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The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. This mission of the Sierra Club is to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet. The Headwaters Group of the Sierra Club serves members of Durham, Vance, Person, and Granville Counties. You do not need to live in one of these counties to join our Meetup, and unless specifically noted, you do not need to be a Sierra Club member to attend attend one of our Meetups, events, and/or outings. We welcome anyone and everyone and would love to see you at one of our events!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Help choose neighborhood bike routes (Not Sponsored)W.D Hill Recreation Center, Durham, NC
Neighborhood bike routes, also known as bike boulevards, help residents safely navigate by bicycle to destinations across Durham using local streets with low traffic volumes and speeds. Bicycle Boulevards use signs, pavement markings, and speed and volume management measures to discourage through trips by motor vehicles and create safe, convenient bicycle crossings of busy arterial streets. For more details on the design of bicycle boulevards, see the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Bike Guide.
The City of Durham is beginning Phase II of the design of the neighborhood bike route network. They are having a "pop up" event where the public can talk to planners about the project.
Can't go? You can still participate by taking the survey on the project page.
This event is not sponsored by the Sierra Club.
- Learn about (and comment on) an update to Durham's Bike+Walk Plan (unsponsored)Avila Retreat Center, Durham, NC
Durham is updating the 2017 Bike+Walk Plan. You can learn about the plan from a pre-recorded presentation, comment about where biking and walking could be more safe or more pleasant, "put your mark" on an interactive map, or sign up for the last public session on the Project website.
This event is not sponsored by the Sierra Club.
- Learn about the Top Ten Reasons for Climate HopeNeeds location
Climate Interactive's Executive Director Andrew (Drew) Jones will be sharing his top 10 reasons to be hopeful for the climate. Touching on his experiences attending climate conferences and his conversations with global leaders, his session will include a demonstration of the team’s free, open-source climate simulator, En-ROADS.
This is the monthly meeting of the Sierra Club group in Asheville. If you happen to be in Asheville, it will be at the Reuter Center of UNCA, 300 Campus View Dr, Asheville (Room 102); otherwise you can catch the presetation online on zoom with the link on the WNC Sierra Club page.
A co-founder of Climate Interactive and a research affiliate at MIT Sloan, Jones is an expert on international climate and energy policy, a system dynamics modeler, and a creator of policy simulations. He led the teams at Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan that developed En-ROADS and C-ROADS, two climate simulators used widely to engage global decision-makers. His climate policy work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Trained in modeling through degrees from MIT and Dartmouth College, Jones now teaches systems thinking and climate policy at MIT Sloan, Stanford, and UNC-Chapel Hill.
He co-accepted the ASysT Applied Systems Thinking Prize and the System Dynamics Society’s Applications Award and Dartmouth College’s Ray W. Smith Award. He lives with his family in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.