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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Photo By: Bob Cates Bob Cates assessing fire damage at Switzer's Camp. He helped plant the pine forest in the left background with the Sierra Club in 1972. Now he's ready to do it again with your help. Even as the largest fire in the...

By Terry Brady The next round of UN talks on climate change is just around the corner. The leaders of the world will again come together this December in Copenhagen. We hope that this time meaningful targets will be set. Toward this end, October...

BY CAROL HENNING Co-Chair, Editorial Board First, the good news: On August 11, 2009, the Autry Center announced to the L.A. City Council's Board of Referred Powers it was withdrawing our proposal to build an expansion of the Autry's building in...

BY PAUL CARLTON Co-Chair, OC Global Warming Committee The Orange County Global Warming Committee (OCGWC) has been in existence for just over one year and we have made considerable progress. We are actually a subcommittee of the Angeles Chapter...