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Your Action Is Needed To Protect America's Arctic!
August 31, 2006
Sierra Club Alaska Representative Photo courtesy Northern Alaska Environmental Center Teshekpuk Lake is the biological heart of America's Western Arctic. 'While the battle over drilling the [arctic] refuge raged in Congress, the Bush...
Cheap Ways to Keep Your Home Cooler (and Help Save the Planet)
August 31, 2006
The largest home energy consumption in Southern California is cooling. While I'm not suggesting you pull the plug, especially not in heat waves such as this summers, there are many ways to cut down on your energy consumption and still keep cool. The...
Abbye Stockton, 1917-2006
August 31, 2006
'Pudgy,' as she was known among her fellow weight-lifting and physical fitness aficionados, passed away at the age of 88 on June 26th from complications from Alzheimer's Disease. She was the widow of Les Stockton, who died in April 2004. The...
Environmentalists Find a Rough Trail in Agency's Handling of Giant Sequioa Preserve
August 31, 2006
Photo courtesy Martin Litton Aerial photo illustrates clear cuts where giant sequoia trees stand without a forest around them, due to trees that have been cut and shipped to sawmills for logging. California's giant sequoias, among the...
Chaparral: California's Unknown Wilderness
August 31, 2006
There's a special place in Southern California that most do not know exists. It's time to get introduced. Surprising to many, this unknown land was once the favored home of the California grizzly bear. Its old-growth forms represent one of the...
Forest Committee Offers New Hikes, Speakers, and Programs to Protect Our Local Forests
August 31, 2006
Angeles Chapter Forest Committee Chair Photo courtesy Andrew M. Harvey The Forest Committee is expanding its efforts to protect backcountry areas of the Angeles National Forest such as Pleasant View Ridge, pictured above. Our local...
Emerging Green Media Amplifies the Environmental Choir
August 31, 2006
The chorus of environmental voices just got louder. Television channels, print and online magazines, and hundreds of web-logs mark the emergence of a new green media. Bearing names like 'Grist', 'Plenty', and 'TreeHugger', they are savvy and hip,...
Roadrunners Attack West Coyote Hills
May 31, 2006
Angeles Chapter Conservation Chair On Feb. 25 about 50 members attended the Angeles Chapter's first-ever all-day conservation retreat at the Community Center in El Monte. The program, 'Tricks of the Trade: A Toolbox for Conservation Activists,' was...
Bay Cleanup or Boondoggle?
April 30, 2006
Sprawl-Ridden L.A. Cleans Up Its Act - or At Least Acts Like It's Cleaning Up Undoing poor planning and fixing urban environmental problems is going to cost local taxpayers billions of dollars. Or it could pay for itself. Certainly, the millions...
Documentary on L.A. Air Pollution Will Leave You Breathless
April 30, 2006
On April 1, businessman and community activist Ken Melendez stood behind the microphone at a meeting room packed mostly with Wilmington residents. It was a beautiful rain-swept morning and Melendez said he would get emotional. He kept his word....