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The Sierra Club engages volunteers from all different backgrounds, helping them to improve the environment and their communities. One example is a woman by the name of Peggy Scott, who came to her first Sierra Club meeting in March 2007, having heard about a global warming rally that Sierra Club was planning in St. Paul, and wanting to have a local event in the St. Cloud area.
Peggy was new to environmental activism, a non-traditional student at St. Cloud State University with two young children, and a growing concern about climate justice and the international impacts of global warming. With advice and support from Sierra Club staff and other volunteers, she organized a 40-person rally that was featured in the St. Cloud Times in April.
Over the next few months, Peggy got more involved with efforts to promote energy efficiency at the local level and, by August, was leading a group of volunteers in the effort. In this role, she organized a successful tour of 'green' buildings in October, which attracted 25 people to learn about energy efficiency technologies and was, again, covered in the St. Cloud Times.
In January, Mayor Dave Kleis announced that St. Cloud would join 30 other cities in Minnesota in signing on to the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, to reduce global warming pollution at the local level, while encouraging more aggressive state and federal action.
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