Category Archives: Environmental

Temescal Canyon Association Will Host Speakers

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

  Temescal Canyon Association will hold its annual meeting from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 13. The meeting will be held and broadcasted in person at Rustic Canyon Recreation Center Gallery at 601 Latimer Rd. Santa Monica, CA … Continue reading →

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Sunflower Project to Restore Beauty

Posted on December 9, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

A Palisades resident is inviting Pacific Palisades residents who have not started rebuilding to participate in the Sunflower project. This is a community-driven ecological restoration.  A team will cultivate native sunflowers lot-by-lot through the Palisades to help remediate fire-affected soil … Continue reading →

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Cycad Recovery after the Fire

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Cycads are a prehistoric plant, living in the time of dinosaurs. Some of the rarer ones are on the verge of extinction. My son brought home a “seedling” of a cycad in seventh grade when he was in Mr. Honda’s … Continue reading →

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Youth Climate Protest Calls for Making Polluters Pay Act

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

  Students from Palisades Charter High School and Santa Monica High School held a coordinated climate strike at the Santa Monica Pier on November 14, urging California lawmakers to advance the Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act (AB 1243/SB 684). … Continue reading →

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VIEWPOINT: Turf Wars: What’s the Verdict?

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

This editor used cloth diapers for her three children, because disposable diapers are made with plastic materials and can break down over time into microplastics. A diaper company delivered cloth diapers to the doorstep, picked up the dirty ones and … Continue reading →

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“No Oil” Started in Pacific Palisades: Today “No Oil” 2025

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Councilmember Traci Park stood at a podium overlooking Venice Beach. Surfers  below were catching waves as flocks of birds dived and flew over the Pacific Ocean. Fishermen were trying their luck off the pier. Park, standing with Councilmember Tim McOsker … Continue reading →

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Insurance Not Paying Standing Home Remediation

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(The video is the property of Gary Baum.) People watching Palisades and Altadena residents after the January Fires wonder why people haven’t gone back to their standing homes. People also wonder why more people are not rebuilding. One word. Insurance. … Continue reading →

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Orchid Lovers Will Have Two Great Opportunities

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Orchid Show and Sale: One of the nation’s top orchid shows, the ninth annual Huntington Orchid Show and Sale will take place this weekend October 17 to 19 at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (Brody Center), 1151 … Continue reading →

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Major Rainstorm Prompts Numerous Evacuation Texts

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Sharon Kilbride captured the rain runoff as it went through the Santa Monica Canyon channel (above) on its way to the ocean (below).   Unlike the Palisades Fire, when evacuation notices were nonexistent or seemed to go to everyone in … Continue reading →

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Metro Proposes a Subway or Aerial through Sepulveda: Residents Asked to Select by Aug. 30

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

It seems the one fact that people in Los Angeles and surrounding areas can agree on is that traffic through the Sepulveda pass can be excruciating, especially during rush hour. It takes afternoon peak period commuters on average 48 minutes … Continue reading →

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