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Top 10 Things You Can Do This Legislative Session

Find out what you can do to help the Sierra Club these next few months!

1. Find your representative in order to contact them during this Legislative Session. To find your representative please click on this link: http://mdelect.net/electedofficials/

2. Sign-up for action alerts on the Maryland Chapter's Action Alert Page: http://maryland.sierraclub.org/action/

3. Sign-up to volunteer in the Maryland Sierra Club office with phone-banking.  Please call the office at (301) 277-7111 and leave your name, phone number, e-mail address, and issues you would  especially like to work on.  

4. Contact your representatives. Write a personal letter (even handwritten), send a fax or an e-mail, and give them a call!

5. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.  For information about how to write a letter to the editor please visit http://sierraclub.org/dc/sprawl/action/p004.html

6. Lobby your representatives in person. Please refer to “Reminders for General Assembly Visitors: Helpful Hints for 2007 Legislative Session” for information about visiting your representatives: http://www.dgs.maryland.gov/press/2006/010606.htm

7. Sign-up to attend our Environmental Action Days (click here for dates). If you are interested in attending please send an e-mail to maryland@sierraclub.org with the title "Will Attend EAD 2008" and include your name, phone number, e-mail and home addresses.  Also include your county, and if you know it, your legislative district.

8. Organize or attend an Issue Forum.

9. Send in a donation to help support our efforts. Pledges will go towards phone-banking, making copies of letters, fliers, and testimonies, and parking fees. Please make checks out to Sierra Club Maryland Chapter, and mail to:

Sierra Club Maryland Chapter Legislative Committee

Suite 101A

7338 Baltimore Ave.

College Park, MD 20740      

     10.  Invite your friends to get involved with you!