September 2002
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| High Speed Rail Gains Track-tion
by Charlene Barnes, Rajesh Krishnan, and Patrick Moore With polls showing State voters fed-up with congestion and recent Congressional hearings focusing on our State's gridlock and its costly economic impacts, California's high-speed rail is now gaining traction in Sacramento and elsewhere. |
| Environmental Impacts of Filling the Bay
The proposed runway expansion project at SFO would be an environmental disaster. Filling and paving nearly 1.5 square miles of the Bay will forever damage habitat, destroy wildlife, increase pollution, raise cancer rates, and further shrink the Bay. |
| Coyote Valley Planning Begins Again
by Dan Kalb Mayor Ron Gonzales has announced his hand-picked task force that will begin developing detailed plans for guiding future development in the South Bay's beautiful Coyote Valley. There are some crucial gaps in the new line-up. |
| Loma Prieta Pressures Rep. Anna Eshoo: No on Anti-Environmental Fast-Track
by Rafael Reyes In July, 2002, with the vote for the Bush administration's anti-environmental Fast-track bill approaching, the Loma Prieta Chapter took action to increase the pressure on swing voter Anna Eshoo, House representative from the 14th Congressional District. |
| Mountain Huts Need Helping Hands: You Can Help!
The Sierra Club owns and operates four backcountry huts in the Donner Summit/Lake Tahoe area for cross-country skiers and snowshoers during winter months. Each September and October, weekend work parties of volunteers help prepare the huts for another season. |
| Sierra Club Announces Support of Traffic
Congestion Relief & Safe School Bus Act
by Sarah Schaller Sierra Club California has endorsed the Traffic Congestion Relief & Safe School Bus Act, which will appear on the California statewide ballot as Proposition 51 on November 5, 2002. |
| Why Run for ExCom?
by Rafael Reyes The Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club is a remarkable organization. Someone can say to themselves, "Hey, I don't like what I'm seeing...I'm going to help do something about it." With that simple motivation they can join this venerable organization, run for office, become part of a great team, and do something. Those are the people we have on ExCom today and you can be one of them. |
| Schedule for 2002 Chapter & Group Elections
The Chapter and groups have combined their elections in 2002. The joint schedule is outlined in this article. |
| Beyond the Heat and the Hype
A Sierra Club National Report Logging interests and pro-business federal agencies claim that we need to destroy much of our wild forests to help prevent dangerous forest fires. In fact, the reverse is true: logging has been shown to multiply the risk of catastrophic forest fires. |
| Message to Forest Service is Clear: Protect Communities First
by Annie Strickler The Forest Service should redirect its resources to make protecting people and communities from wildfires its top priority, according to a plan released today by a coalition of environmental organizations. |
| Conserving Water: Our Most Precious Resource
by Sherri D. Osaka There are many ways to save and reuse water. Some are easy, inexpensive steps you can take today and others are more involved projects that you can plan for the future. Think of them as different levels on your road to honoring this abundant, yet precious resource. |
| Speak Up for a Clean, Green Ferry System
by Teri Shore The San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority is proposing a $600 million ferry expansion. Public hearings will be held in September and October. Please help us make sure any new ferry system will be the cleanest and best in the world. |
| U.S. Policy Threatens Global Population Stabilization
by Joan Jones Holtz Two days into his new administration, President George W. Bush reinstated the Global Gag Rule, preventing over 70 countries from receiving U.S. population and reproductive health care aid if they, with non-U.S. funds, provide legal abortion services or advocate legal abortion services. Why should the President's misguided actions concern us? |
| Cooking Green: Cooking Green: Plant-Based Food to Restore the Oceans: Healthy People, Healthy Oceans
by Kay Bushnell Few can resist this issue's recipe for leafy greens prepared Italian style with garlic, pine nuts, raisins, and olive oil. (This is the final installment in a four-part series on vegetarian alternatives to seafood.) |
| Meandering
by John Maybury Native plants, good news from Florida (for once), EPA greenwash, high-speed trains, and other items of interest. |