The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Committee is continuing to focus on 1) reducing use for artificial turf and 2) restoring native plants and our urban forest. Join this call to learn about and help us with this work.

Meeting to be held via Zoom. Please click here to register.

The Water and Energy Committee meets on the third Friday of the month at 3:30pm.

Join us to learn about water conservation and the clean energy transition in Los Angeles and how you can help make these systems more sustainable and resilient.

Meeting via Zoom. No registration required - click here to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82390645850

Public Workshop for the Malibu Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project

 At our Chapter meeting in May, we has a discussion with RJ Van Sant of California State Parks to talk about the Malibu Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project and the Rindge Dam removal that is part of it. If you would like to learn more, this workshop is a great opportunity. (Note also that we are having a hike / tour of the project on November 14 as well).

California State Parks invites the public to a workshop on the Malibu Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project on Thursday, October 15, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Conference Room, 4232 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, CA 91302. Learn about the design and engineering updates related to the removal of Rindge Dam, project benefits that include restoring natural ecosystem functions, expanding critical habitat for endangered Southern California steelhead trout and other native species, and enhancing coastal resilience through beach nourishment. The public will have an opportunity to ask questions, share feedback, and engage directly with the project team. For more information about the project, visit www.restoremalibucreek.org or email restoremalibucreek@parks.ca.gov.   

Circular SoCal brings together leaders across design, manufacturing, development, government, utilities, industry, and community organizations to accelerate a more regenerative built environment in Southern California. Through expert conversations and collaboration, the event explores how circular economy principles can move from aspiration to action across materials, buildings, infrastructure, and policy. The program focuses on three interconnected scales: circular manufacturing and regional prosperity, strengthening local supply chains through deconstruction, workforce development, repair, remanufacturing, and reuse; and commercial-scale implementation, exploring the business case for circularity through real-world projects, financing, procurement, risk, and partnerships.

​The day concludes with policy as infrastructure, examining how ordinances, incentives, procurement, utilities, and infrastructure systems can create the conditions for circular systems to scale. Grounded in collaboration and action, Circular SoCal connects leaders across sectors to share lessons, build partnerships, and shape a more resilient, equitable, and regenerative future for Southern California.

To RSVP click here.

Building resilient food systems is essential to addressing the climate crisis. From urban farms and community gardens to sustainable agriculture and reduced food waste, we have the power to transform how we grow, distribute, and consume food in Los Angeles and beyond. By strengthening local food networks, we can reduce our carbon footprint, improve food security, and create healthier, more equitable communities. Our committee works to promote solutions that nourish both people and the planet.

Join this meeting to get involved!

Meeting Info

Climate Reality LA Resilient Food Systems Committee Mtg
Wednesday, Oct 14 · 7–8 PM
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/kuz-stye-ahf
Or dial: +1 484-681-2315 PIN: 402902798
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/kuz-stye-ahf?pin=4315658039228

Elizabeth Kolbert: Life on A Little Known Planet 

Tuesday, October 13th, 7:00pm Register here 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert joins San Fernando Climate Reality’s chapter call to discuss Life on a Little-Known Planet, a recent collection of her most influential and thought-provoking essays.

Kolbert has been a contributor to The New Yorker for many years and is the author of some of the most important and influential books on climate change and biodiversity.

Tuesday, October 13th, 7:00pm Register here 

The San Fernando Valley Climate Reality Project meets monthly via zoom on the Second Tuesday at 7pm. Click here to register for their meetings. And check out their YouTube channel for recordings of past meetings.

Come celebrate 50 years of coastal access in California!

More than half a century ago, California declared that its coast belongs to everyone! Please join a public celebration of the 50th anniversary of California's Coastal Act at 1 pm on October 10, 2026 at Junipero Beach.

Enjoy live DJs, music, food, and fun along with special guest speakers and people like you who have helped keep California's coast open, healthy, and accessible to all! Co-hosted by Surfrider and Azul.

To RSVP click here.

Compton Creek flows quietly through the heart of the city, and it’s one of the easiest cleanup sites to reach: just steps from the Metro A Line.

Along its banks, cattails and willows give shelter to birds and create space for nature to persist. Joining the cleanup here means giving new life to a place that blends accessibility, community, and ecology.

