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To: The Honorable Mayor Karen Bass and Members of the Los Angeles City Council,   The Sierra Club has recently learned about the pending evictions of 558 households in the Barrington Plaza apartment complex. We are very concerned that...

The Orange County Conservation Committee of the Sierra Club has been actively involved in a most important project to stop the rezoning of a 29-acre site that sits less than a mile from Huntington State Beach near the Huntington Beach Wetlands - the...

The United Nations launched its Cool Cities Challenge at the Sharm El-Sheikh meeting in 2022 to encourage cities to enhance the number of nature-based cooling solutions within their boundaries because cities are warming twice as fast as the global...

Taking up Space for Nature Stewardship from the Heart : Reflecting on ‘Fotos y Recreo’ Latino Conservation Week Celebration  A decade of Latino Conservation Week signifies not just growth, but a deeper understanding of...

August is giving us stellar reasons to look up! We get to see two full moons at the beginning and end of the month plus the Perseids meteor shower in the middle of August. And here on Terra Firma, our fundraising efforts are illuminated by members...

This map showcases both the existing national monument areas and the newly proposed ones. These areas are of great significance due to their natural beauty, cultural heritage, and ecological importance. President Obama established the 346,000-...

  Join the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club and other local organizations in celebrating its Second Annual Latino Conservation Week Event and LCW 10th year anniversary! We are excited to host another unique event that invites our...

It’s Plastic Free July!    Perhaps the biggest local plastic news of the month so far is that LAX banned the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. Hotels can do this too. Let’s go push our Cities and Counties for the ban...

This Spring, a wind storm wreaked havoc in Northern California, leaving over 160,000 residents without power, many enduring up to two full days without electricity.    We understand the impact of these outages in our interconnected world...

For many years I didn’t know that I lived near so many oil wells in my dense Los Angeles neighborhood. That office building about ¼ mile from me?  It’s a façade for a recently closed oil and gas extraction site. The building...