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Santa Clarita Group US Representative Howard 'Buck' McKeon, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich (Fifth District), and the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita have joined with the Sierra Club and many others in their opposition to...

Going on a diet, exercising, reading more, working less, spending more time with the family. All popular resolutions. As a Sierra Club member, I also am asking myself to make 2008 be a greener year. Here are 33 small changes you can make in your...

'We were driving along the Wildlife Loop, and we saw this massive herd of buffalo. Our car was like a rock in this river of wildlife. The buffalo were so close that we could just about reach out and touch them.' Photo courtesy Mike...

Photo courtesy Don HendersonA three-year-old male condor as seen from Lookout Studio at South Rim Grand Canyon National Park. Wilderness Adventures' Thanksgiving bus trip to the Grand Canyon resulted in five sightings of the California...

Global Warming, Energy and Air Quality Committee LA County Supervisors have directed staff to prepare a draft Green Building Ordinance that needs your support. Please send a letter by January 7, 2008, to zoup@planning.lacounty.gov and also speak at...

2008 ExComm Member-at-Large A new Angeles Chapter committee - the Chapter Leadership Training Academy - will be responsible for training of newly elected and returning entity officers and appointed chairs, as well as for other volunteer training...

Photo courtesy Joe YoungProbing the soil to find the permafrost level. I recently participated in the Earthwatch expedition studying 'Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge.' Eleven volunteers from four countries joined the researchers for 10...

Global warming: we've seen An Inconvenient Truth, and are already witnessing drought, water shortages, horrific fires, and no snow in the east coast, not to mention the melting polar ice caps, with flooding and refugee crises to come. Given these...

, Ph.D. Power plants contribute about 40% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released to the atmosphere in the United States, about 60% world-wide. With permits on tap for about another 150 in the United States alone, millions of addition tons of...

As a time for giving, the holidays are the perfect opportunity to give back to the planet. Making sure you're doing your part to help the environment goes hand-in-hand with many of the holiday traditions we've come to love. Here are a few ways to...