Green Tip: The Palisades Celebrates Earth Day

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 Ryan Craig.

In the late 1960s, as Americans drove gas-guzzling cars and factories pumped out population at unprecedented levels, the environmental movement was born. One of the first concrete manifestations of that movement was campus teach-ins. Teach-ins were coordinated to occur between spring break and final exams—April 22 to be exact. And that’s how Earth Day was born.

Earth Day may be the largest secular observance in the world, marked by over one billion people as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes.

Central to Earth Day is the fight against climate change. If we don’t tackle climate change, we will continue to experience more extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms.

Global temperatures will continue to rise, which will lead to melting glaciers and rising sea levels. This, in turn, will cause coastal flooding and erosion, loss of habitat for plant and animal species, and displacement of people from their homes.

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters will increase, resulting in more deaths, injuries and economic losses. Additionally, climate change will exacerbate social and economic inequalities, as vulnerable communities will be hit the hardest. Finally, the impact of climate change will be irreversible.

In our community, Resilient Palisades will mark Earth Day by gathering on the Village Green on Sunday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be a morning of fun, education and all things eco-friendly. Let’s show Mother Nature some love.

All seven Resilient Palisades community teams will be represented—Clean Air and Water, Vegan Solutions, Clean Energy, Zero Waste, Green Banking, Biking, and Water Sages—along with representatives from the Village Green itself.

Come join us for:

• Vegan foods

• Free reusable produce bags

• Information on a new program to retire leaf blowers

• Free native plants

• Information on the Pali Microgrid group purchasing program

• Free kitchen pails from LA Sanitation to collect food scraps for composting in the green bin

• Resources on native fire wise landscapes

• Vegan giveaways

• Interactive native seed bubble making

• Learn more about Ridwell, a new service that allows Palisadians to recycle hard-to-recycle items

• Live worms and microorganisms living in compost

• Free packets of native seeds

  
  

We hope to see you on the Village Green on Sunday, April 23. By working together as a community, we can make the necessary changes to protect our planet for future generations.