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Top 10 Things You Can Do to Help

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Top 10 Things You Can Do to Help!

Find out what you can do to help the Sierra Club below!

  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.

  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.chapter@sierraclub.org with the title "Will Attend EAD 2009" and include your name, phone number, e-mail and home addresses.  Also include your county, and if you know it, your legislative district.

  8. Write Governor O'Malley at:

    Governor O'Malley
    State House
    Annapolis, MD 21401

    Toll Free Phone: 1-800-811-8336
    Fax: 1-410-974-3275
    Email: governor@gov.state.md.us

  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
    7338 Baltimore Ave, Suite 101A
    College Park, MD 20740

     10.  Invite your friends to get involved with you!

 
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