Sierra Club of the Lehigh Valley

Come one, Come all! Join us as we celebrate a wonderful experience in urban environmentalism! Funded by TD Green Streets and sponsored by the City of Bethlehem and volunteer organizations, the 100 Trees Project planted one hundred trees in Bethlehem parks on April 30. More than 140 volunteers participated in the planting. Over the summer, the 100 Trees Project sponsored Bethlehem Area Public Library tree story hours and funded new books on trees. There were tree care works

Hi All, We are back to the bridge and we have developed some decent planning and foundation work based on our Spring meetings which many of you attended. The gist of our meeting will be to look at a rough plan of action for creating a working picture, plan and fund-raising strategy for the construction of the bridge. We will look at each aspect of the plan as a group and work toward an agreement on each section. Our goal will be to leave the meeting with a clear and con

On June 23, 2016, LV Sierra Club chair Donald Miles presented, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Chapter and the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club, our support for a Clean Power wind turbine project in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. At an evening meeting of Penn Forest Township, the Sierra Club's support for the wind turbine project was presented to the township zoning board, amidst 300 noisy objectors (most not living near the wind turbine site). The City of Bethlehem has for over 80 year

Saturday, June 4, 2016 saw the second annual "Step Outdoors Lehigh Valley" community event at ArtsQuest's SteelStacks venue in south Bethlehem and LV Sierra Club was there. We joined several dozen Lehigh Valley outdoors organizations in providing informative discussions and outdoor activities to several thousand visitors. As at the May 7 neighborhood festival, LV Sierra Club volunteers engaged families in discussions about free, fun family outings at nearby "easy walking" ven

On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Lehigh Valley Sierra Club joined 20 area non-profit organizations at a South Bethlehem Neighborhood Festival held at Fourth and Hayes Street in Bethlehem. The event, sponsored by the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley and its "Outdoors and Wellness Committee" (of which LV Sierra Club is a member), provided South Bethlehem families with a fun Saturday featuring children's games, free healthy food and beverages, a marionette puppet childre