Kathleen Chambers

The Sierra Club has opened up applications for the second year of the wildly popular “Best Internship on Earth” for the summer of 2011. Students and recent graduates around the country are vying to spend the summer as the Sierra Club's Youth Outdoors Ambassador, hiking, ...read more

Jeremy Jones, widely regarded as the best big-mountain snowboarder on the planet, now climbs his way to the top instead of using helicopters, snow cats or chairlifts. In the featured article, “Higher, Deeper,” Jones shares his desire to ascend slowly for a richer experience and ...read more

SIERRA’s fourth annual list of greenest schools keeps up the competitive pressure on universities to push the sustainability envelope as we present this year’s valedictorian Vermont’s Green Mountain College and the top 100 greenest schools. “From the New York Times to the ...read more

SIERRA magazine is ranked number one out of 213 magazines that reach “influentials,” according to Mediamark Research, Inc.’s 2010 Spring syndicated study. Influentials are Americans who are politically and socially active, well-informed and trusted for their opinion on a variety ...read more

The Sierra Club and The North Face have announced that Evan Geary is the winner of the wildly popular “Best Internship on Earth” challenge, designed to increase awareness and benefits around connecting young adults with the outdoors. The internship comes with a stipend, ...read more

For elite through-hikers like Andrew Skurka, Roman Dial, and Demetri “Coup” Coupounas, thousand-mile walks have become so easy and fun that they’ve made the pastime a kind of competitive endurance sport, seeing who can move the farthest the fastest, all while carrying the least. ...read more

The Sierra Club, Appalachian Citizens Law Center and Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, joined by outdoor enthusiasts and paddlers, are challenging a permit submitted by Cambrian Coal Corporation that would allow for a new surface coal mine near Elkhorn Creek in Pike County. ...read more

The June Sierra Club TRAILS photo contest is now open and the theme is “wild!” You won’t get lost if you join the Monthly Photo Contest on TRAILS and enter to win a SPOT II Satellite GPS Messenger plus 12 months basic and track progress service ($319.97 value). Individuals can ...read more

SIERRA magazine and the Sierra Club are staunch supporters of the paddlesports industry by publishing the Annual Paddling Issue, completely devoted to paddlesports of all kinds. This May/June issue once again features the Annual Paddling Section, written by Darren Bush of ...read more

Washington, D.C. - On April 16th, the White House kicked off a new initiative aimed at changing the way America's public lands are managed. Sierra Club is calling on the Obama administration to use the initiative as an opportunity to address two key challenges: Introducing more ...read more

San Francisco, CA – "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."- John Muir On the eve of the 40th Earth Day, the Sierra Club welcomes everyone to celebrate the 172nd birthday of founder ...read more

Eco-Heroes Go Mobile: Sierra Club Launched First iPhone App for Earth Day San Francisco, CA: As part of the lead-up to the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Sierra Club is launching its first iPhone application to give users the ability to become an "Eco Hero" by pledging to do ...read more

SIERRA magazine is pleased to announce that Steve Hawk, who has served as temporary Managing Editor and Acting Deputy Editor of SIERRA magazine for the past year, has been promoted to Executive Editor. Steve is a consummate magazine professional. He put in nine years as editor of ...read more

The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and oldest environmental advocacy group, has named Michael Brune to its top leadership role. Brune is a longtime environmental organizer who has headed the Rainforest Action Network for the last seven years. “The Sierra Club has evolved in ...read more

Today, more than ever before, people are looking to each other for recommendations to help their decisions on everything, such as what to buy, where to vacation, which trails to hike, how to generate action-oriented buzz and to simply stay in touch. Sierra Club, the oldest, ...read more

(San Francisco, CA) Small changes in climate have a big impact on winter destinations. In the featured story of SIERRA magazine’s November/December issue “Winter Tracks,” Peter Frick-Wright attempts to enjoy a near-zero-emissions winter vacation by shunning cars and riding ...read more

This past weekend, Sierra Club activists from around the country hosted more than 700 parties to watch the new Ken Burns documentary series, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. After watching a one-hour preview of the new series, party attendees wrote letters to Interior ...read more

San Francisco, CA – SIERRA magazine, the bimonthly publication of the Sierra Club, is proud to announce three new additions to its advertising team. With the arrival of a new editor-in-chief Bob Sipchen two year ago, SIERRA has experienced substantial and dynamic editorial and ...read more