Media Center
TreePeople’s marketing and communications team is committed to sharing our stories, research, and solutions to the world in order to inspire others to take responsibility for the environment around them.
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Press Releases
2022
- Susan Drake, business leader and philanthropist, awarded with TreePeople’s highest honor
- As Extended Extreme Heat Scorches Schools, Governor Newsom’s Administration and State Legislators to Highlight Historic $150 Million Investment to Help Green California Schools
- California Legislature approves historic investment in school greening
- TreePeople Applauds Governor Newsom’s Climate-Focused Proposed Budget
2021
- TreePeople, Fernandeño Tataviam Tribe, Theodore Payne Foundation, San Fernando community come together to restore historic Rudy Ortega, Sr. Park
- TreePeople to plant 30,000 trees and plants in Mountains throughout Los Angeles County
- TreePeople to partner with Councilmember Blumenfield and MTO Shahmaghsoudi® to distribute free fruit trees and plants to West Valley
- Soil Connects Us All
- Introducing T.R.E.E. Talks, a Public Lecture Series Hosted by TreePeople to Teach, Root, Engage, and Entertain on the Environment
2019
- TreePeople accepts leadership over Mountains Restoration Trust
- Once Upon a Canyon Night, Your Favorite Summer Entertainment Series in the Woods and Under the Stars Returns for the 17th Season #CanyonNights
- How Police Radar Technology is Used to Map Tree Canopy
- So It Rained in L.A. Now What?!
- How to Rebuild Fire-Resilient Smart Homes!
- TreePeople and Bio-K+ - Good for the Environment Inside and Out!
- How Google Earth Technology is Creating a Greener Street!
- TreePeople Responds to Climate Change Threats by Launching Transformative San Fernando Calles Verdes-Green Streets Project!
2018
- Los Angeles Business Journal - Style Andy Lipkis
- TreePeople Opposes New Commercial Zoning in Benedict Canyon
- Forest Aid: TreePeople and Boeing Launch A New Campaign for Healthy Forests, Fire Resilience
- Telenovelas in the Park
- Volunteers to Plant 600 Native Plants at Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet
- Watts Rising: $35 Million Awarded For Community Projects
- 300 Free Fruit Trees to Be Distributed at the Pacoima Wash Natural Park in San Fernando
2017
- TreePeople Kicks Off 1,400 Tree Planting Campaign
- TreePeople Star-Studded Gala Raises $705,000 for Climate Action
- 25 Volunteers Plant Trees at Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park for Nationwide Celebration of National Public Lands Day
- National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council Awards Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative $320,000 for Critical Research
- San Fernando Elementary School Tree Planting
- “Once Upon a Canyon Night” Returns for the 15th Season!
- TreePeople Awarded 1.2 Million to Retrofit Homes to Capture and Infiltrate Rain
- LAStormCatcher Scaling Analysis
2016
- NRDC and TreePeople Stormwater Issues Brief
- Three Decades and Running: Boeing Employees Pitch In to Care for Trees
- “Once Upon a Canyon Night” Returns for the 14th Season!
- TreePeople Becomes AngelFest 2017 Festival Partner
- New Research Transfers Drought Solutions from Australia to LA
- TreePeople Names New CEO: Former California State Assembly Member Cindy Montañez
- L.A. County, L.A. Cities and Environmental Groups Announce New Roadmap for Historic Scaling Up of Decentralized, Alternate Water Supplies
2015
- As El Niño Winter Nears, City-County Partnership Combines High- and Low-Tech Solutions to Fight Drought by Catching Stormwater
- Statewide Campaign Launched to “Save Our Water and Our Trees” in Drought!
- “Once Upon a Canyon Night” Returns
- Statement Regarding Mayor Garcetti's Sustainability Plan
- Los Angeles trees under attack - Anti-tree group out to “Save Our Concrete”
- TreePeople and 20th Street Elementary School Team Up to Green South LA Campus
2013
- TreePeople Receives $100,000 Commitment from RBC Blue Water Project
- TreePeople Gives Away 1,100 Fruit Trees in Northeast San Fernando Valley
- 10 Schools Win Trip to Help Restore Station Fire Burn Areas: TreePeople-Edison International TreeByTree Social Media Campaign Sends Students to Mountains
- Social Media Campaign Launches to Restore Angeles National Forest: Los Angeles Area Students Seek to Win Trip to Plant Trees
2012
- Native Oak Trees Transform Blacktop School Yard
- South L.A. School To Celebrate Schoolyard Transformation
- TreePeople Selected to Receive Starbucks™ Youth Action Grant
- TreePeople Offers Tree ID Walk in Griffith Park
- Fire Prevention Action: Santa Monica Mountains
- Volunteer Tree Planting in Station Fire-Burned Area
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2021: A Year in Review
2021 was a banner year for TreePeople. What began as a time of uncertainty, with the pandemic moving into its second year, blossomed into a year of hope and renewal as TreePeople expanded its work into new communities and in new directions. 2021 also saw the return of the in-person volunteer events that have been…

Let’s Green Riverside – TreePeople Returns to the Inland Empire
In the summer of 1973, the first stirrings of what would become TreePeople began in the mountains above Riverside, California. Those early efforts by teenagers to help protect and restore the San Bernardino National Forest soon blossomed into Southern California’s largest environmental movement—mobilizing 3 million volunteers to plant 3 million trees. Earlier this month, TreePeople…
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Events and Community Partnerships Manager

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Jr Graphic Designer

Miguel Vargas
Social Media and Marketing Coordinator
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