Get a great start on your weekend by planting trees in Oakland! Volunteers from the San Francisco Bay Chapter have been helping Oakland continue its public tree-planting program since early 2010. We have planted over 600 trees so far, and we intend to plant hundreds more this year.
What: planting trees that Oakland homeowners have requested. The Sierra Club delivers the trees from a nursery to each front yard or driveway, so that the tree is waiting to be planted along the sidewalk.
Who: you and your friends. No experience is needed, and people who aren’t Sierra Club members are also welcome. We will organize you into teams of three or four, including at least one experienced planter who can teach the newbies. You should be able to lift 30 pounds (half of the weight of a new tree). Wear closed-toed shoes, clothes that you won’t mind getting dirty, and a hat for sun protection; bring water and a snack. We provide the shovels, picks, brooms, and gloves.
How: dig a hole, remove the tree from its pot and put it into the ground, restore the soil around the roots, and sweep the sidewalk clean. Most teams can plant 3 – 5 trees in four hours. Other Sierra Club volunteers will do the follow-up work, such as installing steel stakes to help the young trees stay upright.
Where: the trees may be anywhere in Oakland, but we meet first to organize into teams, distribute the tools, and go to the planting sites. We generally meet in north Oakland at 627 62nd St. (at Shattuck Ave, near Ashby BART), but please check with us to confirm. You can bike or walk to the meeting place, but some planting sites are far away, so that we also need drivers willing to carry people and tools in their cars.
When: Saturday mornings, 9 am to 1 pm, through next June. Join us for one Saturday or as often as you like. Teams will leave the meeting place shortly after 9. If it is raining heavily, we won’t plant on that day.
For more information or to join our mailing list of planters, contact Tree Team lead Arthur Boone at arboone3@gmail.com or (510)910-6451.
Jesse Swanhuyser, chair of the Sierra Club's International Trade Committee, explains the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the serious threat embedded in secretive provisions giving foreign corporations the right to sue to overturn local, state and federal laws protecting the environment and public health. You will find out what you can do to fix the TPP before it is ratified by the Senate later this year.
Please join us for our first Maryland Beyond Coal Campaign general body meeting of the summer! We will be getting the low down on the progress of the campaign and where we would like to go, fill leadership roles and plan the next 6 months of this campaign. Please join us! It's the best way to get involved!
Food and drinks will be served!
Who: All interested in working on the MD Beyond Coal Team
Please join us for our first Maryland Beyond Coal Campaign general body meeting of the summer at Chris Yoder's House! We will be getting the low down on the progress of the campaign and where we would like to go, fill leadership roles and plan the next 6 months of this campaign. Please join us! It's the best way to get involved!
Food and drinks will be served!
Who: All interested in working on the MD Beyond Coal Team
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