No 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…
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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 And while the government’s original “funding freeze” is no longer in effect, distributions from some public agencies remain paused, which has forced us to halt some of our crucial environmental…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…
Announcing John D. Bunzel as Board Chair of TreePeople
January 28, 2025Dear TreePeople Community, As I step into my new role as Board Chair at TreePeople, I am filled with gratitude and excitement for what lies ahead. I am honored to work alongside such an inspiring group of individuals, united by a shared mission: to create a greener, more sustainable future and nurture the connections that…
Help nature heal: avoid recent burn scars!
January 22, 2025The wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this month devastated so many of our local communities, as well as some of our region’s most beloved wilderness areas in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains. In the wake of this disaster, we’ve understandably received many questions about what restoration might look like in those ecosystems—and…
Here’s what it takes to plant an urban tree
December 17, 2024Life in the big city isn’t so easy for trees—and helping our urban canopy thrive and grow takes a lot more planning, care, and resources than you might expect. Here’s how TreePeople makes sure the trees we plant in our urban environment stay happy and healthy for years to come: 1. Trees need propagation In…
Five options for a more sustainable Christmas tree
December 17, 2024Christmas trees are a great way to infuse your home with cheer during the holiday season. But farming real trees just to cut them down isn’t ideal—and producing a bunch of brand new plastic trees is even worse. So how can you make sure you’re celebrating in the most sustainable way possible? Here are a…
BMO Donates $200,000 to Help Plant Trees in South and Southeast Los Angeles
November 27, 2024We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership between TreePeople and BMO, to address tree equity in South and Southeast Los Angeles County. This collaboration tackles environmental and climate challenges in communities that have historically faced significant environmental burdens, particularly due to decades of redlining and industrial zoning. In South and Southeast Los Angeles, we will…