⋅ A FIRST PANDEMIC HIKE ⋅ On a clear day last November, two of us from Sierra Club ICO http://angelesico.org stand with a group of 25 youth at Topanga State Park’s Trippet Ranch. We stand here in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains, feeling the weight of Topanga’s history. We
⋅ OIL WELLS OF LA ⋅ 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
⋅ A PERFECT MARRIAGE ⋅ Do you know what it is like to be out in nature when you are missing one of your senses? At the Sierra Club’s Inspiring Connections Outdoors, angelesico.org we are finding out. We recently partnered with an agency called Hearts For Sight that encourages blind and
⋅ A SEASON OF WOES - FIRE AND ICE IN LA ⋅ Los Angeles January 2025: A terrible windstorm fanned the flames of 2 fires as they raged out of control for days. Most of the neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena burnt down. The evacuation system worked well, but
AN EVERCHANGING EARTH: What would the bottom of the sea sound like without the inventions of modern man? That would be the sound of Los Angeles millions of years ago in the Miocene era. Moving and colliding tectonic plates, earthquakes and crashing waves would replace the sounds of construction and