SUPPORT ECOMALIBU
100% of your donation to EcoMalibu or purchase of EcoMalibu’s fine products from our store will support our projects and programs.
EcoMalibu is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) tax exempt public benefit corporation that promotes and educates the public about clean water, habitat protection, habitat restoration, and smart development in the Malibu Creek Watershed and southern California. EcoMalibu has four active programs:
Malibu Lagoon – 2016.
Student volunteers and interns planting native vegetation Malibu Lagoon – June, 2014.
Public Education: EM uses visual media (videos, photographs, and drawings) to present complicated scientific information in an understandable format to non-scientists. EM teaches the public about the importance of wetlands, given the role that they play in wildlife habitat, cleaning water, forming prime surf locations, and protecting our coast against issues associated with climate change. EM develops hands-on opportunities for students and community volunteers that provide them extraordinary environmental and educational experiences.
Advocacy: EcoMalibu promotes: preservation and conservation of undeveloped open space, restoration of wetlands, streams, and other habitats that result in clean water, improved wildlife habitat, and safer more livable communities. In the next 30 years climate change is expected to cause sea level rise and coastal flooding, prolonged draughts, more frequent floods, more severe and increased numbers of fires, and dramatic increases in the extinction of animal species.
EM advocates for Smart development and restoration actions that will make communities safer and less vulnerable to impacts associated with climate change. Working with nature, by placing new or relocating critical infrastructure away from areas vulnerable to climate impacts and preventing future losses by restoring coastal wetlands, sand dunes, and flood plains will enhance fish and wildlife, improve water quality, and make our communities safer from floods, fires, and draughts. Smart coastal resilient development costs less and improves the quality of life for members of those communities.
A park is better rather than commercial development. (tap on the image to see the video)
Front lawn replaced with rain garden which conserves and cleans water – 2016.
How-To: EcoMalibu produces educational, step-by-step, how-to videos to promote methods or technologies to protect the environment. The rain garden video teaches the viewer how to convert their landscape into an eco-friendly environment using native vegetation for the purpose of cleaning and conserving water. In action, rain gardens intercept polluted storm-water runoff from rooftops and driveways by diverting it into the landscape; this polluted runoff is cleaned and filtered as it passes through the soil, and pollutants are extracted by plant roots.
Rain gardens are built with native plants that use 93% less water than a typical lawn. Rain gardens and gray-water irrigation systems dramatically cuts water usage (and its inherent expense), and systematically reduce the pollutants that reach our rivers, streams, wetlands, and, ultimately, our life-giving ocean.
Your generous donations, and/or purchases of EcoMalibu merchandise, will be used to support our educational outreach, and advocacy efforts. Funds will be used to further promote the importance and need for wetland restoration, implementing EcoMalibu\’s student and volunteer programs, video production, and website development.
Please consider supporting our programs. EcoMalibu will treat your donations with the same respect that they would their own contributions. Of course, donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law. We invite you to please explore the EcoMalibu.org website, see the results of our work, learn more about our programs and organization.
Contact EcoMalibu via email at supportus@ecomalibu.org, or you can donate by clicking on the Paypal button on the right, or via mail: EcoMalibu, 5930 Reseda Blvd. #58, Tarzana, CA 91356
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