Culver City is Phasing Out And Cleaning Up Oil Wells -- and That’s a Big Deal

  • Posted on 30 June 2021
  • By Nicole Levin, Campaign Representative, Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign
Earlier this month, Culver City voted to phase out and clean up oil wells within the city’s borders by July 28, 2026. This vote is historic on multiple levels -- for starters, Culver City is one of the first cities in recent history to phase out existing oil production. The process, which included a study to inform the timeline to phase-out oil drilling, creates a pathway for the city and county of Los Angeles to follow. 
 

Angeles Chapter Environmental Social Justice (ESJ) Book Club

  • Posted on 7 June 2021
  • By Kim Orbe - Conservation Program Manager

Toxic Communities Recap and What’s Ahead!

The Angeles Chapter staff hosted our second environmental social justice (ESJ) book club last week Wednesday, June 2nd. For this meeting, we chose Dorceta Taylor's Toxic Communities. The book draws on an array of historical and contemporary case studies to explore the controversies over racist disparities, inequities, and discrimination that affect our communities of color. 
 

The Sierra Peaks Section

  • Posted on 7 June 2021
  • By Tina Bowman
Founded in 1955, the Sierra Peaks Section (SPS) offered its first official trip May 5-6, 1956, to Deer Mountain in the Southern Sierra. Membership in the section quickly grew from eighteen founders to 176 by 1960, and the SPS was by then leading twenty-five trips every summer. As Southern Sierra said at the time, it was “by far” the most active section. Our renowned founding member Barbara Lilley is still climbing peaks, and two others are still alive, possibly three more whose whereabouts are unknown.

Truth In Recycling

  • Posted on 7 June 2021
  • By Simone Kuhfal
The vast majority of people are being intentionally misled when it comes to recycling and don’t seem to know that most of what we recycle actually ends up in a landfill or the ocean. Senate Bill 343 has been introduced to reduce consumer misinformation about which plastics are recyclable by building on California’s “Truth in Environmental Advertising” law.
 

Your Share of the Brand

  • Posted on 7 June 2021
  • By Hoiyin Ip

“Sweat or pay” was my fair ask of fellow volunteers.

But for the severe financial impacts that COVID has brought to nonprofits, I’m asking proud Sierra Club members to pay a little extra. Here’s why.   

Innovative Wetlands Park in South LA

  • Posted on 3 June 2021
  • By Mathieu Bonin

Along Avalon and San Pedro boulevard, between 54th and 55th street, lies a little jewel called South Los Angeles Wetlandpark. Located in a historic and beautiful area called South Park, between the historic Central avenue and USC, this entire neighborhood is a mix of residential areas, beautiful old mansions, some patches of warehouses and factories.

South LA Wetlands Park

Hunters in California Ditch the Lead and Keep the Conservation Heritage

  • Posted on 25 May 2021
  • By Andrew Clare

Same tradition, different rules.

 
2020 saw recreation in our city centers severely limited, restricting human interactions and forcing isolation in homes. Supply chains were interrupted and panicked food shortages became the norm. Public land and beaches were periodically guarded by law enforcement. Amidst the chaos came a revived passion for the great outdoors and traditional harvesting methods from people who wanted to secure their own, natural food source.
 

Morgan Goodwin on Environmental Directions

  • Posted on 19 May 2021
  • By dbland

Listen to Angeles Chapter Senoir Director Morgan Goodwin talk with Nancy Pearlman on Environmental Directions. This international, award-winning interview radio series is the longest-running environmental program in the country.

Call for Angeles Chapter Executive Committee Candidates

  • Posted on 18 May 2021
  • By Angeles Nominating Committee
The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter nominating committee is looking for members from sections and groups across the Chapter to run for the chapter Executive Committee (ExCom).  We are striving for the Angeles Chapter leadership to reflect the diverse membership and population of the Los Angeles and Orange Counties. We believe that environmental injustice/climate change disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women and LGBTQ people.

Permits First

  • Posted on 3 May 2021
  • By Randy Kokal
You need a hunting license before you go hunting, a marriage license before you get married and the Poseidon desalination project needs to get their permits before they are allowed to operate.
 
Poseidon has asserted (with no evidence) that building a state of the art plant to minimize damage they will do to the sea life and the ocean is too expensive. Without any proof, they claim that slant wells, infiltration galleries, subsurface intakes, and removing the salt from their discharge, are too expensive.
 

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