The Once and Future Planet
April 22, 2021
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Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club Recap and What's Next!
April 5, 2021
The Angeles Chapter staff has committed to organizing a book club that focuses on themes centered on Environmental Social Justice. Our intention is to create a space where individuals from all ages and backgrounds can come together to read and...
Subscribe to the Desert Report!
April 1, 2021
Deserts surrounding Los Angeles:
When the name Los Angeles is heard, people from outside southern California immediately see images of smog, traffic, museums, and social problems. Those of us who live here, know better. Los Angeles County includes...
Western Joshua Trees: To Protect or Not to Protect?
March 23, 2021
That is the Question: Should western Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) receive legal protection in California?
Joshua Tree by Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0)
In September 2020, western Joshua trees were granted candidate status under...
Celebrating World Water Day - The Angeles Chapter Way
March 1, 2021
WatCom tours MWD/ LA Sanitation Recycled Water Pilot Project, March 2020 before shutdown.
Dear Reader,
This March we celebrate water to coincide with World Water Day, March 22nd. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness...
Mapping Our Water
February 25, 2021
GIS Committee Maps for Angeles Chapter Water Committee
The GIS and Water Committee first partnered up many years ago on the Water Conservation Measures Scorecard project, then on a map of California Lakes and WaterWays. Recently several maps...
What's the Sierra Club California Water Committee and Why Do We Need It?
February 25, 2021
The Sierra Club California Water Committee is an issue committee that reports to the California Conservation Committee, the organization that sets Sierra Club's environmental policy for the State of California. Thus the State Water Committee is...
Poseidon's Toxic Desalination Proposal
February 23, 2021
The people behind the Poseidon project feel Orange County residents do not pay enough for water. They feel that residents can and should pay. They see a potential profit in each glass of water, each shower and each toilet flush. Their...
Ocean Desalination Meets Homelessness?
February 23, 2021
Tents propped in Echo Park, Los Angeles John Nilsson all rights reserved
Who would think it? Ocean desalination intersecting with affordable housing?- Yet it has, in a little known state government agency called the California Debt Limit...
Water Equity and COVID-19
February 23, 2021
Water Equity and COVID- 19 or Is Water Inequality A More Apt Description?
Health care professionals have reassured the public that you can’t catch COVID-19 from drinking water, but what if you have other worrisome things in your water?...