Welcome
Our Group welcomes anyone who loves the outdoors and wants to meet others with the same love. We welcome anyone who is concerned about the natural environment and wants to learn more. We welcome those who want to help protect our natural heritage by joining in political action. The Pikes Peak Group, currently almost 2,000 members strong, is proud of contributing to that important preservation effort. We are here to help you enjoy, explore, and protect the planet. All of our outings and general meetings are open to the public. Please join us.

Statement of Purpose
To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

Mission
The Sierra Club is a nonprofit member supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions - legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.

Location
The Pikes Peak Regional Group includes all of El Paso county, plus parts of Teller, Park, and Elbert counties in Colorado.

Concert for the Wild with Chuck Pyle

Chuck Pyle will present a concert to benefit the public lands protection work of Central Colorado Wilderness Coalition and Wild Connections. Nicknamed the Zen Cowboy, Chuck lives in Colorado and performs nationwide. (See chuckypyle.com for details.)

His latest CD, Higher Ground: Songs of Colorado, will be available at the concert. For more information, contact John Stansfield at 303-660-5849.

Saturday, June 27 at 7

All Souls Unitarian Church

730 N. Tejon

$15 in advance & for sponsor group members

$18 at the door

Tickets at Poor Richards Bookstore

320 N. Tejon

719-578-0012

How Big is Your Carbon Footprint?

You need to read these articles and then collectively assess the message that they share because ...

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts.”

Why Global Warming Portends A Food Crisis

Climate change fears spiral as warmer seas ‘absorbing less carbon dioxide’

Environment Blamed In Western Tree Deaths

Climate Scientists: It’s Time For ‘Plan B’

Climate Damage Already Irreversible

Global Warming Could Suffocate The Sea

and then there is

Peak oil? Global warming? No, it's 'Boomsday!'

This looks interesting too

Eating Fossil Fuels

We do not have much time. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize. These deadlines are set by nature. Nature is the timekeeper, but we cannot see the clock.

Green Drinks Colorado Springs

Coffee Exchange, 5-7 p.m.

520 S. Tejon St.

Green Drinks is a social networking concept finally making its way to the Springs. Have fun and help plan the Revolution on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. For more information, visit http://greendrinks.org.

Ever wonder where stuff comes from and where it goes?

Have an old computer to get rid of?

Check out Electronics Recycling Center Comes of Age to find out how to do it responsibility.

Find out why ...

The average American consumes over 25 times more resources than the average person from a developing country. That means that a family in a developing country would have to have 75 children to have the same environmental impact as an American family with three children!

Peak to Plains Alliance

Peak to Plains Alliance was formed to showcase some of the most notable locally owned food and agricultural businesses in El Paso County. All of the locations are special because they are owned by people who care about the land, the community, and the preservation of our heritage.

Help Still Needed!

The Pikes Peak Group is currently looking for people to serve as

Fundraising Chair, Programs Chair, Singles

and Recycling Committee members.

We need individuals who can reinvigorate our SC folks, and work with us to find new folks, wanting to address local issues (as well as work with others around the state). Our Fundraising Chair plans and oversees Pikes Peak Group fundraising events.

For more information, call Kirby Hughes at 685-3019 or Jim Lockhart at 385-0045.

Visit the Sierra Club store to purchase Certified Organic, Shade Grown Coffee & Tea.

Please visit the to print the order form

and see the other items we have for sale.

Get information on topics of your choice, join a PPG list.

We currently have PPG local email lists for topics of special interest. All lists have names in the format RMC-PPG-ABC@lists.sierraclub.org, where “ABC” is a particular list identifier. If you are interested in joining one or more of the special interest lists, scroll down the page to the PPG lists, and select “Join or Leave” any of our lists.

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of tides, the folded bud ready for spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after the night and spring after the winter."

– Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

If you have any information you would like to see posted here, or any comments, corrections, or suggestions about the site, please email me.

Last Updated - June 20, 2009