We are upgrading our Bayou Banner newsletter to email and web format — still us old folks, but thinking young now.

With the new format, you can quickly scan down the articles, find what interests you, click the title of the article, and then read the details. And you can read it easily on your smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device. We get weekly reports of which articles are most popular, so we can give you more of what you like. The content is also more available to search engines, like Google Search.

If it's slow to download, you can "opt out" of displaying images, and the images you do see will be clearer, better resolution because we don't have to size them down to avoid a huge PDF file. We can also link easily to audio and video.

Because the new format is easier to create, we can deliver the newsletter monthly, and new articles appear daily on our News & Current Events page:

http://www.sierraclub.org/texas/houston/news-current-events

The disadvantage is that you cannot print it in page format, to feel that the good old days of paper are still here. You can certainly print any article from your computer, but it will not look the same. You also need internet access to follow the links to read more, but we even have that access on our phones now.

Comments or questions, send email to our Newsletter Editor: HSCBanner@gmail.com

Welcome to the new connected world.