Sunday, January 31, 1999

Sierra Club opens local office

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BY BEN L. KAUFMAN
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        The Sierra Club has arrived in Cincinnati.

        The national environmental group will focus on urban sprawl, air pollution, flooding and other related issues in Greater Cincinnati, an official said.

        The group's arrival comes four months after Sierra Club environmentalists ranked Cincinnati fourth among the top 10 U.S. cities with the worst urban sprawl. Atlanta was first; St. Louis was second; and Washington, D.C., was third-worst.

        Los Angeles did not appear on the list, although it was cited as the “granddaddy of sprawl.”

        The group will operate at 309 Ludlow Ave., next to the Clifton firehouse. It will be staffed by Glen Brand, director and conservation organizer. The former Greenpeace executive is responsible for the group's environmental public education campaign.

        His initial project will involve further research into the costs — social, political, eco nomic and environmental — of Tristate sprawl.

        Immediate examples include western Hamilton County and the Eastern Corridor, he said.

        Sierra Club state lobbyists are working on sprawl issues in Columbus. Mr. Brand said his agenda “dovetails neatly” with the Cincinnati-area chapter.

        Mr. Brand said his satellite office — one of 35 — is funded with a grant to the national organization, based in San Francisco, and involves “no local money whatsoever.”

       

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