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Nuclear power: Sierra Club's No Nukes Team notes Japan's shut down of nuclear plants.

Southern California may be particularly vulnerable to fracking.

“Shame on them!” cried labor, environmental and community activists assembled in front of American Reclamation’s waste sorting center in the Atwater area of Los Angeles.

A federal appeals court decision in an Arizona case sharply restricts and may end the Adventure Pass program that imposes recreation fees for visitors to Angeles National Forest and other federal lands. The U.S. Forest Service, though, made no immediate move to change its fee system.

The sun was setting over the horizon, casting a pink hue over the vast blue ocean before us. A cool breeze whipped over the rolling hills and blew past me, rustling our tents. The students began walking out from the brush to join me at the campsite and sat next to me silently, meditatively.

The road to clean energy
The true cost of energy?

Why
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May 11-12: Visit the Angeles Chapter table at the 9^th Annual AltBuild Conference & Expo, Santa Monica.

The Chapter’s South Bay Open Space Task Force wants to see three steps taken to protect homes adjacent to the Palos Verdes Landfill. So far, regulatory agencies have been unresponsive to the task force’s concerns, and the task force would like your help to reach out to decision-makers.

There’s another national parkland plan for a mountain corridor surrounding the San Fernando, La Crescenta, Santa Clarita, Simi, and Conejo valleys. The study of the Rim of the Valley Corridor, as its known, started in 2010 and will have the final report to Congress in 2014.

The Sierra Club regularly participates in trail repair and removing non-native plants in Southern California forests and mountain areas. But an issue arose last fall over the Angeles National Forest’s restoration plans after the devastating Station Fire of 2009: Do we need to plant trees? And, if so, what kind?

Incentive programs are one way to change the way people think about how they use energy. Energy Upgrade California aims to do just that: reward homeowners with rebates for taking a holistic approach to their home energy use.

Have you ever had to turn away millions of dollars?

Leadership Training Workshop:
Sat., May 12 - 8:30am-3pm 
Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena

Climate change: Good jobs, green jobs means creating a sustainable economy with jobs that don't harm the environment but improve it.

Calendar: Begin planning your 2012 vacation with trips to Alaska, Virginia and Colorado

So you’re an experienced hiker who loves to explore the backcountry. From spring through fall, you’re entrenched in climbing the next ridge, the highest peak, the most difficult pass. But what about those winter months when the Sierras and the local mountains are covered by snow?

Montebello Hills: An oil company wants to build 1,200 homes on a site where it's drilling. But Sierra Club says homes and oil just don't mix.

Activism: The grass-roots effort behind a new park plan for the San Gabriels was aided by communities of color.

Sepulveda Basin: The Valley's secret wild place is a sweet spot in the Sepulveda Basin where birds and wildlife thrive.

Yosemite: Spend summer educating the public about environmental issues at the Sierra Club's historic LeConte Lodge.

UCLA: An alumni with a love of nature and geology names a chair at the school for John Muir.