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Category Archives: Environmental
LETTER: Human Composting a New Way of Dealing with Dead Bodies
(Editor’s note: CTN wrote October 3 musings about a new law passed that would allow human composting. Forget the casket, forget the urn – Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill to allow human composting, aka “natural organic reduction.” Composting is … Continue reading
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Dr. Jane Goodall Visits Pacific Palisades
Scientist and activist Dr. Jane Goodall, who is known for her landmark studies of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, was a guest of Seven Arrows Elementary School on September 28. More than 500 students in kindergarten through high school from Seven … Continue reading
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Removal of Parkway Trees Needs to be Permitted.
“The onslaught of street tree removal by local developers continues,” a reader wrote and sent a photo of a tree that she felt was slated for removal. The reader wrote that this was one of many trees planted by Palisades … Continue reading
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Palisades Garden Club Meeting October 3 Will Feature Diana Roy
The Palisades Garden Club will meet via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 3. The speaker will be Diana Roy of the Resendiz Brothers Nursery. Her talk will focus on protea, pincushions, lecadendrons and other flowers that the … Continue reading
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PaliHi Students Engage Caruso at Climate Crisis Rally
By: BILL BRUNS, Circling the News Contributor Late last Friday afternoon, September 23, as the Global Climate Strike demonstration was ending on Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, one student shouted, “There’s Rick Caruso!” The Los Angeles Mayoral candidate (versus Karen … Continue reading
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Environmental Protest Rally Held on Swarthmore
By CHAZ PLAGER As part of the Global Climate Strike Protest on September 23, Pacific Palisades teens joined the rest of the world in protest against environmental damage. Originally created by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, who was nominated for the … Continue reading
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Smaller Pumps Installed in Temescal Rainwater Holding Tank
The construction, to ensure that the stormwater runoff in Temescal Canyon was cleaned – and reused – rather than rushing into the ocean, started in 2012. Now, 10 years later issues are being resolved to use that water to irrigate … Continue reading
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VIEWPOINT: What Goes on Behind Closed Doors Needs to be Aired
Westchester residents have been fighting to get the park back for children and seniors. In a misguided attempt to help, L.A. City officials allowed the homeless to live in tents around the periphery of the park. Then later, those same … Continue reading
Darling versus Park on the Community Council Agenda
If a resident is still trying to decide how the two CD 11 candidates, Traci Park and Erin Darling, stand on issues, they will appear via Zoom on the Pacific Palisades Community Council from 6 to 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, … Continue reading
Towering Eucalyptus Is Finally Trimmed at Sunset and Los Leones
Castellammare resident Kelly Comras, a veteran landscape architect, has long been concerned about the giant eucalyptus on Sunset by Fire Station 23, just north of PCH. “Over the last decade, the tree had become a serious hazard,” Comras told Circling the … Continue reading
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