Category Archives: Environmental
Community Brush Clearance on April 25
By ALLISON HOLDOFF POHILL and MAY SUNG In a powerful display of resilience and unity, the Pacific Palisades community is coming together for a massive Brush Clearance Clean-Up on Saturday, April 25, from 8 a.m. to noon. Organized by Council...
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Resilient Palisades Holds Earthday Event on April 19
Resilient Palisades will hold an EarthDay and VegFest from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, at the Palisades Village Green, at 15280 Sunset Boulevard. Organizers write “We are bringing Earth Day and Veg Fest back to the...
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Palisades Beautiful Making an Impact: Completes Planting on Bowdoin
Palisades Beautiful, a group formed in the 1970s to plant trees, had gone defunct . . .until Noah Martin revitalized the group in February 2025. The group recently spent time planting the hillside above Bowdoin Street, across from the Palisades...
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Student-Led TREEAMS Revitalize Temescal with Trees/Shrubs
Across from Palisades High School and behind the historic Aldersgate building on Temescal Canyon Road, a tree and shrub planting took place March 20 through TREEAMS (Together, Revitalizing Environments and Elevating Awareness by Mobilizing Society). TREEAMS is a Seven Arrows...
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Brush Clearance Now a Town Project
People are being urged to buy a weed whacker and join the fun on Saturday, April 25. Clear your parkway, or your neighbors, and if you’re not building yet, trim those weeds. Everyone in the Palisades is urged to join...
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Another Wellness and Renewal Fair . . .And Free Trees
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass sponsored a wellness, support and renewal resource fair on Saturday, March 28. Most residents have lost track of how many of these community wellness events have been held in the past year. AECOM, a global infrastructure...
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Proposed Undergrounding Plans Presented by DWP
Even as the City and AECOM seem to have problems showing concise rebuilding plans, the Pacific Palisades Community Council’s infrastructure committee headed by Reza Akef presented an informative look at what the next steps are for undergrounding utility lines and...
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Orchid Meeting to Highlight Sobralias
The monthly meeting of the Malibu Orchid Society will be at 7 p.m. on Zoom on Tuesdday, March 17. This month’s speaker is Tim Culbertson who will speak on Sobralias, a delightful genus with stunning beautiful flowers that can be...
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City Gives Residents the Finger
Despite pleas from residents to save a California Sycamore, city workers aided by eight police officers took a chainsaw to the tree that was located on 15150 La Cruz drive, next to the Pharmaca building, leaving a stump. “We hate...
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Raptors Receive Perches, Owls Nesting Homes
When Max Szymanski had to select a Eagle Scout project with Troop 223, his thoughtful, and necessary project, was building predatory purchases and owl boxes. Szymanski, 15, took an agriculture and environment class when he was at Paul Revere Middle...
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