Greening Campuses and Cultivating Learners in Compton

TreePeople has long believed in greening educational spaces: access to green space gives students a place to play and develop creative problem solving skills. Plus, research has shown a strong correlation between access to nature and better cognitive function, self-discipline, and impulse control, and suggests that greener campuses may help improve student attention spans. And…

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UPDATE: Drought Response Forum

As we shared here last week, we recently hosted the forum “In Case of Emergency, Plant Trees: Reducing Mortality Risk in the Face of LA’s Hotter, Drier Future” at Los Angeles City Hall.   More than 100 Angelenos heard from speakers and engaged in conversations about how our city can learn from the lessons of Australia in…

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