In 1849, an eleven-year-old boy moved with his family to the United States. More than four decades later, that boy co-founded the Sierra Club and served as its president for the next 22 years. Like many great Americans, John Muir was an immigrant. It is only because he was able to take advantage of the opportunities in his adopted country that the Sierra Club exists at all.
If you live in Southern California, you’ve probably seen the television ad with the hand turning off a light switch and exhorting you to “Flex Your Power.”
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Summer is around the corner and everything is starting to feel a little lighter, especially your electric bill when you go solar with the Sierra Club.
Sometimes life grabs you by the throat and sends you packing. That's what happened to Jared Vagy, an instructor for the Angeles Chapter's Wilderness Travel Course (San Gabriel Valley, Group 3) who heeded the call to act on his inner passions.
I tore down the posters from my wall, moved out of a beautiful apartment four blocks from the beach, quit an amazing job that I had enjoyed for three years, packed up all of my belongings, put them into storage and traveled to South America for six months.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on April 8 ruled that the Obama Administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. The ruling came in response to a suit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, challenging a September 2011 decision by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to auction off about 2,500 acres of land in southern Monterey County to oil companies.
Each April, the Angeles Chapter Sierra Club celebrates Earth Day with more than one trail-thumping tribute to Club founder John Muir. Muir turns 175 this April 21, and the Chapter has organized special rendezvous hikes in his honor. Hikers start at different trailheads and meet up to toast the man whose name launched an environmental movement.
Ron Van Cleave, longtime beloved chair of the Bicycle Touring Committee, died Oct. 27.
He apparently died after a fall at his home in Newhall. Known relatives are his wife, Beverly, and son Jim. Ron was one of the earliest leaders of the Bicycle Touring Committee, or BTC, , serving as chairman principally in from the '70s to '90s.
The Sierra Club headquartered in San Francisco is run by a national board of directions. This year there will be seven candidates on the ballot: Donna Buell, Jim Dougherty, Chuck Frank, Becky Gillette, Robin Mann, Susanna Reyes and Matt Urban.
The Angeles Chapter recommends a vote for Susana Reyes and Robin Mann in the upcoming election for the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors.
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