Larry Fahn
Environmental Advocate, Attorney, and Activist.
2015 Sierra Club Ballot Statement
Sierra Club Leadership Positions
Club President, (2003-2005); VP Conservation, (2001-2003); Fifth Officer, (2000-2001); Board Member, (1999-2005), (2008-2014); Delegate UN Climate Talks Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, (2009-2011); SF Bay PolCom (1984-2000); Chair, (1988-1992); Marin Group ExCom (1981-1999); Chair, (1986-1992). Partial List.
Other Leadership Positions
Executive Director, As You Sow, (1997-2009); President, As You Sow, (2010-2012); Current Advisory Boards—Restore Hetch Hetchy; Project Coyote; Friends of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area; As You Sow.
My first Board run in 1999 was at the urging of my friend and mentor Ed Wayburn, and with support from legendary David Brower, Senator Barbara Boxer, and seven former Club Presidents. Pledging to end the divisiveness plaguing the Board and move us forward on our political and environmental priorities was the goal. That pledge was met. As Club President, I spoke in thirty states spreading our message and promoting priority campaigns. I proudly presided over the formation of our newest chapter in Puerto Rico, and spoke at the March for Women's Lives, a gathering of more than a million people on the National Mall. More recently, I was a Club Delegate to UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen, Cancun, and Durban.
Our goals and political challenges are more daunting than ever! With your support, I'll work tirelessly to help accomplish our most pressing needs:
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Elect a sympathetic President, and an environmental majority in the House and Senate in 2016.
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Move the needle on climate disruption with victories in the statehouses, the courts, and the court of public opinion, and in the UN.
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Expand our activist base by improving our outstanding Outings program, and allocate greater resources to chapters, local groups, and Sierra Student Coalition.
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Increase public support for renewable energy future, enact more state renewable portfolio standards, and a national carbon fee and dividend program to get us there.
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Restore the Club's historic vigilance, focus, and action on wildlife, wilderness, wetlands, and public lands protection. Press for more national monument designations during the Obama administration's final years.
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Develop more aggresive approaches to confront corporate power and misconduct, including shareholder campaigns and a robust campaign of divestment from fossil fuel companies.
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Make progress on traffic/sprawl/population issues which strangle our nation without alienating the important allies we've developed in the ongoing battle for environmental justice.
If elected, I will bring to the job not only decades of experience on the local, state, national and global levels, but a forward-leaning, get-it-done-now philosophy that mirrors the urgency of the climate crisis.
Vote for experience, commitment, and a bold unifying vision to hold the Sierra Club's rightful place as our nation's pre-eminent and most effective environmental organization.
With Director Michael Dorsey at the Sierra Club Booth at the UN Climate Talks in Durban South Africa 2011.
Larry attends the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen as a Sierra Club Delegate. He met up with a friendly polar bear on the Conference floor. On the big screen in the background President Obama is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. He arrived in Copenhagen the next day.