Mapping Our Water

  • Posted on 25 February 2021
  • By Lore Pekrul and Chuck Gooley

GIS Committee Maps for Angeles Chapter Water Committee

My Experience as a Water Board Director

  • Posted on 22 February 2021
  • By Conner Everts
The late matriarch of Los Angeles environmental groups, Dorothy Green, wrote a book that focuses on Southern California water and water agencies: Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California. 
 

What's in your Water

  • Posted on 17 February 2021
  • By Filomena Fuchs, Water Committee Member

A Water Quality Gradebook for LA and OC's Drinking Water

Hollywood Reservoir, Hollywood, California. A major storage area for LA's fresh water needs.

Hollywood Reservoir, Hollywood, California. A major storage area for LA's fresh water needs. John Nilsson all rights reserved

SB 1383 Tackling Hunger, Waste and Climate

  • Posted on 1 February 2021
  • By Dr. Jim Stewart & Hoiyin Ip
Nearly one in four Californians suffer from food insecurity. 
 
Yet more than 11 billion pounds of edible food is wasted every year in California.  
 
Organic waste, including food waste, decomposes in landfills releasing methane emissions that account for 20% of the state’s methane. Methane is a short-lived climate super pollutant 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Reducing methane has the fastest impact on the climate crisis. 
 

THE END OF OIL IS IN SIGHT

  • Posted on 1 February 2021
  • By Barbara Hensleigh & David Haake - Angeles Chapter Clean Break Volunteer Organizers

A PUMPJACK IN L.A.’S WILMINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD. ACROSS CALIFORNIA, MORE THAN 5 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE NEAR AN OIL OR GAS WELL, TWO-THIRDS OF WHOM ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR. PHOTO BY NACHO CORBELLA

Vote in the 2020 Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Elections

  • Posted on 15 September 2020
  • By The Angeles Chapter

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS OCTOBER 5TH

VOTERS GUIDE 

The annual Angeles Chapter elections begin Monday, October 5, and end Monday, November 9. Active members will be voting for

  • At-large positions on the Angeles Chapter Executive Committee,
  • Members of the Executive/Management Committee for their Regional Group in the Chapter.

Ballots: There are three ways to access the ballot needed for you to vote: 

Democracy for Climate, Climate for Democracy: Recapping the 2020 Political Leadership Awards

  • Posted on 26 August 2020
  • By Jonathan Howard
The Angeles Chapter presented its 13th annual Political Leadership Awards on August 23 to an exceptional group of honorees at the first-ever virtual celebration in the Chapter’s history. The event took place on the new Remo conferencing platform. Proceeds from ticket sales for the event will go to the California Sierra Club PAC, which provides financial contributions for Sierra Club-endorsed candidates in state and local elections in California.
 

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