Category Archives: Environmental
Sunflower Project to Restore Beauty
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...
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Cycad Recovery after the Fire
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...
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Youth Climate Protest Calls for Making Polluters Pay Act
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)....
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VIEWPOINT: Turf Wars: What’s the Verdict?
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...
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“No Oil” Started in Pacific Palisades: Today “No Oil” 2025
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...
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Insurance Not Paying Standing Home Remediation
(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....
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Orchid Lovers Will Have Two Great Opportunities
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...
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Major Rainstorm Prompts Numerous Evacuation Texts
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...
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Metro Proposes a Subway or Aerial through Sepulveda: Residents Asked to Select by Aug. 30
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...
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People Purchased Pali Flags, Money Will Go for Trees
The Palisades Fire destroyed nearly 7,000 structures but not counted were the numerous trees that burned -or were chopped down after the fire. To kickstart the planting of new trees, a $18,000 check was handed to the Palisades Forestry committee...
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