VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT AND REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS

The Sierra Club's Sustainable Planet Strategy Team (SPST) is currently
seeking applications and nominations to fill up to three vacancies on the
Sustainable Consumption Committee (SCC).

Please review the material below regarding the mission, projects,
qualifications and responsibilities of the Sustainable Consumption Committee. If you would
like to apply for membership, send the completed application by February 28,
2007 to:

Tom Wolper, [log in to unmask], with a cc to Michael Beck
[log in to unmask] and Diana Artemis, [log in to unmask]

THE DEADLINE TO RECEIVE COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IS FEBRUARY, 28, 2007.

If you have questions about the work of the Sierra Club Sustainable
Consumption Committee or questions about the SPST nomination process, contact Michael
Beck, [log in to unmask], (818) 246-3661 (24-hour phone number.  If you have
questions about the appointment process, contact Tom Wolper,
[log in to unmask]

MISSION STATEMENT AND GOALS OF THE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION COMMITTEE

The Sierra Club's Sustainable Consumption Committee works to educate club
members and others on the relations between individual, household, and
institutional consumption of natural resources and larger environmental
problems and to promote more environmentally sustainable patterns of consumption.
We believe that consumption must be addressed as an integral aspect of our
efforts to promote clean energy, preserve wilderness, protect human and nonhuman
health, and create sustainable communities.

Our long-term focus is sustainable consumption in three areas: energy use
(especially in homes and transportation), food and agriculture, and forest
products.  Our current campaigns are:

• True Cost of Food (TCOF), which advocates shifting food consumption more
towards organic, locally grown, and plant based. (The latter involves
reducing meat consumption overall, avoiding meat from factory farms i.e. CAFOs, and
substituting grass fed, sustainably raised meat.)

• True (Energy) Cost of Homes (TCOH), to be in place by this April,
advocates sustainable home energy use in heating/cooling, appliances/electronics, and
lighting/misc. (TCOH promotes all levels of commitment from everyday
greening, through repair/remodeling, to buying/renting a low- or zero- energy home.)

Committee priorities include support for Club activists working on
consumption issues in their local communities, education about consumption issues
(emphasizing those that support other Club issues, particularly its priority
Conservation Campaigns), and dissemination of our materials via websites
and Club publications. We also reach out to other organizations concerned about
the link between consumption and environmental destruction.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

1.   Knowledge of and interest in the relations between consumption and
environmental problems, especially relating to energy use (focus on homes
and transportation), food and agriculture, and forest products.

2.   Understanding of the Sierra Club's overall mission and approach to
environmental problems and experience with the Club's chapter and/or group
structure.   Experience with national, regional, and/or local club
campaigns and programs is also very helpful.

3. Willingness and ability to work cooperatively with people holding
differing perspectives on the best strategies for the Club to follow.

4. Sufficient flexibility in time commitments to allow full participation
in this committee.

We invite applicants from all parts of the country, and especially those
with strong local connections and experience, and those with expertise in our
target issue areas (see #1 above).

Sierra Club of Canada members may not apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

1. Participate in monthly conference calls
2. Attend our annual meeting.   (Travel costs will be reimbursed.)
3. Contribute to ongoing committee work via email.
4. Take on at least one additional task. Examples:

• Developing factsheets, writing articles, contributing to our website.
• Collaborating with and/or supporting other Club entities, especially the
Conservation Initiative Committees and the Agriculture Committee, by
helping them with consumption-related aspects of their target issues
• Supporting local Club sustainability committees or local joint projects
with other entities.
•Outreach beyond the Club to organizations, community groups and
educational institutions.

Note: Members are appointed to two year terms, and are limited to no more
than three consecutive two year terms without a year off.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Michael Beck, CA (Co-chair)
Diana Artemis, VA (Co-chair)
Sonya Guram, CO (Budget Mgr.)
Bonnie Lane Webber, NY
David Reister, TN
Kim McCoy, OR

TO APPLY TO THE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION COMMITTEE (SCC)
Send completed form (below) to Tom Wolper, [log in to unmask], with a cc
to Michael Beck [log in to unmask] and Diana Artemis, [log in to unmask]

The Subject of your message should be "SCC Application from (Name)"

PLEASE DELETE ALL TEXT ABOVE THE

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APPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION COMMITTEE (SCC)

1) Name, address, phone(s), e-mail address, and best times & means to reach
you:

2) Sierra Club experience, including length of membership, volunteer
positions held, Sierra Club campaigns worked on.

3) Other relevant experience and qualifications you would bring to the
committee related to the qualifications for the Sustainable Consumption Committee
described above.

4) Why do you want to serve on the Sustainable Consumption Committee?

5) What are your thoughts about the SCC Mission Statement and Goals (see
above), our website, http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption, and our
True Cost of Food (TCOF) website, www.truecostoffood.org. Please also look at
our materials for True (Energy) Cost of Homes (TCOH), currently under
development at http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=103760&ck= Then
click on: “Go to the TCOH web page.”

6) Describe your general availability for conference calls, and regular
e-mail contact.

7) Names, phone, and e-mail addresses of two references, including best
times to reach them.   Please include your chapter chair and/or conservation chair.
(If you do not know one or both of these chairs personally, please provide two
other club leaders as references.)