Angeles Chapter Annual Awards Banquet returns after three-year hiatus

  • Posted on 2 May 2022
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter leaders and supporters gathered on May 1 at Friendship Auditorium in Griffith Park to celebrate its 2019 awardees. More than 100 members and supporters came together to recognize our volunteers, whose efforts to explore and preserve wild places attest to the chapter’s resiliency in the face of overlapping crises to our climate, health, and democracy. 
 

Sierra Club Co-Sponsors Earth Day Panel at Pan African Film Festival in Baldwin Hills

  • Posted on 2 May 2022
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
What were you up to on Earth Day weekend? Sierra Club staff and volunteers kicked off the festivities Friday, co-sponsoring an Earth Day Panel with Natural Resources Defense Council about the Inglewood Oil Field and our work to phase it out at the 30th Annual Pan African Film Festival (PAFF).
 
PAFF is the largest Black film festival in the country and is held at the Crenshaw Mall in Baldwin Hills, right next to the Inglewood Oil Field—the largest urban oil field in the country. 
 

A Letter from the New Conservation Co-Chairs

  • Posted on 15 March 2022
  • By Wendy-Sue Rosen & Robin Smith - Conservation Committee Co-Chairs
Wendy-Sue Rosen and Cynthia “Robin” Smith are excited to be the new co-chairs of the Angeles Chapter Conservation Committee.
 
Wendy-Sue Rosen

Pictured: Wendy-Sue Rosen

Interview with Angeles Chapter Activist & Artist, Myla Collier

  • Posted on 7 March 2022
  • By Juliet Fang, Communications Volunteer

Myla Collier is the winner of a Sierra Club Angeles Chapter grant to create a traveling mixed media art show called “Climate: A New Look”. Her exhibit will premiere around April. 

Tell us about your background before working at the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter.

Get to Know Angeles Chapter Chair, Dyana Peña

  • Posted on 3 March 2022
  • By Juliet Fang, Communications Volunteer
Dyana Peña, the former Angeles Executive Committee Vice-Chair, was elected to serve as the Angeles Chapter Chair in January 2022. Two of her priorities for this year are reinvigorating the chapter’s outing program and bringing more joy to the nitty-gritty work of protecting the environment. 
 
How did you become involved with the Sierra Club?
 

Chapter Chair Shares Priorities for 2022

  • Posted on 7 February 2022
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
Dyana Peña, who in December was selected by her peers to serve the remainder of Dennis Loya’s term as Chapter Chair (through 2022) shares her priorities for the year ahead. 
 

VOTE for Sierra Club Board of Directors

  • Posted on 7 February 2022
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
You can help decide the direction of the nation’s largest grassroots environmental organization by voting in the Sierra Club’s annual board of directors election. National Board members are elected for three-year terms.
 
The 2022 election for the Sierra Club’s National Board of Directors begins in March. You may vote by paper ballot or electronically.
 

Get to Know New Executive Committee Member, Steve Dunwoody

  • Posted on 5 January 2022
  • By Juliet Fang, Communications Volunteer
We’re excited to welcome, Steve Dunwoody, of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter’s newest elected board members. He will be officially taking office in January 2022. 
 
Tell me about your background prior to joining us here at the Angeles Chapter.
 

Coastal Activist Primer: Intro to the Coastal Act

  • Posted on 1 November 2021
  • By Seth Weisbord
Often Sierra Club members become concerned about conservation issues along the coastline of LA and Orange Counties. Usually, this means having some knowledge about the California Coastal Act and California Coastal Commission is useful. This article is part of a planned series of articles and videos/podcasts to help those new to coastal activism quickly come up to speed on how to be effective in protecting our coastal environment.
 
Introduction to the Coastal Act
 

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