By pitching in at The Great LA River CleanUp, you’re helping to protect a pocket of habitat that sustains life well beyond its banks, keeping trash out of the River and making space for both people and wildlife to thrive.

To RSVP click here.

Join ActiveSGV at the SGV Clean Air and Water Fair at the Jeff Seymour Family Center!

The SGV Clean Air & Water Fair will bring together community members and local organizations for a day focused on clean air and water, climate resilience, and community action in the San Gabriel Valley. The fair will feature informational booths where local organizations will share resources focused on creating more sustainable communities, a Crop Swap, and family-friendly games and activities.

From 11-11:30am, listen in on an ActiveSGV staff panel where Jazmin, Diane, and Jenna will share about how electric bikes, green infrastructure, and food access can all support a more sustainable, equitable, and livable SGV.

To learn more and RSVP click here.

Join us at the Sepulveda Basin Sports Complex, where wide fields meet one of the most important natural stretches of the River. This soft-bottom reach is home to tall willows, herons, egrets, and countless smaller species that depend on the Basin’s wetlands. Working together, we’ll clear trash and protect this unique urban refuge, helping ensure that the River’s wildlife and the communities who come here to play, walk, and gather can share a cleaner, healthier space.

By pitching in at the Great LA River CleanUp, you’re helping to protect a pocket of habitat that sustains life well beyond its banks, keeping trash out of the River and making space for both people and wildlife to thrive.

To RSVP click here.

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Help us get the word out about the climate crisis and the great work the chapter is doing to address it.

The Marketing & Communications Committee manages the website, newsletter, and social media accounts for the chapter.

This will be a chance for you to meet the rest of the team, get updates, and work together to develop our marketing strategy.

We welcome new and returning volunteers to help generate ideas, increase our capacity, and share the workload. Experienced marketing and creatives folks are welcome, but no experience is necessary. If you want to help but can't make the meeting, please reach out to us via the contact form.

Click here to register for the Zoom meeting.

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LA Climate Reality's Green Buildings Committee meets on the first Monday of the month at 7pm.

The committee promotes building electrification through education and advocacy.

Meeting held via Zoom. Please click here to register.

Kuruvungna Springs, also known as the Gabrieleno Tongva Springs, is a sacred site that supported and continues to support the thriving Tongva people.

The site welcomes visitors and volunteers on the first Saturday of each month between 10am and 3pm to see and sustain this sacred space. Volunteers are generally asked to assist in gardening and landscaping initiatives, so bring your own gloves and gardening tools if you can.

Please join fellow members of LA Climate Reality in accepting this gracious invitation and actively engaging in the maintenance and upkeep of this beautiful indigenous space. LA Climate Reality co-chair Andy Hattala plans to be there between 10am and 12pm.

Click here to learn more about Kuruvungna Springs.

Willow Street Bridge is just a few miles from where the LA River meets the Pacific, creating an estuary -- a rare and fragile ecosystem that serves as a nursery for fish, a resting place for migratory birds, and a natural filter for water before it reaches the ocean. Because everything that washes downstream collects here, the site is both vital and vulnerable.

By pitching in at this cleanup, you’re helping to protect an ecosystem that supports life far beyond the River itself, keeping plastic out of the ocean and giving wildlife a healthier home.

To RSVP click here.

Steelhead Park sits along a soft-bottom stretch of the LA River, in the heart of the Elysian Valley. Here, cottonwoods and willows line the banks, offering shade and habitat for birds and other wildlife that make their home in the River's urban corridor. 

By pitching in at this cleanup, you’re helping to protect an ecosystem that supports life far beyond the River itself, keeping plastic out of the ocean and giving wildlife a healthier home.

To RSVP click here.

Due to unforeseen circumstances the September/end of session meeting started 15 minutes late and under a new Zoom. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you were unable to join, tried to join the original meeting and would like a synopsis of the legislative session and any updates, please reach out to the Vice Chair for updates. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and commitment to combating the climate crisis through environmental policy change.

Join the LA Legislative Committee meeting to recap the 2026 legislative session and look ahead to 2027.

