LETTERS AND EMAILS

  • Posted on 31 May 2009
  • By The Editor

Thanks to Carol Henning for her story, Neighbors' Plans for Expansion May Spell Trouble for Griffith Park, in the April issue.

Stephen V. Hymowitz
Sierra Club Life Member

Dear Friends:

What a great column Sandra Cattell wrote in the March Southern Sierran, titled Our Most Precious Resource. It echoes a speech I made on behalf of the Sierra Club in 1999 before a panel of the U.S.

LOBBY DAY IS AUGUST 23, 24 mark your calendars!

  • Posted on 31 May 2009
  • By The Editor

The annual Lobby Day takes place Sunday and Monday August 23rd and 24th. You will be part of a team that will help Sierra Club California pass our priority bills during the most exciting and challenging time of the year at the State Capitol. You will have opportunities for interaction with other activists and our professional lobbying staff, as well as with legislators and their staff.

THE ECOLOGY OF LOVING AND LEAVING YOUR CELL PHONE

  • Posted on 30 April 2009
  • By The Editor

BY SARAH MOSKO, PHD.

It's not much of a stretch to liken America's relationship with cell phones to a once sizzling romance that ends in good bye.

Fated love affairs typically begin with blind infatuation and fiery passion before reality sets in, cooling the embers enough to allow more guarded, sometimes less attractive aspects of the self to surface. Interest wanes until the love object is abandoned or replaced by an alluring new one.

MCLEAN CD GIVES YOU FLOWER POWER AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

  • Posted on 30 April 2009
  • By The Editor

BY MICHAEL GOSNELL

As an avid hiker in the San Gabriels, I always had a nagging urge to learn about the plants that I saw and smelled. Finally, a few years back, I decided to learn more about my surroundings in these beloved mountains. Surprisingly, in an area with millions of people, there is no decent handbook of plants for the beginning botanist. Luckily, Gabi and Cliff McLean have filled this gap with an amazing CD, Plants of the San Gabriel Mountains: Foothills and Canyon(Nature at Hand-see natureathand.com for where to purchase).

Join Airport-Marina For the Do's and Don'ts of Mountain Ecotourism on May 18

  • Posted on 30 April 2009
  • By The Editor
Colette Simonds and the mountains she loves
PHOTO Courtesy of OFPRINKITI LA

Mountain Ecotourism will be presented by Colette Simonds, a veteran scaler of the Himalayas and the Andes, at the May 18 meeting of the Airport-Marina group of the Sierra Club. She confessed that she only made it to 21,000 feet on the Himalayas in Nepal.

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