Conservation Blog Category

What does turning off the lights when you leave the room, have to do with preserving wild spaces?  Everything.  Here’s why. California has adopted very aggressive decarbonization goals:  to abandon all fossil fuels and to meet...

Trash floats along the Cabrillo Beach breakwater by Paddle Out Plastic With every launch of my kayak, I wonder, “Will this be the morning I don’t find any plastic litter?”  But each time out I retrieve hundreds, and...

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The Angeles Chapter staff has committed to organizing a book club that focuses on themes centered on Environmental Social Justice. Our intention is to create a space where individuals from all ages and backgrounds can come together to read and...

Deserts surrounding Los Angeles: When the name Los Angeles is heard, people from outside southern California immediately see images of smog, traffic, museums, and social problems. Those of us who live here, know better. Los Angeles County includes...

That is the Question: Should western Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) receive legal protection in California?  Joshua Tree by Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0) In September 2020, western Joshua trees were granted candidate status under...

WatCom tours MWD/ LA Sanitation Recycled Water Pilot Project, March 2020 before shutdown. Dear Reader,   This March we celebrate water to coincide with World Water Day, March 22nd. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness...

GIS Committee Maps for Angeles Chapter Water Committee The GIS and Water Committee first partnered up many years ago on the Water Conservation Measures Scorecard project, then on a map of  California Lakes and WaterWays. Recently several maps...

The Sierra Club California Water Committee is an issue committee that reports to the California Conservation Committee, the organization that sets Sierra Club's environmental policy for the State of California. Thus the State Water Committee is...

The people behind the Poseidon project feel Orange County residents do not pay enough for water. They feel that residents can and should pay. They see a potential profit in  each glass of water, each shower and each toilet flush.  Their...