The Sierra Club as an Interest Group The Sierra Club is a national organization dedicated to the preservation of the environment. Founded in 1892 in California by conservationist John Muir, the Club is made up of 750,000 people devoted to the exploration, enjoyment, and the protection of the natural environmental. Headquartered in San Francisco, it has numerous state and regional chapters taking part in the fight for protection. According to Janda, an important part of pluralism was that
The Sierra Club Foundation. He later went on to establish, among many others, the Friends of Earth (FOE) in 1969 and the Earth Island Institute in 1982. It was his dream to preserve the environment, not only for his descendants but for future generations. This dream was inspired by the work of John Muir (1838-1914), an environmentalist and Scottish-born American naturalist who was the founder of The Sierra Club (not to be confused with The Sierra Club Foundation) in 1862. The Sierra Club
this day, a war rages on between environmentalists and those who seek to profit from developing on areas of wilderness. One notorious battle in that war was the case of Sierra Club v. Morton. In that court case, the Walt Disney Company sought to build a ski resort on a glacial valley in California known as Mineral King Valley. Sierra argued that the result of the development proposal would be “irreparable harm to the public interest”. As the plaintiffs did not establish how human beings would be harmed
" First off two Club members in page, AZ quit the club over the Lake Powell proposal" (www.glencanyon.net/club). The writer thinks that the board is wrong to propose such an idea "Lake Powell violated the club's policy that major decisions should start at the ground and work their way up" (www.glencanyon.net/club). The author seems to want to clear guilt of the proposal from the club members. The author's point of view seems to be of someone who is involved in the Sierra Club organization itself
Ansel Adams On February 20, 1902 Ansel Easton Adams was born in San Francisco, California. He was the only child of Charles and Olive Adams. Ansel, originally trained as a classic pianist, would later abandon his first love, music, for photography. Ansel Adams became America's most talented and beloved landscape photographer. In 1908, Ansel started school. He was a poor student and hated going to school. In 1915, Charles Adams took his son out of school and had him privately tutored. Charles
The Sierra Club is a perfect example of Arendt’s philosophy of encouraging individuals and the organizations they comprise to follow their own ideologies in contrast to following the mass “The term masses applies only when we deal with people who either because
society, many voices go unheard. Our society struggles to break free from the problems it presents to us. Problems such as the environment, human rights, animal rights, and peace among nations continue to exist. Organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and Amnesty are 3 of the biggest associations to help fight and put a cease to the world’s troubles. Greenpeace is a non-profit organization, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Greenpeace exists because
in 1902 in San Francisco (Sierra Club). In 1906, Ansel was injured due to aftershock from the earthquake. He was homeschooled and “spent his childhood days playing in the sand dunes beyond the Golden Gates where he gained an appreciation for nature, which would become his primary source of photographic inspiration” (Sierra Club). Adams later began working at the Club’s LeConte Memorial Lodge. This resulted in him participating in the Club’s annual outing in 1927. The Club is supposedly where Ansel’s
Gulf of Mexico, crossed to Cuba and then to Panama, crossed the isthmus and sailed boat on the west coast, arriving in San Francisco in March 1868. Since then, although travel around the world, California became his favorite ground. The mountains of Sierra Nevada in California and Yosemite captivated him. In 1880 he married Louie Wanda Strentzel and moved to Martinez, California, where they raised their daughters, Wanda and Helen. Getting used to domestic life, Muir was associated with Louie’s father
Ansel Adams, one of the most well-known landscape photographers, was born on February 20th, 1902 in San Francisco, California. Adams was an only child raised by his parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray, but had a much more influential, supportive, and encouraged relationship with his father. As a child, Adams had issues fitting in with his classmates at school due to his “[n]atural shyness and a certain intensity of genius” as well as having a busted, broken nose due to the fall he had
political institutions Edited by: Anne N. Constain and Andrew S. Mc Farland (1948) * Let people judge: wise use and the private property rights movement Edited by John Echeverria and Raymond Booth Eby (1995) * Flyer: John Muir Exhabit Sierra Club (unknown Writer) (2004) * The "Underclass" debate : views from history Written by: Michael b. Katz (1939)
its formative years and would influence elected and appointed officials for years to come. His double within the preservationist movement was the prolific nature writer John Muir. Where Pinchot had his government posts to affect change, Muir’s Sierra Club and his eloquent articles influenced eastern representatives and brought his philosophy to the masses. Gifford Pinchot was born into a wealthy family, who had made their money in the business world of New York City. With the political...
Draining Lake Powell This paper explores the fight between draining Lake Powell and keeping it as is. It discusses the gains and the losses due to environmental, economical, and political issues. The bibliography uses sources from public interest publications, environmental organizations newsletters, and government publications to give many sides of the argument and many issues dealing with the subject matter. REFERENCES AND ANNOTATIONS Chattergee, Sumana. “Hill gives energy-water added
After he wrote about glaciers he found out sheep (witch muir called the “hoofed locust”) were destroying the sierra. he (with help from theodore roosevelt and a three night camping trip) made yosemite a national park. That then kept the sheep off of the national park. Witch in a chain of events made the sawmill go out of business so muir got his revenge too.
The conflict perspective is very apparent in modern day issues affecting the environment. Environmental groups, both government and non-government based like The Sierra Club and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) are often at odds with industries with conflicting goals such as logging and oil industries. The industries want their right to manufacture products from natural resources, while environmental groups want to protect and preserve these limited natural resources. For example, conservationist
or social behavior, and driven by the desire to create change to make something better. Growing as common goals align between different people and organizations with a singular goal that combine to champion a cause to make something better. The Sierra Club is the largest environmental grassroots movement in the world, with a focus on preserving the environment through recreation, education, and conservation of natural habitats, and resources. It began with a few friends from the University of California
Some of the causes they are working for are: business, banking, labor, environment, women, seniors, the economy, and farming just to name a few. Some groups or businesses which partake in lobbying are: N.O.W., Green Peace, AFL-CIO, Teamsters, Sierra Club, N.R.A., Tobacco industry and the ACLU. These groups often work at the national, state, and local levels attempting to influence government policy. Many groups have permanent offices in Washington DC. The primary goals of these groups are the passing
with China’s Three Gorges Dam Project The Three Gorges Project continues to leave a wake of environmental and social transgressions. An assortment of activists and over 45 international groups, including the International Rivers Network and Sierra Club, have fought the project and all its detrimental attributes (Lammers 1). But because of the predetermination of its construction, certain consequences associated with the Three Gorges Dam are inevitable, especially those resulting from the inundation
Heroes and the Journey Home A hero is someone who works to change things toward a certain ideal or succeeds in making change, usually to the benefit of many others besides him or herself. Heroes come in just about every form and almost every group or cause has its heroes. One of the definitions for a hero is that they are someone who is "admired for qualities and achievements and is regarded as an ideal or model."(New World Dictionary, 657) There have been many men and women who I consider to
Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, "The Land Ethic," in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical. (Although originally published in 1949, Sand County Almanac became widely available in 1970 in a special Sierra Club/Ballantine edition, which included essays from a second book, Round River. Most academic activity in the 1970s was spent debating the Lynn White thesis and the tragedy of the commons. These debates were primarily historical, theological, and