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What YOU Can Do To Stop Global Warming
April 30, 2008
Global warming got you down? Worried about ice caps and glaciers melting, species disappearing, hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes? (Not to mention possible water shortages in southern California.) If you're like me, you often use the very human...
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...
Ellen Louise Wilts (1925-2008)
April 30, 2008
Member of Angeles Chapter History Committee Photo courtesy Charles Wilts, Ellen & Charles Wilts Collection, Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives Ellen and Charles Wilts on summit of Mount Lyell, Yosemite National Park, August 1947....
Sierra Club Endorsements
April 30, 2008
Los Angeles County Supervisor, 2nd District Mark Ridley-Thomas (SD 26) South L.A., Westchester, Baldwin Hills, Watts, Crenshaw, Inglewood, Culver City, Florence-Fireston State Senate Districts Carol Liu (SD 21) Burbank, Glendale,...
Las Lomas Stopped by LA City Council
April 30, 2008
The Sierra Club, along with many others, has opposed the Las Lomas project. The development was proposed to be in a Significant Ecological Area that is the major wildlife corridor between the Santa Susanna and San Gabriel Mountains, and in the path...
Newcomer/Member Information Night
April 30, 2008
WHEN: May 5 WHAT: Newcomer/Member Information Night HOW: Come and discover the Sierra Club with the Orange County Group, Sierra Sage, OC and LA Sierra Singles, Natural Science, Hundred Peak Section, Wilderness Travel Course and many other...
Save Our Safeguards: Help Pass Prop 99 and Defeat Prop 98
April 30, 2008
By Tim Frank Sierra Club California Advocate Sierra Club California's top priority for this June election is to defeat Prop 98 and to help pass Prop 99. The first of these, Prop 98, is a constitutional amendment generated by the same special-...