For its efforts to be a national leader in campus sustainability, ASU was named one of the top 20 " cool schools " by the Sierra Club, was named to the " Green Honor Roll " by the Princeton Review, and earned an " A -" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the National Park Service.

" Muir and the Sierra Club vehemently opposed the damning of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite in order to provide water to the city of San Francisco.

The Hetch Hetchy dam was finished in 1923 and is still in operation, but the Sierra Club still wants to tear it down.

Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

" by former Sierra Club President, Adam Werbach, who argued for the evolution of environmentalism into a more expansive, relevant and powerful progressive politics.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

As members of the Sierra Club Canada, they were frustrated by the lack of action by the organization.

The idea ended up in the press and was linked to The Sierra Club.

* 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

* Stephen H. Schneider ( 1989 ), Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century ?, Sierra Club Books ; October 1989

* Stephen H. Schneider, Randi Londer ( 1984 ), Coevolution of Climate and Life, Sierra Club Books ; May 1984

* May 28 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

The IFC approved a $ 90 million loan in 2007 for the upgrading of a slaughterhouse facility in the Amazon region owned by Brazil's biggest beef producer Bertin, despite opposition from local NGOs, the Sierra Club, and the advisement against by the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group.

Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in the United States by David Brower after his split with the Sierra Club based in part on their reluctance to challenge the construction of nuclear power plants.

Examples include local chapter meetings of organizations like the Sierra Club.

Launched in 2006 by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, BGA has since grown to include the Communications Workers of America ( CWA ), Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ), Service Employees International Union ( SEIU ), National Wildlife Federation ( NWF ), Utility Workers Union of America ( UWUA ), Union of Concerned Scientists ( UCS ), American Federation of Teachers ( AFT ), Amalgamated Transit Union ( ATU ), United Auto Workers ( UAW ), and the United Food and Commercial Workers ( UFCW ).

John Muir founded the Sierra Club, one of the largest conservation organizations in the United States.

He founded the Sierra Club and remains an icon of the environmentalist movement.

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the Federal Government.

The Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club has a Mule Pack Section that organizes hiking trips with supplies carried by mules.

That policy statement did not deter Nigeria under Generals Ibrahim Babangida in 1990 and Sani Abacha in 1997 from sending ECOMOG peacekeeping forces under the auspices of ECOWAS into Liberia and later Sierra Leone when civil wars broke out in those countries.

They did prodigious work building the line over and through the Sierra Nevada mountains and across Nevada to the meeting in Utah.

Five million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was an eroded set of rolling hills and Mono Basin and Owens Valley did not yet exist.

The Central Pacific Railroad, facing a labor shortage in the more sparsely-settled West, relied on Chinese laborers who did prodigious work building the line over and through the Sierra Nevada mountains and then across Nevada to their meeting in northern Utah.

However, the agreement did not last and the Sierra Leone Civil War continued for two more years.

He was frustrated by the adventure games that Sierra On-Line was releasing at the time, and later said that " you died any time you did anything wrong ".

Ford started production of the Sierra in 1984, replacing the Taunus definitely in 1985 and continuing production until 1993, without ever updating its styling as Europe did.

In the introduction, he says that the piece can be seen as a kind of exploration of his experiences in Sierra Leone as an operative for MI6 during World War II, drawing from his experiences almost directly for the work ( such as the smuggled Portuguese letter found on a ship, which he did not allow to pass as in the book, but instead radioed up London asking " What was it all for?

In other markets, particularly Asia and Australasia, it was replaced by the Mazda 626-based Ford Telstar, though Ford New Zealand did import British-made CKD kits of the Ford Sierra estate for local assembly from 1984.

The Cortina wagon had continued on after the sedan was replaced in 1983 by the Mazda-made 626-based Telstar instead of the European Sierra ; Sierra wagons did, however, replace the long-serving ' Cortinny ' wagon in Kiwi assembly.

Fela Kuti began performing in 1961, but did not start playing in his distinctive Afrobeat style until his exposure to Sierra Leonean Afro-soul singer Geraldo Pino in 1963.

After returning home again in 1987 his career did not pick up again until a competitive third placing at the 1988 Bathurst 1000 saw him signed up as full time number two driver to Tony Longhurst in his Ford Sierra team, which was brutally fast but disappointingly fragile and results were again elusive.

There is proof Renzi was living in Arizona after college because, Renzi and his wife did had several children who were born in Sierra Vista, AZ.

Although likely confounded with vegetation characteristics, California spotted owl nests did not occur on sites with southern aspects in foothill riparian and oak woodlands in the southern Sierra Nevada.

California spotted owls did not select areas with greater canopy cover at the patch scale (≥ 5 acres, 2 ha ) as consistently for foraging as they did for roosting in the Sierra Nevada.

However, just nine years later, the 1937 standardized seal once again featured a widened gap of Golden Gate proportions, although it did keep Rowe's snow-capped Sierra Nevada that had replaced the barren foothills of previous editions of the seal.

Stephen Rapp, the Special Court for Sierra Leone's current Prosecutor, noted in a recent interview that DNA tests on the remains found in Lofa County did not match Johnny Paul Koroma's DNA.

In 1770, there were an estimated 500 Lake Miwok, 1, 500 Coast Miwok, and 9, 000 Plains and Sierra Miwok, totaling about 11, 000 people, according to historian Alfred L. Kroeber, although this may be a serious undercount ; for example, he did not identify the Bay Miwok.

Though they did not immediately continue working on the franchise ( Sierra Entertainment, the game's publisher, owned the rights ), the game did have a spin-off, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra.