Read about the Bay Chapter's efforts to fight back against the polluting fossil fuel industry and promote the spread of clean-energy solutions right here at home.
By one estimate, the Bay Area will be home to an additional two million new residents by 2040. The Bay Chapter works to reduce our collective impact on the earth and preserve natural resources for future generations by promoting sustainable communities.
Parks — from our great wild national parks to little slivers of green in the city — are essential for both wildlife and for human welfare. The Bay Chapter campaigns to secure funding for the acquisition, improvement, and maintenance of our public lands; and to make sure that our public lands are used in ways consistent with our environmental principles.
It's a fact that low-income and minority communities bear a disproportionate share of the impacts of environmental degradation. The Bay Chapter works in partnership with impacted communities to fight for a system that protects and empowers each individual citizen. Our goal is to ensure that everyone has access to clean air, water, and nature — no matter their race or socioeconomic status.
The Bay Chapter works to protect the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — the watershed at the heart of the Bay Area — as well as on smaller local watersheds, both wild and urban. We also work to protect and restore rivers and watersheds throughout California. In the face of our current drought and global climate disruption, we also focus on water conservation and regional solutions to improve water security.
In the urbanized Bay Area, how much of the "wild" do we have? Actually quite a lot. Over the Bay Chapter’s 90-year history we’ve played a major role in campaigns to preserve our world-renowned wild places and establish the laws that protect our natural heritage. The work of protecting and expanding access to our wild spaces continues to this day.