Congratulations to all Angeles Chapter members who have received national Sierra Club awards this year. Recipients were honored September 26, 2009 at the Sierra Club's Honor and Awards Banquet in San Francisco.
BY PAUL CARLTON
Co-Chair, OC Global Warming Committee
The Orange County Global Warming Committee (OCGWC) has been in existence for just over one year and we have made considerable progress.
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BY ANNIE PHAM
Sierra Club California's 2009 Lobby Day was a smashing success! Dedicated volunteers from around the state traveled to Sacramento to urge their legislators to ramp up clean energy requirements and preserve our state parks.
Support the Sierra Club's labor-environmental partnership by joining with us to honor Hilda Solis and other promoters of green jobs at a catered reception at the Electric Training Institute. Tickets are $40, payable to the Angeles Chapter PAC. For more information, email political@angeles.sierraclub.org or call (818) 254-5427.
BY Coby Skye
On August 21, 2009, Congressman Henry Waxman, co-author the American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454), and State Senator Fran Pavley, author of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), hosted a lively forum regarding climate change at UCLA.
BY CHUCK BUCK AND BOB SMITH
OC Global Warming Committee
For the past four years, the Club's COOL CITIES CAMPAIGN has urge cities to adopt plans for improved energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The US Mayor's Agreement and California AB 32 provided targets for such reductions. At its creation last year,the Orange County Global Warming Committee felt that a follow-up, next step is now required.
We are at a historic crossroads in the fight against climate change. The Sierra Club is asking its activists and chapters to help in this critically important fight by committing to daily, weekly or monthly actions as a Sierra Club Climate Leader. Please go to: www.sierraclub.org/climateleaders and sign up.
By Jim Stewart
Co-chair, Angeles Chapter Global Warming, Energy & Air Quality Committee
The world's leaders are meeting this December in Copenhagen, Denmark to craft a new global treaty on cutting emissions. The problem is, the draft treaty currently being considered doesn't address the severity of the climate crisis. 350--as in parts per million concentration of carbon dioxide--is the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere that will support life on earth as we now know it.
BY CARA LAMB
When I got an e-mail saying I won an energy audit, I figured someone would come and spend an hour or two scolding us about the hot tub or trying to sell us new appliances and solar panels. It was only when I learned that the audit would take 8 hours that I started to believe it was real.
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