The news of the Sierra Club across LA and Orange Counties!
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Victories for San Pedro Bay
May 31, 2008
Chair, Harbor Vision Task Force The Angeles Chapter's Harbor Vision Task Force participated in two historic victories in March and April. One will help clean up stinky trucks and provide for trucking improved jobs. The other will create a $51...
Tip of the Month
May 31, 2008
It is fire season again in Southern California! Many California native plants are not only very beautiful but also fire resistant. Of course eventually everything will burn, so keep your plants at a safe distance from your house and properly...
Volunteer Corner for Web
May 31, 2008
Water! Water! Water! More than ever a life issue. Help protect the quality and conserve our water. We need you to be a part of this important effort. Water is becoming scarcer, especially in Southern California. Water rationing might be coming to...
Burbank City Council:
May 31, 2008
'Sustainability's #1' Burbank's City Council chose to make sustainability the City's number one priority at its annual goal setting meeting held May 3, 2005. Each year the Council holds this meeting on the first Saturday in May to specifically...
Sierra Club Makes History : 240,000 Acres Preserved in Perpetuity
May 31, 2008
Editor, Southern Sierran Photo courtesy TejonPreserve.com Golden Hills Oaks On May 8, 2008, the Sierra Club and four other leading environmental organizations announced a historic land conservation agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company...
Maddalena Serra Joins Chapter Staff
May 31, 2008
Please welcome Maddalena Serra to her new post as Conservation Coordinator for the Angeles Chapter. Serra comes to the Chapter headquarters from Amigos De los Rios, where she spent the last two years focusing on campaigns promoting open space,...
Cahuenga Peak for Sale
April 30, 2008
There was a Hope that this Peak Would Become Part of Griffith Park. Will it Become a Megamansion Instead? 'A Hollywood hideaway fit for silver screen royalty can now be yours
' trumpets the ad in the Los Angeles Times, Westside Homes supplement,...
The Chair's Corner
April 30, 2008
Chair, 2008 Angeles Chapter Executive Committee May is the month of thanksgiving - that is, this is the time we give thanks to the thousands of members who do all that they do to make the Angeles Chapter and the Sierra Club function effectively....
Adventure Opportunities: Explore Costa Rica!
April 30, 2008
Photo courtesy Mike Sappingfield Sunlight through the canopy dapples this forest walkway. Destination Costa Rica: Sixteen day tour of Costa Rica from the Pacific beaches to the wild Northern Caribbean with stops in San Jose, Arenal, Santa...
Turn the Economic Stimulus into an Environmental Stimulus
April 30, 2008
Sr. Chapter Director As the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter strives to keep environmental issues in the forefront of our local and national elected officials, we have all been shocked and frustrated by obstructions from the Bush Administration. But...