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86018889684

More about the LA Climate Reality Legislative Committee: 

The mission of the Legislative Committee is to advance science-based climate policy at the local, state, and regional levels. We do this by educating our members, mobilizing climate leaders, building coalitions with partner organizations, and engaging directly with policymakers to support equitable, just, and effective climate solutions for California and beyond. Your participation helps turn climate urgency into real-world policy impact.

The LA Chapter Legislative & Policy Committee works with our partners at the San Fernando Valley Chapter, the Climate Reality California Coalition of Chapters, and Climate Action California.

Zoom Meeting link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86018889684

Your participation helps turn climate urgency into real policy impact; we look forward to building momentum together, both locally and nationally.

Dive into a world of knowledge and exploration as we celebrate our oceans and the creatures that call them home. In collaboration with The Open Book, The Persaud Foundation will be holding an Oceanic Literacy Day! We will be having an oceanic story time for children at 1:00 PM with the book "Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist", by Jess Keating. Afterward, we will have a Question & Answer Session about Marine Biology & Science Communication, in which children can discuss any questions that they may have about marine life, & any questions that they may have about entering the field. We shall also be reviewing our shark education fact cards, each of which features a new & interesting shark fact on it!

To learn more and register click here.

South Bay Parkland Conservancy is teaming up with US Fish and Wildlife Services, LA County Department of Beaches and Harbor, LA Conservation Corps and the City of Redondo Beach to restore habitat for the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly and other native wildlife along the bluffs of Redondo Beach.

This project will maintain existing habitat restoration on the bluffs between Miramar Park and Avenue C and conduct new restoration between Avenue I and Avenue C. Volunteers will be asked to assist with:

• Weeding out invasive plants

• Installing new native plants (during the rainy season)

• Providing supplemental water to newly installed plants, as needed

To RSVP click here.

What happens when communities aren’t prepared for the next major air disaster? The recent Lineage Logistics warehouse fire and the evacuation of 50,000 people from the GKN facility in Garden Grove highlight just how quickly an industrial incident can become an air quality emergency and the urgent need for better preparedness, response, and community protection.

Join the Coalition for Clean Air and local air quality leaders for a conversation about the history of air quality disasters in California, the gaps in emergency response and preparedness, and what community members are doing to protect themselves.

We’ll look at the threat of air pollution disasters in San Pedro, Wilmington, Torrance, and at the Jones Chemicals facility in Harbor Gateway, and hear from local leaders working to prevent the next air disaster before it happens.

To RSVP for this webinar click here.

On September 21, 2026, join the 19th Annual global observance of Zero Emissions Day by committing to go net zero for one day.

The challenge is simple: leave the gas-powered car at home and choose a cleaner way to get where you need to go. Take public transit, walk, bike, carpool, or combine trips to reduce emissions and give our planet the break it deserves. Small choices, made together, can help build healthier communities and a more sustainable future.

Make your one-day commitment today because every mile not driven is a step toward cleaner air and a healthier Earth.

See here and here.

Please join us for our LA Climate Reality monthly chapter call, featuring a conversation with Rika Gopinath of Beyond Pesticides. Click here to register.

Rika Gopinath leads the Parks for a Sustainable Future initiative to help cities and schools eliminate synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and adopt organic land care. She has served on the Marin County Parks IPM Commission since 2013, including chairing the commission during 2016 when County Supervisors directed Parks staff to eliminate glyphosate and other synthetic pesticides. Rika co-founded YardSmart Marin, now a Non Toxic Communities project, advocating for policy change and organic land care across the Bay Area and nationwide.

Through Beyond Pesticides' Parks for a Sustainable Future two-year pilot program, Rika helps cities from coast to coast transition public parks to fully organic management. Beyond Pesticides connects this work to climate impact directly: eliminating fossil-fuel-intensive synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which not only protects public health and the environment, but allows organically managed soils in parks and athletic fields to function as net carbon sinks.

Rika joins LA Climate Reality to show that decarbonizing our landscapes starts with the soil beneath our parks and fields.

Click here to register.

The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Committee is continuing to focus on 1) reducing use for artificial turf and 2) restoring native plants and our urban forest. Join this call to learn about and help us with this work.

Meeting to be held via Zoom. Please click here to register.

