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COMMITTEE OFFERS YOU AN EASY WAY TO HELP SLOW GLOBAL WARMING
May 31, 2009
Replace dirty brown power with clean energy with the LADWP Green Power Program. PHOTO BY DARRELL CLARKE Would you like to help slow global warming --- easily? And without having to drive somewhere in your car? If so, you're invited to...
Composting 101
May 31, 2009
This material was reproduced from a Sierra Club website with permission of the Sierra Club. Hooray for the Black, Brown, and Green It's a bit of gardening wisdom that if you feed the soil, the soil will feed the plants. And one of the best ways...
Don't Waste the Desert on Trash
May 31, 2009
A desert tortoise enjoys breakfast. PHOTO BY DONNA CHARPIED The Eagle Mountain dump will be the repository for Los Angeles' garbage for the next 117 years. Proposed by Kaiser Ventures and a shell corporation, Mine Reclamation...
ZERO WASTE: FUN WITH REPURPOSING
May 31, 2009
FIRST PLACE: Elena Driskill Elena made this darling and very functional, reusable grocery bag out of Capri-Sun drink bags. She sewed each bag together quilt-style, then, she fin- ished the interior with lime green duct tape. The judges...
LETTERS AND EMAILS
May 31, 2009
Thanks to Carol Henning for her story, Neighbors' Plans for Expansion May Spell Trouble for Griffith Park, in the April issue. Stephen V. Hymowitz Sierra Club Life Member Dear Friends: What a great column Sandra Cattell wrote in the March...
LOBBY DAY IS AUGUST 23, 24 mark your calendars!
May 31, 2009
The annual Lobby Day takes place Sunday and Monday August 23rd and 24th. You will be part of a team that will help Sierra Club California pass our priority bills during the most exciting and challenging time of the year at the State Capitol. You...
CHAPTER TASK FORCE TAKES ON MONTEBELLO HILLS EIR
May 31, 2009
The proposed development not only endangers the native gnatcatcher, but also poses serious health concerns for its potential human residents. PHOTO BY JEFF YANN Developers have proposed a 1200 housing unit development on the last large...
Club Launches Online Communities
May 31, 2009
The Sierra Club has launched three new online communities: Climate Crossroads: http://climatecrossroads.org Sierra Student Coalition: http://ssc.sierraclub.org Sierra Club Trails: http://sierraclubtrails.org Sierra Club and other activists are...
THINKING OUTSIDE THE DUMP: ZERO WASTE
May 31, 2009
BY SARAH MOSKO, PHD. A fond memory from my childhood is of visiting the neighborhood 'dump' with my dad to drop off whatever refuse, like old tires, we couldn't burn in our backyard incinerator. Nowadays, the local dump has been supplanted by...
PALOS VERDES LANDFILL
May 31, 2009
BY JOAN DAVIDSON Co-Chair, South Bay Open Space Task Force The Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) has recently concluded a Five Year Review of the Palos Verdes Landfill. The landfill was operational 1952-1980, covering approximately 300...