The Palisadian-Post has partnered with locally founded environmental organization Resilient Palisades to deliver a “green tip” to our readers in each newspaper. This edition’s tip was written by Lisa Kaas Boyle, an environmental attorney, co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition and member of the Resilient Palisades Zero Waste team.
Since Resilient Palisades was founded five years ago to help sustain our vibrant village between the mountains and the sea, our teams of local volunteers have organized and acted to bring many gifts to the community.
In the spirit of the holidays, this seasonal recap lists some of 2024’s gifts that keep giving.
1. Zero Waste Team’s Choose to Reuse Campaign provided reusable foodware—cups and cutlery—to locals who borrowed them for parties and other events through our website. We gave out hundreds of reusable organic cotton produce bags at Pacific Palisades Farmers Market. We held our first Community Clothing Swap. We provided expert testimony at local public hearings about the advantages of natural ground cover instead of plastic turf in dog parks and children’s playing fields; and our Commit to Compost campaign initiated several strategies for composting our food scraps as individuals and as a community.
2. Clean Air and Water Team helped purchase 50 electric leaf blowers for gardeners who agreed to replace their gas-powered blowers.
3. Clean Energy Team helped over 50 Palisadian homes get rooftop solar and storage, reducing users’ energy costs and costs to the environment. To participate, email solar@resilientpalisades.org.
4. Plant Based Solutions Team held three Veg Fests this year in the village, introducing the community to a wide variety of vegan foods. Watch for news of the next Veg Fest on January 26, 2025.
5. Water Sages Team hosted a spring webinar about, followed by an in-person tour of, the Westwood Greenway native plant restoration; co-hosted a fall native plant sale at the Village Green with California Native Plant Society; and hosted a three-part fall webinar on California native plants by expert Antonio Sanchez.
6. This was the inaugural year for the Environmental Advocate Awards. Congratulations to our awardees: Shawna Ashley, Clementine Causse and Sarah Soroosh Moghadam, Palisades Charter High School seniors who each received $1,000 to continue their environmental work.
7. Resilient Palisades took field trips to Hyperion Waste Water Treatment Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world, and to Westwood Greenway, a project that cleans water while providing an island of native habitat for birds, butterflies and other animals.
8. Resilient Palisades partnered with the Palisadian-Post to share twice-monthly Green Tips, simple ways to foster a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
9. Even with rain, which is always needed, we held our annual Earth Day festivities on the Village Green with music, education and food.
10. And for the partridge in the pear tree: RP brought you a prize-winning 4th of July “Happy Days” float showcasing The Fonz with a giant electric leaf blower to celebrate our electric leaf blower program.
Resilient Palisades gave all these gifts to our village, but the biggest gift of all has been the community we’ve fostered, built around caring for each other and our environment. If you would like to join one of our action teams and/or further our work with a donation, contact us on our website: resilientpalisades.org.
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