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Photo courtesy Fred Dong Six panda bears trotted towards the wall where we were watching them. These were playful adolescents full of energy having fun in their enclosure. Many of us stayed a long time to watch this youthful display of...

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...

Three ordinances under consideration by Los Angeles County would change the face of local residential and commercial development, ushering in a new era of green building practices that would significantly reduce environmental waste, stimulate...

Remember what it was like to communicate with a Sierra Club group in the old days? Photocopy your letter, then address, stuff, stamp and mail envelopes? Isn't e-mail a wonderful convenience? Yes, it is, but e-mail has a dark side. When conflicts...

The Conservation Management Committee sponsored a reception prior to the January Conservation Committee at the chapter headquarters in order to celebrate the outright donation of 175 acres of land in the Verdugo Hills to be preserved for the public...

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...