👋 Welcome! If you're new here, here’s a brief look at how our community effort came together and the positive future we're working toward.
It Started with a Conversation
This entire movement sparked from a simple, fundamental question: What is best for our kids and our environment?
In the spring of 2025, a proposal to install a plastic turf field at a local school initiated a city-wide conversation. Parents, neighbors, and residents began to take a closer look at the long-term health, environmental, and financial impacts of these materials.
We quickly realized this was a perfect opportunity to champion a positive, sustainable vision for all of Santa Monica's public spaces.
A Positive, Proactive Vision
From that conversation, a proactive, solutions-oriented campaign was born. We are focused on positive advocacy, partnering with city leaders and the school district to champion the new standard in public spaces: modern, organically-managed natural grass.
Our goal is to ensure Santa Monica can be a leader in sustainable, healthy, and cost-effective solutions that are safer for kids and better for our planet. We believe this aligns perfectly with our city's own "City as a Habitat" Vision Plan.
Building Consensus
This constructive, data-driven approach is working. By bringing science and community voices to the table, we've helped build an undeniable consensus. As you'll see in our other posts, advisory body after advisory body—from sports committees to environmental experts—has formally recommended that the city prioritize natural, living solutions over plastic turf.
Our Path Forward
What started as a neighborhood question has grown into a powerful, city-wide movement for a healthier, more resilient Santa Monica. This is about moving forward, together.
Explore our site to learn more, see the data for yourself, and join us in this important work. 💚
Join Our Community Effort
This is a community-powered movement, and your voice is critical. Here are two simple ways you can get involved right now:
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2. Share Your Voice: Take our 3-minute community survey. We need to hear your experiences with our local parks and fields. Your input gives us the data we need to show our leaders what the community really wants