Composting at home is one of the simplest ways to cut waste and nourish soil. While LA’s green-bin program collects food scraps, home composting avoids extra truck emissions and produces nutrient-rich fertilizer. Most kitchen scraps—like citrus peels, eggshells, coffee grounds and paper—can be composted, while meat, dairy and produce stickers should be avoided. Set up a small indoor container for scraps and transfer them to a backyard bin, heap or tumbler. Resilient Palisades

Imported produce often travels thousands of miles before reaching our homes, generating emissions from transportation and refrigeration. By choosing locally grown foods—like those at the Palisades farmers market—we can dramatically cut our carbon footprint and support sustainable food systems.

Many Americans don’t realize their banks invest heavily in fossil fuel expansion, making the financial sector a major global emitter. This green tip explains how to assess your bank’s climate impact, identify truly climate-safe alternatives, and understand how switching banks can drive meaningful change.

We’re all becoming more aware of the benefits of leaning vegan or going whole hog, from sustainability and reducing animal suffering to preventing disease. But many people still question whether a vegan diet is healthy.

As we go through daily life, most of us don’t realize how often we rely on plastic. While we can’t avoid it entirely, we can avoid wasting it.

Recycled clothing is gaining momentum as a sustainable trend. By choosing garments and accessories made from reused materials—like plastics, cotton, cashmere, and metals—we cut down on waste, conserve natural resources, and reduce pollution. Major brands such as Adidas, Patagonia, Bagatiba, and Green Toys are proving that high-quality products can come entirely from recycled materials.

Veganuary began in 2014 with a simple idea: try eating vegan for 31 days and see how good it feels—for your body, for animals, and for the planet. Participation has now surpassed 600,000 people worldwide. This week’s Green Tip from Resilient Palisades explores why more people are giving it a try and how easy it can be to start.

The Palisadian-Post has partnered with locally founded environmental organization Resilient Palisades to deliver a weekly “green tip” to our readers. This week’s tip was written by Nika Nazarizadeh. Taking initiative is what’s required to save our planet—which is exactly what is being rewarded in Prince William’s annual Earthshot Prize competition. The most impactful green tech inventions found in a global search will receive prizes of $1.2 million. The first Earthshot winne

Americans use a quarter of the world’s energy, much of it generated from natural gas. This week’s Green Tip offers simple, practical ways to reduce electricity use at home, from choosing ENERGY STAR appliances to relying more on natural light, unplugging devices, and rethinking heating and cooling habits.

Holiday gift giving often comes with a lot of waste, especially from traditional wrapping paper that contains glitter, plastic, and dyes. This week’s Green Tip shares simple, creative, and sustainable ways to wrap gifts using materials you already have at home, along with options for recyclable wrapping paper.

The world just reached eight billion people, but the climate crisis is not driven equally by everyone. This week’s Green Tip looks at why carbon emissions are concentrated among the wealthiest countries and individuals, and why solving the climate crisis requires addressing consumption rather than simply counting population.

The latest United Nations climate talks in Sharm el Sheikh brought a historic breakthrough on climate justice with the creation of a global “loss and damage” fund, along with renewed commitments on methane reduction and the 1.5 degree target. This week’s Green Tip highlights what was achieved at COP27, what fell short, and why individual climate action at home still matters.

Thanksgiving is a time to appreciate our community, our clean air and water, and the natural beauty that surrounds us. It is also a reminder that what we choose to put on our plates has real consequences for the planet. This week’s Green Tip looks at the climate impact of a traditional holiday meal and shares simple plant-forward swaps that can reduce emissions without sacrificing celebration.

While global plastic production is increasing at alarming rates, plastic recycling is plummeting in the U.S. In 2021, the U.S. produced 51 million tons of plastic waste but—because countries like China have stopped receiving U.S. plastic—only recycled 2.4 million tons, or 5%.

On behalf of the Resilient Palisades Gas-Free Gardens campaign, we are excited to tell you about our New Leaf Blower Program: Palisadians partnering with their gardeners to go electric! In California, gas-powered gardening equipment is the dominant source of smog—more than all of the passenger cars on our roads (CA Air Resources Board, 2017). This equipment is also an unnecessary source of greenhouse gases and localized air pollution, including benzene and formaldehyde.

A couple of years ago, my family received notice from our homeowner’s insurance that our policy would not be renewed because we were in a “high wildfire zone,” according to the insurer’s assessment.

Proposition 30 would raise state taxes on Californians who make $2 million or more in a year. The money collected, estimated at $3.5 billion to $5 billion in annual revenue, would be used to subsidize electric cars and charging stations (80% of the funds). The rest would go toward wildfire safety (20% of the funds).

With community solar, you subscribe to the right to use a remotely located solar farm’s electricity as it generates power for the grid.

We have yet to see climate action plans from Los Angeles mayoral candidates. On every level, we need to put pressure on governments to commit to halving emissions from their 2010 levels by 2030 and to net-zero by 2050, as called for by climate scientists.

The Palisadian-Post has partnered with locally founded environmental organization Resilient Palisades to deliver a weekly “green tip” to our readers. This week’s tip was written by Éva Milan Engel. Americans are feeling intensifying impacts of the climate crisis: extreme heat across the country, including the miserable “heat dome” that gripped California last week, record-breaking floods across the South and Midwest, drought in the West stressing water supplies that millions