[Sustain] Sierra and PIRG Chapter Autonomy

[Eric Brooks]

Local Sierra Club chapters are democratically run and very autonomous.

However PIRG chapters, and their spin-offs like Environment California, 
are part of a hierarchy that is run from the top (with the exception of 
New York, which broke off and became autonomous decades ago).

Eric B

anniegarrison at mac.com wrote:
> http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf060810.htm
>
> It does seem that Illinois---but not the Sierra Club----bid $80 for 
> this clean coal business, against Ohio and Kentucky, the other members 
> of the Peabody Coal Triangle.
>
> And, like I said, I found one town in Illinois where the local Sierra 
> Club was celebrating its choice of clean coal as a global warming 
> solution.  One town.
>
> Aren't local Sierra Clubs, like PIRG organizations, more or less free 
> to go off on their own locally?
>
> And Mary Ratcliff and Ahimsa do seem to disagree with you, John, about 
> this, so you might want to get in touch with them.
>
> And, like I said, they seem to be on the right side in the Four Corners.
>
> I'm not arguing; I'm really asking people to help me with more info 
> than I have.   I think we're all in agreement about this disgusting 
> Apollo Alliance.
>
> I'd like some more info as to what to make of the Environmental 
> Defense Fund, which John McCain sent me a fundraising letter for, 
> trying to sell me a canvas bag for a membership.
>
> One thing clear to me is that anything with the term "Gen" in it is 
> some sort of federally sponsored evil.  ---A.G.
>