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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...
Las Lomas development halted
February 28, 2005
The proposed Las Lomas 5,800-home housing development in northern Los Angeles County has been blocked by Los Angeles and Santa Clarita officials. The Sierra Club took an official position to oppose Las Lomas in September 2004, and a grant was...
ICO leaders bring urban youth to nature
February 28, 2005
For Laura McCutcheon, the most recent Inner City Outings 'moment' came a month or two back. The group of third graders she was leading had just read a story about a deer that wandered from the woods to eat from backyard gardens, stirring a...
Green paint...in every color
February 28, 2005
Did you know that painting releases over 50 tons of smog-forming pollution each year in Southern California, five times as much as all our area's oil refineries? Paint is classified as toxic waste, and for good reason-the solvent in both oil- and...
Peek at the Past
February 28, 2005
The date is January 25, 1931, and posing with the cook, the cook's assistant, and their dog at Colby's Ranch are some of the most distinguished hikers and leaders of the 1920s and '30s. Among them are no fewer than eight Great Leaders(*) -members...
Mt. Rainier...eventually
February 28, 2005
You can tug all you want. I'm not gonna move any faster, you son of a --! My friend R.J. Secor was on the other end of the rope, trying to motivate me. That is your friend up there, I reminded myself. Nothing like rope travel to...
Club joins lawsuit to stop massive Ranch Plan in OC
February 28, 2005
The Sierra Club has joined an environmental lawsuit challenging the Nov. 8, 2004, decision of the Orange County Board of Supervisors to approve the application of Rancho Mission Viejo for a massive development known as the Ranch Plan. The Ranch...
Thanksgiving with the crocodiles
February 28, 2005
Looking for an exotic trip without leaving the country? Join the third Angeles Chapter-sponsored Natural and Wild Florida trip. Participants will snorkel in a coral reef, swim with manatees, and tour the Everglades, among other adventures. This...
Mammoth unmasked
February 28, 2005
Mammoth from the Inside: The Honest Guide to Mammoth & the Eastern Sierra, by Colleen Dunn Bates, Prospect Park Publishing, http://insidemammoth.com, $15.95 Once I liberated a phone book from the Motel 6 in Mammoth and for years it was...