News Blog

California has enough water - enough to last into the next generation and beyond. It just needs to be managed more wisely. That's the central thesis of a new book by Dorothy Green, long-time Los Angeles water policy activist. Water Management:...

By Lore Pekrul Chair, Green Building Committee What's the Green Building Committee been doing? What GBC has been doing. The Green Building Committee first met in May, 2007. We've spent time learning about and supporting green building programs...

It is raining in Southern California. Traffic snarls. Electricity fails. Raw sewage runs into the sea. TV stations break into regular programming for special reports: 'Yes, Chet and Mindy, it's coming down hard here in Covina.' In Ecology of Fear...

By Lore Pekrul Chair, Green Building Committee In the interest of curbing global warming and reducing short- and long-term energy costs, the City of Los Angeles is closing in on final approval for a green building program that will be an...

By Mike Sappingfield Chair, Angeles Chapter Sierra Club's Friends of the Foothills campaign won a major victory on Wednesday, February 6th when, after over 12 hours of testimony from all sides, the California Coastal Commission voted 8-2 to...

Part One This article is the first of a series of articles on sustainable gardening practices. We living here in Southern California are lucky to be in a Mediterranean climate where a huge variety of plant species can grow. However, we are not...

Public lands ranching, built around the image of the 'all-American cowboy,' is perhaps the single most conspicuously harmful manifestation of livestock agriculture in the West. Ranchers are being subsidized to overgraze their cattle on public lands...

As I pitched the idea of the Sierra Sweethearts feature to the Editorial Board a couple of months ago, it seemed simultaneously a great idea as well as one destined to annoy a sensible part of the membership that rejects the notion of Valentine's...

'Our future no longer fits within these walls,' declares a poster near the entrance to the Museum of the American West in Griffith Park. Indeed. A brochure which announces 'A New Plan for the Autry National Center at Griffith Park' and exhorts the...

According to the Lonely Planet book series, China is 'the longest continuous civilization, with an impressive heritage of art, architecture, language, and cuisine…. [China] is a country of great contrasts: picturesque rural landscapes and congested...