I am excited to announce that today’s edition of the Los Angeles Times carries a timely Op-Ed that I wrote titled, “Not enough water, L.A.? Look up.” Did Mulholland Get it Wrong? Nearly one hundred years ago today, William Mulholland stood before a crowd of 40,000 near San Fernando and unfurled an American flag, signaling…
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Attention Pet Owners—An Opportunity for your “Pawlanthropy” to Benefit TreePeople
November 1, 2013Dogs love trees, and if you love dogs, you’ll love this news! Beginning today, November 1, 2013, every time you purchase a ten-pound box of The Honest Kitchen’s dog food at Healthy Spot locations in the greater Los Angeles area, you will directly support TreePeople’s work in greening our city. We are excited to announce…
Learning from Australia’s Drought: TreePeople Draws Lessons From Down Under
October 29, 2013In 2012, TreePeople began an exchange between government, research and community organizations in Australia and Southern California. The aim of the program: to share innovations, best practices and experience in urban rainwater capture, water conservation practices and drought response—topics that are increasingly relevant as the climate of the American Southwest (and beyond) changes for the…
Giving Back to the Universe
October 22, 2013When Dolores Reece decided to head an effort to revitalize the greenery in her Los Angeles neighborhood just north of the 10 Freeway, she felt as if it was something she was meant to be doing. A California native, Dolores grew up with a profound appreciation for the beauty of the natural world and our…
TreePeople Turns 40!
October 17, 2013In 1973, TreePeople was born from a teenager’s dream. From the beginning, Andy Lipkis’ vision was to connect the power of trees with the power of people to heal Los Angeles’ damaged ecosystem. From successfully inspiring the planting of a million trees in Los Angeles in time for the 1984 summer Olympics, to planting seven…
Meet Nicole Liner-Jigamian—TreePeople’s New Volunteer Manager
October 15, 2013By now I have met many of TreePeople’s wonderful supporters over e-mail or in-person. But in case I haven’t met you yet, I will take this opportunity to introduce myself. Before beginning this position I was eager to see what this organization and its 10,000 annual volunteers had in store for me. After a very…
Forbes Features TreePeople’s Water Work
October 10, 2013Our “sound bite” name of TreePeople is misleading. What we do goes way beyond trees. A recent article in Forbes describes the deeper side of our work, which is about building Los Angeles’ next water supply. Trees are inextricably linked to water—capturing, cleansing and storing rainwater and protecting us from drought and floods. As such, they…
Plug-In to the Los Angeles Business Council Summit
October 2, 2013With TreePeople’s mission to inspire and engage people in making Los Angeles sustainable and healthy, we can’t ignore the role that our transportation system plays with its massive consumption of energy, and generation of CO2 and air pollution. Our streets, roads and highways are the primary mechanism whereby we pollute and throw away over $400…
Show Your Pride and Come Out for National Public Lands Day
September 26, 2013“It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.” -Teddy Roosevelt This Saturday is the 20th Anniversary of National Public Lands Day! This is the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands. So what are your Saturday plans? How about saving…
Get Ready to Collect Some Rain (And Some Money!)
September 19, 2013Whatever you’re doing on Saturday, October 5, cancel it, call-in sick, quickly clone yourself, something. Just do whatever you need to do to get to TreePeople’s FREE Community Sustainability Workshop. Why the rush? Well, believe it or not, soon it will rain in Los Angeles, and now is the time to get ready. Native plant…
The Tree-Water Connection at One Water Leadership Summit, September 23 – 26
September 13, 2013Even though our name is TreePeople, our organization is as focused on the city’s watershed as we are on its individual trees. After all, the forest has always been nature’s water supply and pollution clean-up system. I’ll be shedding light on how that works in Los Angeles—and the many benefits to our environment, community and…
A Field Trip That Can Set Values For A Lifetime
September 11, 2013Here at TreePeople, back-to-school has us celebrating the start of our favorite season—Eco-tour season! For over thirty years, thousands of Los Angeles area children have experienced a TreePeople Eco-tour as a high point of their school year. For some inner city students, their field trip to TreePeople’s 45-acre natural park and learning campus in the…