Sierra Club History. 4 Touchstones individuals who help explain how we got to where we are today David Brower Newt Gingrich James Watt John Muir.

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Sierra Club History

4 Touchstones individuals who help explain how we got to where we are today David Brower Newt Gingrich James Watt John Muir

Sierra Club Founded Farmer, Inventor, Author “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” -- John Muir, 1911

John Muir “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” -- John Muir, 1901 World Traveller, Educator, Conservationist, Naturalist

Membership Growth YEARMEMBERS today John Muir founds Sierra Club in 1892

David Brower SC Executive Director Climber, Author, Publisher

David Brower SC Board Member 3x Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Friends of the Earth & Earth Island Institute Founder

David Brower New York Times Ad

David Brower SC loses tax-exempt status in 1966 due to excessive legislative/lobbying work SC DC office opens SC Council created SC campaign to keep dams out of the Grand Canyon

Membership Growth YEARMEMBERS , , , today John Muir founds Sierra Club in ’s - David Brower becomes the Club’s first Exec. Director, creates modern Sierra Club

James Watt Secretary of Interior Reagan Administration

James Watt Club gathers over 1 Million Signatures on the Watt Petition asking for James Watt’s resignation Secty of the Interior Gale Norton’s mentor

Membership Growth YEARMEMBERS , , , , , , , today John Muir founds Sierra Club in ’s - David Brower becomes the Club’s first Exec. Director, creates modern Sierra Club James Watt appointed Secty of the Interior

Newt Gingrich Lecturer, Reporter, Author Time Man of the Year The key strategist and leader behind the1994 Republican victory, which created the first GOP majority in Congress in forty years, and the 1996 and 1998 victories that retained that majority for the first time in 74 years. Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation, and the first tax cuts in sixteen years.

Newt Gingrich Speaker of the House Contract with America (a Polluter’s Bill of Rights) A sweeping attempt to remake the way government functions included provisions that would indirectly undermine the foundation of environmental, health and safety protections.

Membership Growth YEARMEMBERS , , , , , , , ,000 today700,000 John Muir founds Sierra Club in ’s - David Brower becomes the Club’s first Exec. Director, creates modern Sierra Club James Watt appointed Secty of the Interior Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House

Change In Approach Citizen Lobbyists Write a letter to or meet with your member of Congress! SC Approach

Change in Approach 500,000 SC members isn’t enough people to influence law makers when compared to a US population of 250 Million! Taking it to the people Write a letter to the editor of the paper and influence the public in the community!

Change in Approach Create Demand Hold Individuals Accountable Take Delivery “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them...” -- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist orator 1857

Change in Approach Sierra Club Mission Statement Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth. Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources. Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment. Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.