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Join us Earth Day, Monday April 22nd for lively presentation and Q&A with Sempervirens Fund Executive Director Reed Holderman. PG Sunnyvale – 4/22 at 8pm Since being founded in 1900, the Sempervirens Fund is California’s oldest land trust and the only organization exclusively devoted to permanently protecting the coastal redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Read more…
The Access Fund (AF) has just released a position paper on the newest draft of the Merced River Plan (MRP). The paper briefly mentions some of the major actions that the plan proposes, and highlights four specific areas that the Access Fund is urging the Yosemite Planners and National Park Service (NPS) to consider more Read more…
Traffic in Nairobi is horrible. Truly. 45 minutes into my (ridiculously expensive) cab ride I was regretting my decision to check out East Africa’s new (and only) climbing gym. Needless to say I was NOT in a good mood when I arrived at Diamond Plaza last month. Looking up at the shopping mall (yes shopping Read more…
Many of you know PG Coach Stacey Collver – 9 years ago, Stacey was diagnosed with a rare lung disease and received a double-lung transplant one year later. Although she has recovered well from the double-lung transplant, with approximately 54% lung function and 1/3 the immune system, she is still legally disabled, needs financial Read more…
In 2012, as part of our PG Gives Back $1/member/month giving program, Planet Granite donated $10,000 to the Big City Mountaineers (BCM) to get youth climbing! BCM has visisted Planet Granite a couple times this year, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I sat down with Anders, the Program Manager for BCM to talk Read more…
As part of our PG Gives Back program, we pledged to match up to $20,000 of funds raised between Oct 1-15th, 2012 for the American Safe Climbing Association. As part of our pledge, we hosted a Live Auction Fundraiser with guest speaker Tommy Caldwell! With tons of donated auction items and lots of psyche for Read more…