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Calling all Outings Leaders: Is your first aid certification current?
July 26, 2018
The Sierra Club is changing its requirements for first aid certification for Outings Leaders. The date shown on your certification will become the basis for the official expiration date for your first aid certification. Your...
Join us in a salute to our green leaders at the 2018 Political Leadership Awards
July 23, 2018
Each year we honor California leaders who have made a difference for the environment. Join us for the 2018 Political Leadership Awards 2 to 5 p.m. Aug. 25 with the theme "A River for All." You'll get to meet and honor (from left...
SIERRA CLUB AIRPORT MARINA GROUP – Summer Issue While we are DARK at Chase Park in July and August there are things you can do --- PLEASE READ
July 17, 2018
SIERRA CLUB AIRPORT MARINA GROUP – Summer Issue
While we are DARK at Chase Park in July and August there are things you can do ---
1. Attend Del Rey Neighborhood Council Planning & Land Use Committee...
In Culver City, people power scores a victory over big oil
June 26, 2018
An oil field in Inglewood, Calif. Credit: L.A. County
Southern California has long been the toxic playground of the oil extraction industry, but a growing movement of grassroots activism across the region is...
The Sierra Club activist who forever changed a beloved coastal park -- and how she did it
June 21, 2018
Sometimes we all need to be reminded the profound difference one person can make -- and to be inspired to chart our own course. Jeannette Merrilees loved Crystal Cove State Park and for years led a Sierra Club task force to protect it from a...
Video: The problem with building a desalination plant in Huntington Beach
June 21, 2018
Many Southern Californians may not be aware of something happening in their own backyard. A billion-dollar desalination plant, the most expensive and environmentally-damaging way to secure Orange County's future water supply, is planned for...
SoCal water agency to again vote on Bay Delta water tunnels. Tell them to say no!
June 21, 2018
An aerial view of San Francisco Bay and its fragile delta areas. Credit: US Geological Survey
The plan to build 30-mile-long tunnels in the freshwater San Francisco Bay Delta is back for a vote by L.A.'s...
Stop Pruitt's quest to help industrial polluters
May 27, 2018
Scott Pruitt's got a polluting problem. Ever since he became head of the EPA, he's only cared about helping out polluting industries, not our families' health. And now he's using a strategy right out of the tobacco industry'...
All are invited to Climate Action Retreat on July 5
May 27, 2018
The Sierra Club's Climate Action Team is looking for fired-up volunteers to find solutions for the reduction of greenhouse gases.
The committee is recruiting new members and invites all to a 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 5 brainstorming...