Category Archives: Environmental
Palisades Beautiful Recharged: Led by Martin
The original Palisades Beautiful, which was formed in the 1970s, planted more than 1,500 trees in Pacific Palisades. Starting with the Jacarandas on Northfield, it grew into a project that spanned across the Palisades. That organization shut down in the...
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The Right Landscaping Can Stop Fires
(Editor’s note: the following was written by Shawn Maestretti of Studio Petrichor for his newsletter and is reprinted with permission. He is a designer, licensed landscape architect and contractor, certified arborist, certified permaculture designer biospheric caretaker, speaker and educator. https://studio-petrichor.com/about/...
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More Thoughts about Landscaping after the Fire
A reader wrote: Thank you for the comments on landscaping. It is a good question with many issues. As the clover in our front yard inches up toward 10 inches (the back yard where the fire tried to take our...
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Support Salmon Swimming Upstream in Malibu
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has scheduled overnight lane closures for northbound and southbound State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway / PCH) from north of Corral Canyon Road to south of the Malibu Beach RV Park for utility work...
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Saving the Cycads, a Rescue Mission
When my son, now 31, was a seventh grader at Paul Revere Middle School, he brought home a “seedling” stuck in dirt in a cup. “Mom, this is a prehistoric plant, it is as old at dinosaurs.” One of the...
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Black Soot Water Fills the Santa Monica Canyon Flood Control Channel
There is an expression “speaking out of both sides of your mouth.” That was in evidence at the February 13, Pacific Palisades Community Council with Vahid Khorsand (Board of Public Works Director), Julie Allen (Assistant Director of LASAN), Ted Allen...
California Air Resource Board Says “We Don’t Raise Prices”
All the major news media are predicting that fuel prices may go up as high 65 cents a gallon in 2025 and maybe as high as 90 cents. The result of those prices is that the average Californian driving a...
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Malibu Orchid Society Members Plants Win First
At the upcoming Malibu Orchid Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 19, not only will Carol Helen Beule speak on Sacrochilius Orchids and how to grow them, but several members will also be recognized for plants that placed at the...
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CalTrans Supports Castellammare Residents
L.A. City Planning had tentatively approved four large homes to be built on an active landslide on Tramonto in the Castellammare area of Pacific Palisades. The residents were against the development, not because they didn’t want the homes, but rather...
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City Is Paying Settlement Claims for Hoffman vs. City of Los Angeles
Palisades and other Los Angeles residents are receiving checks through a class action lawsuit, Hoffman vs. City of Los Angeles because of sewer litigation. The City overcharged certain customers of L.A. Sanitation for residential property sewer services (May 4,2016 through...
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