What we’re about
Sierra Club is a national organization dedicated to explore, enjoy and protect the planet. This group is for anyone looking for outdoor activities, environmental programs and education and ways to make our community greener! Virtually all are FREE and open to everyone - you do not need to be a Sierra Club member to participate.
The Sierra Club groups of the Greater Tampa Bay Florida area includes the Suncoast Sierra Club group (serving Pinellas and Western Pasco & Western Hernando Counties) and the Tampa Bay Sierra Club (serving Hillsborough and Eastern Pasco & Eastern Hernando Counties) as well as our Tampa Bay ICO, Inspiring Connections Outdoors via Youth Outings for Pinellas and Hillsborough. With several thousand members, our local groups organize and participates in outdoor adventures, environmental education and public awareness, youth outings, environmental activism and lobbying of our local and state government for pro-environmental legislation.
For more information, please visit:
Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club outings calendar
Suncoast Sierra Club Facebook Page
Tampa Bay Sierra Club Facebook Page
Tampa Bay ICO (Inspiring Connections Outdoors via Youth Outings)
For the Sierra Club of Manatee/Sarasota Meet Up: http://www.meetup.com/Manatee-Sarasota-Sier...
To stay up to date on the Sierra Club Florida Healthy Air Campaign including our work on improving local public transportation please like: Florida Healthy Air Campaign
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Tampa Bay Group - A discussion of Tampa Bay National Wildlife RefugesNeeds location
Our speaker is Dave Howard. He will talk about the National Wildlife Refuges in the Tampa Bay area. He works for Friends of the Tampa Bay NWR. He is a Florida Master Naturalist and has been a Friends board member/volunteer for over 20 years. He will talk about the history and mission of The Friends of the Tampa Bay NWR. There will be a slide presentation.
Program: 7:00 pm
Socialize: 6:45 pm
Join us via Google Meet (meet.google.com/bfc-bzgo-cja)
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| - Sierra Club Adventure Coast Group May 14 Meet Up with Dr. Rene Weisner BrownBrooksville Women's Club, Brooksville, FL
Join us for the May 14th Sierra Club Adventure Coast Group Meet Up. 6:30 social, 7- 8pm guest presentation at the GFWC Historic Brooksville Womans Club, 131 South Main Street in Brooksville. Public welcome! Bring a friend.
Dr. René Wiesner Brown wlll speak on From Local to Global: Coastal Restoration and Resilience. She’ll describe Ecosphere Restoration Institute’s coastal habitat restoration and resiliency projects in Tampa Bay and across Florida. René will explain the benefits of living shorelines and how Ecosphere’s living shorelines held up through Hurricanes Helene and Milton. René will also discuss her role as a member of the Expert Review Group of the United Nations Race to Resilience and how local projects contribute to global goals.
Dr. René Wiesner Brown is the Senior Director of Habitat Restoration of the nonprofit Ecosphere Restoration Institute. She is an appointed member of the Expert Review Group of the UN Race to Resilience and a Civil Society Observer of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She is also Chair of the Florida Wildlife Federation and a founding Board Member and current Vice President of the Tampa Bay Conservancy. René earned her doctorate in Integrative Biology from the University of South Florida and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She has been a Sierra Club member for 25 years.
To participate remotely via Zoom, please register in advance at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/aTd27kxRRZiOfjOgWeXBow
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For more information, check out our website at www.sierraclub.org/florida/adventure-coast, emailsierraclubadventurecoastcc@gmail.com or call 352 277-3330. Find us on Facebook.
