Be sure to check out Summit on the Summit, a program sponsored by HP, PUR and First Ascent, in which Lupe Fiasco, Kenna, and Jessica Biel, among others, will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the clean water crisis.
For each person that joins the Facebook cause page, HP will donate $1.
The program unfolds in [...]

Kudos to the Northern Sierra Partnership, an effort to buy undeveloped land in the Sierra Nevada in order to preserve them for future generations before any large scale building starts to occur.
Via Mercury News:

Jim and Becky Morgan of Los Altos Hills — he, the retired CEO of Applied Materials and she, a former Santa Clara [...]

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to keep California State Parks open, he didn’t stress how drastic some changes would be to deal with the 14.2 million dollar reduction in the Park budget.
A summary of the service reductions in store for most of California’s 278 state parks was created by the park superintendants to highlight the major [...]

Climate activism never looked so good. This comes from the fine folks at 350.org. Wondering where in the world the “350″ came from? Well, according to their website:
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis–the solutions that science and justice demand.
Our mission is [...]

After months of waiting, two popular bouldering areas located in the hills above Santa Barbara have reopened to public use.  The Brickyard, a remarkable sandstone boulderfield that holds such classics as Yeti (V4) and Grotesque Old Woman (V7), and The Playground, a bouldering destination that also has 20+ sport routes, have been closed since the Gap [...]

Be sure to check out Inhabitat’s video webinar with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom tomorrow.
What: Inhabitat Green talks with Gavin Newsom
When: Wednesday at 12:00 pm PT
Where: Online Video Webinar
Register: Sign up here
Via Inhabitat:

CALLING ALL SAN FRANCISCANS & those of you who want to green your cities!
We’re interviewing San Francisco mayor GAVIN NEWSOM next Wednesday the 28th [...]

The Mammoth and Mono Lake Ranger districts together with the BLM office in Bishop, CA have scheduled several fire projects during the upcoming fall and winter months to reduce hazardous fuel buildup and to improve the condition of wild habitats.
According to the press release from the U.S. Forest Service, the prescribed burns will be scattered throughout Mono County [...]

Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.
They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the [...]

The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on the actions proposed to deal with invasive plant species on National Forest lands in the Lake Tahoe Area.
According to the public letter issued by the Forest Service, chemical treatment is proposed for approximately 100 acres of infested area, and alternative treatments (manual, [...]

With more than 4,800 actions planned across 179 countries the International Day of Climate Change, scheduled tomorrow October 24,  has the potential to become the largest public demonstration devoted to climate issues ever.
The events are being coordinated and publicized by 350.org, a group devoted to raising awareness of climate change.  According to the interactive map [...]