The Awards Committee invites all Angeles Chapter entity chairs to submit nominees for the 2011 chapter awards. The submission deadline is Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Submissions can be sent any time before that date. Late applications will be held over for the 2012 awards, so earlier is better to ensure all candidates are honored in a timely way.
Education is the theme of this Southern Sierran, and certainly teaching children about the wonders of the ecosystem that sustains us is supremely important. But, what is offered to college-age young people or to older adults ready for career change or enhancement? Various programs are provided by UCLA, ranked in the top 10 eco-enlightened universities in the nation by Sierra Magazine (2009).
'When can we go camping again. Grandma?' asked my four year old granddaughter.
Those words gave me goose bumps, because nothing is more satisfying to me than sharing the out of doors with young people, especially my nearest and dearest.
To begin, with, not everyone in my family agreed that taking preschoolers camping was a good idea. When I told my older and childless son, the long distance solo hiker, that I was taking the girls camping, he replied 'Count me out. They're too young I'll wait til they're older.'
As efforts to fight climate change by replacing fossil fuels with solar and other renewables accelerate, the Sierra Club is testing another tactic aimed at catalyzing widespread deployment of clean energy: the Solar Homes Initiative.
Reliable supplies of drinking water are so essential to cities for the well-being of their residents and a healthy local economy that cities have become the frontline for investing in sustainable water strategies. In Southern California cities have begun to respond to declining supplies of both local and imported drinking water resources for the foreseeable future.
Drinking water from the sea? Ocean water desaUnation (desal) sounds like a great idea. JFK once said that it would be a greater achievement than putting a man on the moon. Most polls have shown a 70 percent acceptance rate of the idea. But do we need it? Can we afford it? And what wouLd its envi- ronmental impacts be?
Join the Centennial Committee and help plan the Angeles Chapter's 100th Birthday bash. This is a big deal! Fun! Exciting! Glamorous! Good times! Volunteers from all across the Angeles Chapter are invited to participate in planning the activities associated with this gala celebration (1911-2011) we're planning a celebration for November 5th and can use a helping hand!
An oil spilt that contaminated a storm drain pool and the Rio Hondo River in Southern California is under investigation by California Fish and Wildlife detetmine if the oil field operator violated water pollution laws. The investigation was triggered after members of the Sierra Club's Save the Montebello Hills Task Force. provided evidence to the media that this was not the first spill in the same location.
Now in its fourth year, this water-focused edition of the Southern Sierran launches the rollout of our most ambitious prolect to date: our scorecard for water conservation measures throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties. Two years in the making, our scorecard ranks cities based on their mandatory or voluntary Water conservation measures To learn about the water where you live and work. see How Green is Your Water of this issue.
As water reaources become increasingly scarce in California, attention has turned to ways to make the best use of the water that we have. One such method of stretching our water supply is direct potabte reuse. Direct potable reuse as the introduction of highly treated recycled water either directly into the potable water distribution downstream of a water treatment plant (i.e., pipe-to-pipe), or into a raw water supply immediately upstream of a water treatment plant.
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