Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club Recap and What's Next!
The Angeles Chapter staff has committed to organizing a book club that focuses on themes centered on Environmental Social Justice. Our intention is to create a space where individuals from all ages and backgrounds can come together to read and discuss the intersectionality of issues related to race, conservation, and the environment.
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Deserts surrounding Los Angeles:
Western Joshua Trees: To Protect or Not to Protect?
That is the Question: Should western Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) receive legal protection in California?
Joshua Tree by Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0)
Celebrating World Water Day - The Angeles Chapter Way
WatCom tours MWD/ LA Sanitation Recycled Water Pilot Project, March 2020 before shutdown.
Mapping Our Water
GIS Committee Maps for Angeles Chapter Water Committee
What's the Sierra Club California Water Committee and Why Do We Need It?
The Sierra Club California Water Committee is an issue committee that reports to the California Conservation Committee, the organization that sets Sierra Club's environmental policy for the State of California. Thus the State Water Committee is the main group responsible for defining the Sierra Club's water policies for California.
Poseidon's Toxic Desalination Proposal
The people behind the Poseidon project feel Orange County residents do not pay enough for water. They feel that residents can and should pay. They see a potential profit in each glass of water, each shower and each toilet flush. Their plan is simple, add more expensive water that we do not need into our existing water supply and then charge us more for the water we already own. This idea is so profitable that it resurfaces again and again going on nearly 20 years now, and the Sierra Club has been working hard to keep your water supply inexpensive and abundant.
Ocean Desalination Meets Homelessness?
Tents propped in Echo Park, Los Angeles John Nilsson all rights reserved
Water Equity and COVID-19
Water Equity and COVID- 19 or Is Water Inequality A More Apt Description?
Health care professionals have reassured the public that you can’t catch COVID-19 from drinking water, but what if you have other worrisome things in your water? How do you follow the health guidance about washing your hands when you don’t have access to clean water?
