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An Award for Energy Awareness and Good Business Sense
January 31, 2010
Credit: Timothy Cormack To encourage the Orange County business community to use energy (the unseen juice that makes things run) from green source, the OC Global Warming Committee initiated the 'Solar Powered Building' Award and visibility...
Outdoor Leadership Training April 10
January 31, 2010
Interested in becoming an outings leader for the Club? Angeles Chapter is home to one of the largest outings programs on the planet - thousands of trips ranging from beach barbecues to mountaineering expeditions. You can take the first step...
Banquet Will Honor Our Finest Volunteers
January 31, 2010
The Angeles Chapter will honor its members at the Annual Awards Banquet May 2, 2010. The event will take place at the Brookside Country Club near the Rose Bowl. Outdoor reception from 5-6 pm, followed by dinner and presentation of awards....
The Sable Guides of Mammoth Cave
January 31, 2010
Jerry Bransford Courtesy Earthwise Productions No one is quite sure just how large the cave at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky really is. It is the longest known cave in the world, with nearly 370 miles of passages measured to date...
Mark Your Calendar for Bingo
January 31, 2010
We're putting the FUN in fundraising this February 10 at 7 p.m. with LEGENDARY BINGO, thanks to our friends at HAMBURGER MARY's. This unique and much sought-after fundraiser gives us a wonderful opportunity for outreach, funding, good times and...
Antelope Valley Group Continues the Fight To Preserve a Regional Treasure
January 31, 2010
Worth fighting for: the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve Help save The Antelope Poppy Reserve, a true monument to grassroots activism. The Poppy Reserve is the creation of local residents, including school children who donated through the...
Wild Borneo, Land of the Headhunters
January 31, 2010
& Stephanie Gross. Price includes hotel, bus transportation, some meals, airport transfers, most hikes or walks, and more. Domestic & International Airfare is extra and group air is available. Sierra Club members $2,395 before March 15th....
Opinion: Should I Order the Salmon?
January 31, 2010
Where's the salmon from? asked the server at a Carmel restaurant. It's from somewhere up north, the server winged it. Wild? I persisted. Yes, the server replied, although the fish was actually farmed in Scotland. Eighty percent of the salmon...
Building Bridges to the Outdoors
January 31, 2010
Credit: Bill Vanderberg Seeking to Give Every Child A Chance to Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet Children today spend an unprecedented amount of time indoors and, as we continually hear, youth obesity rates are on the rise. Kids need...
Santa Clarita Residents Invite You To Help Get SC Valley Off the Grid
January 31, 2010
, a psychotherapist, wrote a letter to the editor of the Newhall Signal stating that HOAs could be pivotal in creating or supporting large-scale projects to convert homes to solar by buying in bulk and lowering the costs to the home owner. We met up...