TreePeople’s Generation Earth program challenges students to show LA County how we can alleviate the effects of stormwater pollution in our community! Students must invent or discover a stormwater pollution prevention hack (an easily accessible and affordable solution) to keep clean, help conserve, or recycle water, and then share the hack with their school. …
Nicole Kelly
Mayor Eric Garcetti Unveils Comprehensive Sustainability pLAn for City of LA
April 8, 2015This month, Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a comprehensive, multifaceted sustainability plan for the City of Los Angeles. The plan (pLAn) includes a wide span of measurable actions the City hopes to reach by 2035 with a special focus on the environment with an emphasis on water, solar energy, carbon and climate change leadership and waste;…
Save Our Concrete: A Gag For A Good Cause by Director David Zucker
April 6, 2015Released on April 1st as both an April Fool’s Day joke and as a kickoff to Earth Month, TreePeople’s new video campaign, Save Our Concrete, is full of gags (like a nod to the Tiananmen Square tank man), and features TreePeople volunteers as faux protestors. “Sometimes a large corporation must plant a tree,” says the…
Trees In the City Make Us Safer, Happier, and Healthier
March 27, 2015Trees are often touted for providing shade, cleaning our air and capturing the rain, but did you know trees also are living anti-depressants? Recent studies show that trees make city-dwellers happier, healthier and more connected to their communities. Just a few of the reasons you should hug a tree today. The Mind-Body-Tree Connection Now that more than…
Skip the Artificial Turf: The Value of Native Plants and the Truth About Fake Grass
March 25, 2015For decades Angelenos have maintained an image of the perfect suburban yard. We imagine homes with neatly trimmed hedges, colorful flower beds beneath the windows and a lush, green, well-manicured lawn rolling right up to the front door. The perpetuation of this image has skewed our sense of natural beauty. Not only is that ideal simply not sustainable in…
Cómo Colocar la Pedacería Orgánica (Mulch)
March 20, 2015La gente necesita árboles y los árboles necesitan la gente. Una vez que el árbol esta sembrado, todavía necesita su ayuda para crecer fuerte y sano. Cubriendo el área alrededor del árbol con un grueso manto de abono (rallado o corturas de madera) ayuda crear un ambiente saludable en la tierra, que es vital para…
School and Community Rally to Replace Playground Asphalt with 30 New Shade Trees
March 20, 2015On Saturday, March 14, 20th Street Elementary School’s campus, located just south of downtown Los Angeles’ Fashion District, was transformed. Over 100 volunteers, TreePeople staff and partners came together and planted 30 Raywood Ash, Australian Willow and Crape Myrtle trees on a formerly bleak asphalt schoolyard. Despite the heat, the day was electric with excitement for the…
7 Reasons to Volunteer In the Angeles National Forest
March 13, 2015Only a massive effort by TreePeople volunteers makes it possible to replant and restore the fire-damaged areas of the Angeles National Forest. 1. You’ll help restore the forest’s pristine beauty. In 2009, 161,000 acres (approximately 25%) of the Angeles National Forest was destroyed by fire stripping the forests of Manzanita, sumac, sycamore and pine trees. 11,000 of…
I Am TreePeople: Tim Douglass
March 12, 2015TreePeople has a legacy of inspiring activism, but it’s the stories of our volunteers that inspire us to keep coming together to build a sustainable future. Meet Tim Douglass, a TreePeople volunteer and Mountain Forestry Supervisor. “We only have one environment and we have a responsibility to take care of it.” Tim got involved with TreePeople…
TreePeople’s Fruit Tree Distributions Bring Food & Shade to LA Communities
March 6, 2015More than 250 volunteers joined TreePeople to distribute nearly 2,000 trees to Angelenos from Inglewood, Huntington Park, Pacoima, and Watts during this year’s Fruit Tree Distribution Festivals. The events attracted a variety of volunteers, from local community members to groups, businesses and government representatives. This year the Laker Girls were on hand to help sort…