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Revamp of site recognized at annual fete Lead designer Ann Zumwinkle accepts award from Sierra Club president Larry Fahn honoring Angeles Chapter web site redesign committee at September awards ceremony. Photo by Saul Bromberger Among the...

In itself, having a car is not a good thing for the planet, but an Ozymandian monument to consumption. Yet, those of us trapped in the culture that uses cars can do things to make them a little more friendly to the environment and more efficient in...

The Sierra Club Sustainable Consumption Committee's True Cost of Food Campaign makes it clear that our choice of food, now more than ever during the holiday season, affects our earth, our health, and what we leave as a legacy to our children and our...

Angeles Chapter Executive Committee Vice Chair On March 20, my wife and I took delivery of a brand spanking new Toyota Prius, a hybrid automobile. That simple act brought home to me the technological advances that are here today, economically...

Sierra Summit 2005 Save the date: September 8-11, 2005. San Francisco. That's when the Sierra Club will hold its first national environmental convention and exposition. Sierra Summit 2005 will bring together thousands of Club members and supporters...

Imagine a fresh water fish that can grow to the size of a rolled-up tent, has an appetite so voracious that it feeds on small mammals, and has reportedly killed humans with its razor-sharp teeth. Now imagine that this fish, after clearing a lake of...

The Sierra Club has appealed the trial court judgment upholding the city of Malibu's approval of a 54-room hotel (27 luxury guest suites) within the 100-foot riparian buffer of year-round Solstice Creek, where the National Park Service is leading...

A few thousand feet below me, a vast table of pale rock touches the horizon without a speck of green anywhere. Above, steep rock juts out against the bright blue sky. I'm standing close to the Whitney Notch on the Mountaineers Route almost 14,000...

The total votes cast in a precinct may not seem like much: 350-800 people. But the cliché 'every vote counts' is true. In November 2003, a Culver City school board race ended in a tie. (The winner was chosen by drawing colored marbles from a...

Sierra Club Regional Representative Sierra Club volunteer bringing information to Reno voter. Photo by Eric Wesselman As many of you likely know by now, this year's presidential election is going to be decided by just a handful of swing states...