The news of the Sierra Club across LA and Orange Counties!
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San Gabriel River tour shows leaders river area's potential
April 30, 2005
On April 2, Angeles Chapter staff and volunteers from the San Gabriel River Campaign gave a tour of the campaign's newest project proposal: the Emerald Necklace. The Emerald Necklace is a network of urban parks (green jewels) connected by trails (...
Aliso campaign victorious- wilderness golf plans halted
April 30, 2005
Views of Aliso Canyon, the Pacific Ocean, and Catalina Island can be enjoyed from Aliso Wood Canyons Wilderness Park near Laguna Beach. A luxury resort's bid to extend an adjacent golf course into this publicly owned park was thwarted in part...
What have you done for Planet Earth lately?
April 30, 2005
Dee packs it out for the Chapter. Once a month Dee Shaddock comes into the Chapter office and collects material the building doesn't recycle. That's mostly overruns of the Southern Sierran and whatever bottles, cans, and cardboard that...
The voracious cycle of growth must change
April 30, 2005
For a long time, we in the Sierra Club have been active in promoting conservation of natural resources and the preservation of natural open space, with what some may regard as considerable success. Of course that, like beauty, is in the eye of the...
The old way
April 30, 2005
Members get a taste of car travel circa 1915 on a tour of the Ridge Route, the curvy road that united California It wasn't the typical Wilderness Adventures Section outing. No hiking was involved, just a reliable car that could handle traveling...
It's a deal! Agencies combine forces to buy Soka land
April 30, 2005
As of press time, the 588-acre property across from Malibu Creek State Park in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains known as the Soka property or Gillette Ranch will have been purchased by a consortium of state and federal park agencies. Instead...
Forest Committee devotes itself to affecting plans
March 31, 2005
Influencing the long-range management plans that the Forest Service is developing for our Southern California's national forests will be a major focus of the Angeles Chapter's Forest Committee this year. At bimonthly meetings, the committee will...
Forest campaign intensifies as final management plans near
March 31, 2005
Sierra Club Regional Representative Our local national forests, so often taken for granted, are in trouble. As people build more and more houses, businesses, and roads around and even on the forests, wildlife and their habitat continue to decline....
Local LEEDers
March 31, 2005
Sustainably harvested wood. Solar paneling. Green energy. These and many other criteria are rapidly becoming the standard of the building industry thanks to an innovative program called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). MBI...
Renewables impractical? Tell that to the rest of the world
March 31, 2005
Many energy companies, as well as the Bush administration, are very fond of telling us that renewable energy may be an option...20 or 40 years from now. Much of the rest of the world, however, is not adhering to this timetable. Wind power already...