Parable of the Sower Book Club Recap & What's Next!

  • Posted on 10 September 2021
  • By Kimberly Orbe- Conservation Program Manager
Can’t stop, won’t stop! Last month the Angeles Chapter staff and 12 amazing participants gathered to discuss the Environmental Social Justice Book Club’s third read of the year, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. 
 

Wilderness Travel Course Returns for 2022

  • Posted on 10 September 2021
  • By Jane Simpson
Since 1989, the Angeles Chapter’s Wilderness Travel Course (WTC) has helped thousands of hikers build outdoor skills and gain new friendships and personal growth on inspiring adventures. With a core curriculum that includes navigation, rock scrambling, snow travel, mountain safety, and more, the 10-week course lays a foundation for responsible and safer traveling in local and distant wilderness areas in places beyond roads and trails. 
 

Local Angeles Chapter Volunteers Gather for the First Time Since COVID Lockdown to Celebrate National Awardees

  • Posted on 25 August 2021
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Angeles Chapter held an in-person awards reception for local leaders who have received national awards this year and last year Saturday evening at the One Park Plaza Garden on Wilshire Boulevard. Approximately 25 people came out to the small, informal gathering to mingle, celebrate the accomplishments of the awardees and give them their physical awards. 
 

Be The Change: Act for Infrastructure!

  • Posted on 18 August 2021
  • By Mercedes Macias
Join us on September 2nd for our CA: ACT for Infrastructure Action Party as we focus our efforts on lobbying Congressional and State Representatives to pass a bold infrastructure package in which climate change is the priority. Congress must pass a bill that makes the big, bold, and ambitious investments needed to tackle the climate crisis, achieve true environmental justice, and accelerate the transition to clean energy.

Volunteering for Invasive Plant Control in Angeles National Forest

  • Posted on 3 August 2021
  • By Bill Neill
During June and July I volunteered about 40 hours at controlling invasive non-native plants by herbicide application in several areas of the San Gabriel Mountains.  To perform this work professionally, I hold a Qualified Applicator License from CA Dept.

The Importance of Legal Arguments in Public Comments on Environmental Issues

  • Posted on 2 August 2021
  • By Everette Phillips
As we have discussed in other articles over time, sometimes public goods are protected explicitly, and sometimes they are protected by process.  When a protected public good is threatened explicitly, it is important to understand the specific laws that protect it.  When a public good is protected by process, then it is important to understand the process and the laws that protect the process. Most government agencies exist at the interface of “private goods:”and “public goods” and laws determining protections and processes like permits.

You Can Participate in Drawing the Lines!

  • Posted on 29 July 2021
  • By Sharon Koch & John Monsen

Why should you  participate in redistricting, the process of setting new congressional and state legislative boundaries?

 

Because it is easy, it matters, and you only have this opportunity every ten years.

 

Help Keep California Green!

  • Posted on 6 July 2021
  • By Angeles Chapter
The California Sierra Club Political Action Committee (PAC) is holding its annual fundraiser online Sunday, August 8th from 4 pm to 6 pm.   The PAC contributes to state and local candidates statewide.  
 

Help End the Destructive Legacy of Tobacco Waste

  • Posted on 1 July 2021
  • By Sierra Club
Hello All!
 
Sierra Club is currently recruiting new members to the Young Adult Advisory Board to lead statewide change to hold big tobacco companies accountable for the environmental destruction that they are causing. Tobacco Product Waste is the most littered single use plastic product, and releases toxic forever chemicals into our living environments. We need your help! Join our movement. 
 

Check out the Angeles Lower Peaks Committee

  • Posted on 1 July 2021
  • By Ron Schrantz
The Lower Peaks Committee and LPC list have been around for some time, since the 1990s.  It was the effort of several Hundred Peaks hikers some of who lived in Orange County.  They liked to hike the peaks in the Santa Ana Mountains most of which were not on the Hundred Peaks list (which listed peaks 5,000’ or higher). So, they got together and began to compile a list of peaks under 5,000’.
 

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