Sierra Club Green Home
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Sierra Club Green Home is an environmental website affiliated with Sierra Club
. Launched in 2009, the Sierra Club Green Home website provides consumers who are interested in living green with information such as contact information with green providers in their neighborhoods, video tutorials, educational articles, and an accurate carbon dioxide calculator.
Executive Director Carl Pope
set out to “green” his home and discovered a problem: even for him, this wasn’t so simple. Plenty of information was available, but widely disparate and sometimes conflicting sources made things confusing. When he met with some top donors, the idea of Sierra Club launching a special website sierraclubgreenhome.com to address this problem seemed like a good solution.
Sierra Club Green Home (SCGH) was developed to help Americans make their homes more energy-efficient, environmentally more sustainable and healthier. They do not sell products or services.
While their education contains some fairly sophisticated content, SCGH focuses primarily on “non-green” and “newly green” citizens. Research indicates the vast majority of Americans are not taking even simple steps to reduce their impact — things like installing CFL
s, turning off the water when brushing teeth, recycling cans, bottles and newspapers, or looking for organic produce options. They believe this is where SCGH can have the greatest benefit, by influencing people to take those simple first steps to practice environmental responsibility at home.
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
. Launched in 2009, the Sierra Club Green Home website provides consumers who are interested in living green with information such as contact information with green providers in their neighborhoods, video tutorials, educational articles, and an accurate carbon dioxide calculator.
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The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
Executive Director Carl Pope
Carl Pope
Carl Pope is the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892. Pope was appointed to his position as Executive Director in 1992, and served until January 20, 2010, when he was succeeded by Michael Brune...
set out to “green” his home and discovered a problem: even for him, this wasn’t so simple. Plenty of information was available, but widely disparate and sometimes conflicting sources made things confusing. When he met with some top donors, the idea of Sierra Club launching a special website sierraclubgreenhome.com to address this problem seemed like a good solution.
Sierra Club Green Home (SCGH) was developed to help Americans make their homes more energy-efficient, environmentally more sustainable and healthier. They do not sell products or services.
While their education contains some fairly sophisticated content, SCGH focuses primarily on “non-green” and “newly green” citizens. Research indicates the vast majority of Americans are not taking even simple steps to reduce their impact — things like installing CFL
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s, turning off the water when brushing teeth, recycling cans, bottles and newspapers, or looking for organic produce options. They believe this is where SCGH can have the greatest benefit, by influencing people to take those simple first steps to practice environmental responsibility at home.