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Club Urges Members to Become Climate Leaders
September 30, 2009
We are at a historic crossroads in the fight against climate change. The Sierra Club is asking its activists and chapters to help in this critically important fight by committing to daily, weekly or monthly actions as a Sierra Club Climate Leader....
Swing with Sierra Singles this New Year's Eve
September 30, 2009
Kathleen Murphy and Dennis Willett, Harwood New Year's Dec 31, 2008 Photo Credit: Photos by Dennis Willett This New Year's holiday join other revelers to howl at the full moon on the stroke of midnight! Come up to the Angeles Chapter's...
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN COPENHAGEN TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING ON OCTOBER 24
September 30, 2009
By Jim Stewart Co-chair, Angeles Chapter Global Warming, Energy & Air Quality Committee The world's leaders are meeting this December in Copenhagen, Denmark to craft a new global treaty on cutting emissions. The problem is, the draft treaty...
Help Slow Down Global Warming
September 30, 2009
Photo Credit: Darrell Clarke This Navajo, AZ coal power plant supplies LADWP. A major committee focus is ending our dependence on this and other coal plants producing dirty electricity. The Angeles Chapter's Global Warming, Energy and...
LOOKING TO SAVE THE EARTH AND SOME CASH? TRY A HOME ENERGY AUDIT
September 30, 2009
BY CARA LAMB When I got an e-mail saying I won an energy audit, I figured someone would come and spend an hour or two scolding us about the hot tub or trying to sell us new appliances and solar panels. It was only when I learned that the audit...
SIERRA CLUB ACTIVISTS SWARM THE CAPITOL TO BOOST CLEAN ENERGY AND PARKS BILLS
September 30, 2009
BY ANNIE PHAM Sierra Club California's 2009 Lobby Day was a smashing success! Dedicated volunteers from around the state traveled to Sacramento to urge their legislators to ramp up clean energy requirements and preserve our state parks. On August...
Grand Canyon Wilderness Adventure this Thanksgiving
August 31, 2009
Give thanks for the Grand Canyon with Wilderness Adventures this Thanksgiving. Join the adventure November 26-29.
Honor Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Take a Walk on the Wired Side
August 31, 2009
CAROL HENNING Co-Chair, Editorial Board Color me BlueGreen is the theme of the Angeles Chapter's Political Leadership Awards ceremony this year. The colors represent the Sierra Club's partnership with labor unions for green jobs-jobs...
Hot Ticket: Destination Costa Rica
August 31, 2009
Photo By: Mike Sappingfield Mike Sappingfield snapped this white-face monkey saying Bienvenidos! Nov 24 2007 at Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica WHAT: Angeles Chapter. From Pacific beaches to the wild Caribbean, visit...
Love at First Sight: the Magic of New Zealand
August 31, 2009
Photo By: Judy Shane Silenced by the roar of cascading waterfalls, we will walk through native plants found nowhere else on earth but New Zealand. Falling in love was something I was not opposed to when I first bicycled solo...