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The Low Down on Cool Cities: A Report From the Chapter Global Warming & Energy Committee
April 30, 2006
and Jan Kidwell Leaders in the Club are convinced by scientific research that the burning of fossil fuels, oil, coal and petroleum to power our cars, homes and businesses is causing the acceleration of climate change. Scientists tell us the extreme...
Railroad Riders Revisit Historic Roadside Restaraunt
April 30, 2006
Baker, Calif., with its fast food restaurants and Route 66-style motels is the last semblance of 'civilization' when you exit I-15 into Mojave National Preserve. Narrow, two-lane Kelbaker Road winds its way south through vast desert lands, where...
Bob Wheatley, 1916-2006
April 30, 2006
Bob Wheatley passed away Feb. 6. He was 89 years old. Wheatley was very active in the Sierra Club, serving as chair of the Rio Hondo Section for several years and helping to found the Lower Peaks Committee. He received Chapter Awards in...
L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl Outlines Plans for Environmental Conservation
April 30, 2006
, Marcia Hansom, and Susana Reyes Last spring, Bill Rosendahl, with huge Sierra Club grassroots support, was elected to the Los Angeles City Council. He now represents more than 250,000 residents in the 11th district, the city's largest coastal...
New Task Force to Take on Griffith Park Planners
April 30, 2006
Nineteen Chapter members met March 20 to create a task force that will go beyond opposition to the Griffith Park draft master plan and instead develop a Sierra Club vision for the park. Dean Wallraff, Conservation Committee Chair, conducted the...
Cows, Federal Agencies Dump on Public Lands
April 30, 2006
Get the Scoop on Freeloading Cattle Ranchers in Book on Welfare Ranching Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Ed. George Weurthner and Molli Matteson. Island Press, 2002. In the early 1970s, I...
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...
April News & Notes
March 31, 2006
ExComm Meets The Angeles Chapter Executive Committee will meet Sunday, April 23 at 1pm in the Chapter office. All members are invited to attend. Photo Competition Publishing company looking for a color photograph for the cover of the new edition of...
New Items at Chapter Library
March 31, 2006
New Books and DVDs Available for Checkout to Angeles Chapter Members Former Sierra Club executive director Michael McCloskey heads the library's list of new authors. In The Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club is the autobiography of...
Shopping for the Environment
March 31, 2006
Eco-Friendly Clothing Requires Research, but it's Worth the Clean Conscience As an environmentalist, I find it hard to enjoy clothes shopping these days. Three words on a label tell me enough about a garment's backstory to make me want to return it...