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On September 15th, the Forest Protection Committee and the San Carlos Belmont Group hosted a Wildfire Summit at the College of San Mateo to raise awareness of the threat of wildfires in California.

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In December of 2011, the Lehigh Cement lawsuit was filed, and thus started a series of changes. Lehigh Hanson Cement Plant, owned by Hanson Permanente Cement, a longtime producer of Silicon Valley building materials was charged a $7.5 million fine...

  Meat. Juicy, chewy meat. In your burrito, on your pizza, as your steak. It’s delicious, isn’t it? But each juicy bite holds consequences, consequences that reveal themselves in our environments, communities, and health. Most Americans eat...

  The mountain tops of Jumbo Valley sparkle and shimmer with pure and untouched snow. A blanket of clean white covers the entire wild valley. Wild grizzly bears, a population that has been extinct in California since 1922, call this valley...

（By Michelle Lee） Not too long ago—on Thursday, January 4, 2018—the Trump administration proposed to open up almost the entire United States coastal waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. More than one billion acres in the Arctic, as well as...

（By Tanli Su） In the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Paul Hawken states emphatically that reducing the gender gap in developing countries is one of the most important solutions to combating...

Tanli Su, a student at Palo Alto High School, was the recipient of the inaugural Lennie Roberts Youth Award given by the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental advocacy. The award was given in recognition of Tanli’s...

（By Tanli Su） Each day in the U.S., idling cars emit a total of 40,000 tons of carbon monoxide and waste $13 million and 3.8 million gallons of fuel. Reducing idling is a simple and effective lifestyle eco-action that will simultaneously improve...