My Experience as a Water Board Director
February 22, 2021
The late matriarch of Los Angeles environmental groups, Dorothy Green, wrote a book that focuses on Southern California water and water agencies: Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California.
If you live in the city of Los Angeles,...
Zombie Tunnel Project back to life as the Delta Conveyance
February 22, 2021
For many years we have opposed this project through its many iterations. The Peripheral Canal of the 80’s, the Bay Delta Conservation Project of the 00’s, the California WaterFix & Eco Restore Project of the 10’s and now the 20...
Will Barons of Blue Water be More Equitable than those of Black Oil?
February 17, 2021
http://www.owenslakeproject.com/ This photo was posted in The Lake on April 28, 2016.
Many of today’s under-resourced communities have no more access to blue gold (scarce water) than the under-resourced white residents of the Owens...
What's in your Water
February 17, 2021
A Water Quality Gradebook for LA and OC's Drinking Water
Hollywood Reservoir, Hollywood, California. A major storage area for LA's fresh water needs. John Nilsson all rights reserved
As part of the Sierra Club’s long-standing...
Webinar: Mountain Lions as Neighbors
January 29, 2021
Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation and leader of the #SaveLACougars campaign, gives a talk about coexisting with mountain lions in the second largest city in the country, and the stories of some...
An Introduction: Who's Here for the Winter? The Birds!
January 7, 2021
When I began as a Sierra Club activist in 1992, working to protect the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach, the person who recruited me to join the Club asked me to go birding with him. I was terrified.
An...
Art, Plastics, and Politics
November 17, 2020
The intersection of arts and political activism are two fields defined by a shared focus of creating engagement that shifts boundaries, changes relationships, and creates new paradigms. For centuries, art has been used to create change and spread...
Directors Desk: The Anthropocene
October 1, 2020
More and more of us are realizing that this is what it’s like to live in the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene is generally considered to be the geologic age where humankind is the dominant force upon the surface of the...
New Native Species Series
October 1, 2020
Announcing a new series for our Website and Southern Sierran - Understanding Native Species, How to enjoy them, and How to protect them.
The magnificent Burrowing Owl; Paul Reinstein all rights reserved
We often talk...
Water A Public Resource: How Privatization Happens
July 31, 2020
Water has been a fundamental pillar of civilization since antiquity, and access to clean water is a basic universal right to be enjoyed by us all. As it is our most vital resource, we each have a moral responsibility to see that everyone has access...