Conservation Blog Category

Tents propped in Echo Park, Los Angeles John Nilsson all rights reserved Who would think it? Ocean desalination intersecting with affordable housing?- Yet it has, in a little known state government agency called the California Debt Limit...

Water Equity and COVID-  19 or Is Water Inequality A More Apt Description? Health care professionals have reassured the public that you can’t catch COVID-19 from drinking water, but what if you have other worrisome things in your water?...

The late matriarch of Los Angeles environmental groups, Dorothy Green, wrote a book that focuses on Southern California water and water agencies: Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California.    If you live in the city of Los Angeles,...

For many years we have opposed this project through its many iterations. The Peripheral Canal of the 80’s, the Bay Delta Conservation Project of the 00’s, the California WaterFix & Eco Restore Project of the 10’s and now the 20...

http://www.owenslakeproject.com/ This photo was posted in The Lake on April 28, 2016. Many of today’s under-resourced communities have no more access to blue gold (scarce water) than the under-resourced white residents of the Owens...

A Water Quality Gradebook for LA and OC's Drinking Water Hollywood Reservoir, Hollywood, California. A major storage area for LA's fresh water needs. John Nilsson all rights reserved As part of the Sierra Club’s long-standing...

Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation and leader of the #SaveLACougars campaign, gives a talk about coexisting with mountain lions in the second largest city in the country, and the stories of some...

When I began as a Sierra Club activist in 1992, working to protect the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach, the person who recruited me to join the Club asked me to go birding with him.   I was terrified.      An...

The intersection of arts and political activism are two fields defined by a shared focus of creating engagement that shifts boundaries, changes relationships, and creates new paradigms. For centuries, art has been used to create change and spread...

More and more of us are realizing that this is what it’s like to live in the Anthropocene.      The Anthropocene is generally considered to be the geologic age where humankind is the dominant force upon the surface of the...