Join the next protest to get the Dodgers to quit advertising for Big Oil is Sept. 20. Why does it matter? Because making fans feel warm and fuzzy about fossil fuels, by associating 76 gas with superstars like Shohei, makes it easier for crimes like the Murphy Drill site--an active oil drilling operation linked to endless asthma, cancer and other illnesses in South LA--to continue.

Please come out for an hour of protest with us. If you read about Murphy, you'll read about classrooms full of kids with inhalers, dads, uncles, even dogs with cancer, and multiple miscarriages. Let's help our community, please. Proud to be sponsored by Sierra Club Angeles Chapter and Third Act SoCal.

Click here for more information.

Join us for the 42nd annual California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 19th from 9 AM to noon!

Coastal Cleanup Day is California's largest annual volunteer event. Join your friends and neighbors to help remove trash from beaches and inland waterways across the entire state. Help protect wildlife and our own health by eliminating plastic pollution before it can cause any more harm.

To find a cleanup near you click here.

The Water and Energy Committee meets on the third Friday of the month at 3:30pm.

Join us to learn about water conservation and the clean energy transition in Los Angeles and how you can help make these systems more sustainable and resilient.

Meeting via Zoom. No registration required - click here to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82390645850

Join USGBC California in Los Angeles for Carbon Forward Summit 2026, California's premier event for embodied carbon, materials & sustainable construction.

California is entering one of the most significant periods of building and infrastructure investment in its history. As communities work to meet ambitious climate goals while delivering the housing, schools, transportation, data centers, and public infrastructure the state needs, reducing embodied carbon has become one of the built environment's greatest opportunities and greatest challenges.

Expect sessions on lower-carbon concrete, steel, mass timber, and other materials, procurement strategies, circular construction, and policy developments, alongside real-world case studies. This event will also mark the release of a first-of-its-kind regional assessment of lower-carbon concrete suppliers and technologies.

If you design, build, manufacture, regulate, or invest in California's built environment, this is where the industry is heading and where you'll want to be.

To learn more and register click here.

The Resilient Food Systems Committee is back from hiatus with a new Committee Chair, Stephanie Gomez. The committee will next meet on Wednesday, September 16 at 7pm via Google Meet.

Google Meet video call link: https://meet.google.com/qav-ruid-wnp

Stephanie Gomez is a native Angeleno, nonprofit leader, urban farmer, and community organizer based in the San Fernando Valley. As the cofounder of Shift Our Ways Collective, she has spent the past six and a half years supporting community-centered efforts to build more equitable food systems. With 10 years of experience in the nonprofit sector,  Stephanie brings a background in program development, community engagement, partnerships, policy and digital storytelling to her role as Chair of Climate Reality Los Angeles’ Resilient Food Systems Committee.

The focus of the committee: Building resilient food systems is essential to addressing the climate crisis. From urban farms and community gardens to sustainable agriculture and reduced food waste, we have the power to transform how we grow, distribute, and consume food in Los Angeles and beyond. By strengthening local food networks, we can reduce our carbon footprint, improve food security, and create healthier, more equitable communities. Our committee works to promote solutions that nourish both people and the planet.

Meeting Info

Climate Reality LA Resilient Food Systems Committee Mtg
Wednesday, Sep 16 · 7–8 PM
Google Meet video call link: https://meet.google.com/qav-ruid-wnp
Or dial: +1 413-308-2253 PIN: 132304144
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/qav-ruid-wnp?pin=5426105022589

LA Climate Reality's Green Buildings Committee usually meets on the first Monday of the month at 7pm, this month we will meet on the second Monday, September 14.

The committee promotes building electrification through education and advocacy.

Meeting held via Zoom. Please click here to register.

Meet vetted solar installers, explore solar and battery options, ask questions, and get personal help with your Power Up Palisades intake.

Thinking about solar and battery storage for your rebuild or home? Join Resilient Palisades for the Power Up Palisades Fair, a free community event designed to make solar and battery decisions easier to understand.

Meet the solar installers vetted by Resilient Palisades, ask questions about equipment and pricing, learn how the Power Up Palisades program works, and get personal help completing your homeowner intake form. You can also learn how to compare quotes, explore available incentives and financing options when you electrify your rebuild, and connect with neighbors making similar decisions.

To learn more and register click here.