You Can Participate in Drawing the Lines!

  • Posted on 29 July 2021
  • By Sharon Koch & John Monsen

Why should you  participate in redistricting, the process of setting new congressional and state legislative boundaries?

 

Because it is easy, it matters, and you only have this opportunity every ten years.

 

Help Keep California Green!

  • Posted on 6 July 2021
  • By Angeles Chapter
The California Sierra Club Political Action Committee (PAC) is holding its annual fundraiser online Sunday, August 8th from 4 pm to 6 pm.   The PAC contributes to state and local candidates statewide.  
 

Sierra Club Looks to Build on Special Efforts to Make Water Agencies More Diverse and Progressive

  • Posted on 1 March 2021
  • By John Monsen

The Sierra Club Helped Make Several Influential Water Agencies More Diverse and Progressive; Now We Need to Prepare to Do Even More

Water may be life, but most residents of Southern California do not often reflect on the complex series of canals, pumps, and pipelines that connect where they live to water sources like the Colorado River, the Sierras, or the numerous water basins under LA County.
 

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

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