CAMPAIGNS AND INITIATIVES
Resilient Palisades began as a group of neighbors who believed we could make a difference. And we were going to do it together.
We grew quickly. Everyone seemed to know someone else who cared about the same things we did, and before long, we realized that if we wanted to turn all that energy into action, we needed teams.
That decision helped shape Resilient Palisades into what it is today. Instead of limiting what our organization could work on, teams allowed more people to lead, more ideas to grow and more neighbors to get involved.
Our teams continue to grow and evolve. If you are passionate about something that can make our community better, we want to make space for it. Resilient Palisades can give you the platform, support and community to turn an idea into an initiative and find neighbors and volunteers who want to build it with you.
Some of our best work started because one person had an idea and decided to act on it. What’s yours?
Our Teams
Electrify the Rebuild highlights the safety, health, and long-term cost benefits of switching from methane gas to electric appliances and seeks to eliminate fire hazards associated with gas and reduce indoor air pollution.
Our Veg Fest campaign has focused on bringing delicious vegan food to the Palisades in a series of Veg Fest food truck events. We conduct outreach to help Palisadians embrace and enjoy delicious plant-based alternatives to animal products to reduce our environmental impact while promoting cruelty-free eating practices and personal health.
Making low waste choices easier and more accessible through practical community programs, from neighborhood clean-ups, free reusable cups, cutlery and bags to Choose to Reuse, composting and education that helps keep waste out of landfills.
Resilient Palisades is partnering with local recovery leaders to create a scalable model for equitable, community-led wildfire recovery grounded in soil bioremediation and landscape restoration.
2024 was the inaugural year for the Environmental Advocate Awards. For 2025, we were privileged to recognize five graduates who, throughout their high school careers, championed climate justice while contending with the effects of a global pandemic and recovering from the Palisades fire.
The Water Sages team aims to help our community conserve water, expand water reuse and rainwater capture, and move toward native plants which are drought tolerant, fire resistant, and enhance our local ecosystems.
Through dedicated management efforts and evidence-based removal techniques, we work to reverse the damage caused by non-native invasive plants and help native ecosystems thrive once again. We believe environmental restoration is vital to reducing fire vulnerability, reversing biodiversity loss, and conserving water resources.
PRESERVE THE DREAM: Keep our fields naturally green.
Our community is rebuilding but one proposal would replace our living fields with plastic turf that threatens our soil, water, and health. Resilient Palisades is working with environmental and public health partners to keep our parks safe, natural, and sustainable.
IMPACT & STORYTELLING
Documenting our community’s history as it unfolds, preserving the stories of our struggles, recovery and successes so that what we experience and learn can be shared with future generations and other communities.
Current Initiatives & Programs
Our Guiding Principles for Rebuilding emphasize an integrative framework to mitigate future fire hazards and center resiliency so that our community will withstand and recover quickly from future risks, including fire, heat, drought, sea level rise, etc.
COMMIT TO COMPOST
Addressing food scrap waste by facilitating individual and community composting. Our Commit to Compost campaign is educating our community about home-based composting while exploring other community-wide strategies for increasing composting in the Palisades.
The Anti Litter League is bringing neighbors together to clean litter and debris from our streets, beaches, gutters and open spaces. We organize neighborhood cleanups, support cleanup events throughout the community and encourage residents of all ages to take an active role in caring for Pacific Palisades. A.L.L. means all of us working together to keep our community clean as we rebuild.
NATIVE PLANTS
Educating Palisadians on the importance of planting native plants and how to care for them year round. Palisadians now live in a more arid climate with less water available for our homes and gardens. But we can still live in beautiful surroundings.
CHOOSE TO REUSE
Our Zero Waste team provides free reusable bags at farmers markets and metal cups and cutlery for events. We are reducing single-use waste by promoting a Zero Waste mindset in the Palisades. Our Choose to Reuse campaign is focused on transitioning our throw-away culture to one of sharing and reuse.
Helping Palisades homeowners navigate solar and battery storage with vetted installers, competitive pricing, expert education and practical support throughout the rebuilding process.
Past & Legacy Work
Our Gas Free Gardens campaign transitioned yard care away from the use of polluting and toxic gas-powered gardening equipment and encouraged the use of electric equipment or, even better, manual tools like rakes. We provided free industrial grade electric leaf blowers to gardeners serving over 1,000 homes in the Palisades.
This initiative sought to dramatically increase local solar electricity generation in the Palisades, reduce emissions, save money, and increase energy resilience for our community. Our plan for achieving this was called the Pali Microgrid. A Pali Microgrid would reduce load on the grid and increase resilience by islanding in the event of brownouts and blackouts. Read more about this legacy project.