The news of the Sierra Club across LA and Orange Counties!
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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...
The Green Gardener: Win the weed war, organically
April 30, 2005
If you haven't kept up with weeding over this wet winter you may find yourself knee high in dandelions, stinging nettle, and grasses. You may be tempted to reach for an herbicide, but please consider the following before you do. According to the...
Surplus of books on oil's decline
March 31, 2005
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2003). Available from www.musletter.com. Written for undergraduates as well as the general public, The Party's Over is...
Nuclear power: Industry's rabbit in the hat
March 31, 2005
The Bush administration's refusal to deal with global warming seems inexplicable. Rising oceans and temperatures, after all, do not selectively spare Republicans, Texans, or oil executives. But they are not baffled, puzzled, or stymied. They are...
Denouement
March 31, 2005
Chair, Angeles Chapter Transportation Committee Peak oil is the likely near-term peak and decline of worldwide oil production in the face of rising demand. It is uncertain how soon we will have reached peak oil, but there is no doubt that it will...
Passages
March 31, 2005
Muir Dawson, 1922-2005 Muir Dawson, one of the Angeles Chapter's longest-term members and a staunch supporter of the Chapter History Committee, passed away in February. He was 83. Muir came from a family steeped in the traditions and lore of the...
Puerto Rico named newest Club Chapter
March 31, 2005
The Sierra Club's national Board of Directors chartered the Club's newest chapter on Feb. 19. Puerto Rican Sierra Club members formally petitioned the board to become the first newly chartered chapter in more than 10 years. Puerto Rico will be the...