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TreePeople Presents: “Smoke on the Water” – A New Solo Exhibition by Merissa Mann
June 2, 2025TreePeople is proud to present Smoke on the Water, a new exhibition of gouache paintings by artist Merissa Mann, on view June 18–21 and June 25–28 at TreePeople’s Schuman Family Foundation Conference Center. What’s the show about?Drawing inspiration from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, Mann’s atmospheric and richly layered work explores the delicate boundary between…
Ten invasive plants to watch out for in Southern California
May 21, 2025Here at TreePeople, we work to transform degraded wilderness areas into healthy, sustainable, biodiverse ecosystems that provide countless benefits to our communities. When we take on these large-scale restoration projects, a big part of the work involves managing invasive species—aka weeding out harmful, non-native plants that damage the ecosystem by crowding out native species. In…
School Greening Spring Update
May 13, 2025Sparks Middle School Greening is Complete! On Saturday, February 22nd, students, parents, community members, longtime volunteers, and school administrators gathered at Sparks Middle School to plant the remaining 23 trees from TreePeople’s 55-tree plan. Joined by the San Gabriel Valley team, members of the education department, and the Green Infrastructure team, this group put the…
How to Start a School Greening Project
May 6, 2025No student wants to play on asphalt, but unfortunately, many are forced to learn and play at concrete-covered schools with a severe lack of green space. Here at TreePeople, our School Greening team wants to see that change—we are currently greening more than two dozen school campuses to create healthier learning environments that will keep…
Embracing Roots: TreePeople at The Broad’s Social Forest Celebration 🌳
March 18, 2025Recently, TreePeople participated in The Broad Museum’s “Never Stop Planting – Social Forest Community Celebration” at Elysian Park. This vibrant event marked the commencement of the museum’s reforestation initiative, Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar, aiming to rejuvenate Los Angeles’ natural landscape while honoring Indigenous traditions. Introducing TreePeople’s Native Plants & Language Project At our booth,…
4th Annual Urban Soil Symposium Digs Into Climate Gardening
March 17, 2025How can communities manage their landscapes to make them more resilient to climate change? Can native plants and fungi remediate contaminated soil? And how can we better understand soil health in the aftermath of the LA fires? These are just a few of the big questions researchers tackled at TreePeople’s 4th Los Angeles Urban Soil…
Has climate change impacted your life? Send us your stories!
March 4, 2025How has climate change impacted your life in Southern California? Have you experienced severe weather events like fire, extreme heat, or flooding? Altered your day-to-day routine because of the changing climate? Or noticed climate-related changes in your community or neighborhood? TreePeople wants to hear YOUR stories for a new research project! We’re looking for submissions…
School Greening Winter 2024-25 Update
February 24, 2025TreePeople is extremely proud of all the work we are currently doing at schools around Southern California. For more information about all of our School Greening projects, click here. Curriculum update Last quarter, we shared a brief preview of the curriculum that TreePeople is bringing to the schools in our implementation grants. For the past…
How the Federal Funding Freeze is Impacting TreePeople’s Work
February 24, 2025Recent shifts in federal funding policy have caused widespread confusion and disruption for many nonprofits, including TreePeople. Our projects rely in part on federal grants. And while the government’s original “funding freeze” is no longer in effect, distributions from some public agencies remain paused, which has forced us to halt some of our crucial environmental…
Growing a Greener Future: Sparks Middle School Tree Planting 🌳🌱
February 21, 2025On February 1st, we kicked off our first tree planting event under the CAL FIRE implementation grant, and what a day it was! Hosted at Sparks Middle School in the Hacienda La Puente School District, the event was a huge success, bringing together 29 volunteers from the local community to help make the campus a…
Sprouting from the ashes: SoCal’s native fire followers
January 31, 2025The recent wildfires took a devastating toll on Southern California, impacting both our urban communities and the wilderness areas surrounding them. For nature lovers, it can be heartbreaking to see once-lush ecosystems in areas like Eaton Canyon and the Pacific Palisades reduced to ash. But while recovery will likely be a long road, it’s comforting…