The Sierra Club is twenty times bigger than the Tea Party (Happy Earth Day)

[Kolesar]

And happy birthday to John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892. He was born on April 21, 1838.

http://patchworknation.csmonitor.com/csmstaff/2010/0421/tea-party-how-big-is-it-and-where-is-it-based

Tea party: How big is it, and where is it based?
by Dante Chinni

If you turned to a cable news channel in recent weeks, you may have seen a large group of “tea party” protesters, signs in hand, expressing outrage over government tyranny.

But how big are those groups really? The tea-party protest on tax day in Washington, D.C., may have looked big on camera, but pan back, and you would have seen about 3,000 to 4,000 people in attendance. That’s hardly a groundswell.

To get an understanding of how big the loosely affiliated movement is and where it’s based, Patchwork Nation has combed through online directories to find people who have registered with tea-party organizations - not a perfect system but one that captures the overwhelming majority of registered members.

The geographic snapshot: There are roughly 67,000 members in counties across America, ...

http://sierraclub.org /

Who is the Sierra Club?

The Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Inspired by nature, we are 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors, working together to protect our communities and the planet.

Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. We are the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. And our founder, John Muir, appears on the back of the California quarter.


cross posted from the Energy and Environment forum

[Kolesar]

1. There is a tea bagger here on the forum to unrec this thread

Or as they are also known: "republicans"

[Motown_Johnny]

2. Kicking, but it isn't earth day yet

got about 75 minutes to go here in the eastern time zone

[johnaries]

3. Yeah, but we had one HELL of a celebration here in Nashville

last Saturday. It was HUGE, and it was AWESOME!

Every day is Earth Day.

[XemaSab]

4. And Sierra Club members are 1/20th as involved

n/t

[EFerrari]

5. K&R