Conservation Blog Category

On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources Dr. Homer Wilkes held a listening session for a long time effort to expand the San Gabriel National Monument.      Nature for All Coalition supporters...

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak at an event about electrification at Burbank where various of the presenter spoke about why we work on building electrification. We spoke about the environmental social justice aspect and importance, advocacy...

Who wins, the planet or the electric utility?   You have electrified your home, and installed solar panels. You drive an electric car and you no longer take commercial airplane flights. You know that all this is just a drop in a very big...

The intensity of California's heat & smog makes it more crucial than ever to #ElectrifyEverything The Sierra Club is deeply committed to ending the use and our dependence on oil, decarbonizing our buildings, and electrifying all sectors....

(and how a few Angeles Chapter members will match your contributions!) We’ve heard it said: “We are stronger together.” The Angeles Chapter boasts nearly 90,000 people in our database who have shown interest in exploring,...

The United Nations launched its Cool Cities Challenge at the Sharm El-Sheikh meeting in 2022 to encourage cities to enhance the number of nature-based cooling solutions within their boundaries because cities are warming twice as fast as the global...

This map showcases both the existing national monument areas and the newly proposed ones. These areas are of great significance due to their natural beauty, cultural heritage, and ecological importance. President Obama established the 346,000-...

  Join the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club and other local organizations in celebrating its Second Annual Latino Conservation Week Event and LCW 10th year anniversary! We are excited to host another unique event that invites our...

It’s Plastic Free July!    Perhaps the biggest local plastic news of the month so far is that LAX banned the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. Hotels can do this too. Let’s go push our Cities and Counties for the ban...

For many years I didn’t know that I lived near so many oil wells in my dense Los Angeles neighborhood. That office building about ¼ mile from me?  It’s a façade for a recently closed oil and gas extraction site. The building...