Honor Earth Mamas and Mother Earth with Tree Dedications
One of our favorite holidays, Earth Day, is on April 22. Close on its heels is Mother’s Day. What better way to celebrate both occasions than by helping to reforest our parks and woodlands? It’s way...
View ArticleApril Is TreePeople’s Busiest Month
It was at the very first Earth Day in April of 1970 that our founder and president, Andy Lipkis, gained inspiration to do his first tree planting project. More than 40 years later, April is also a time...
View ArticleDiscover the North Valleyheart Riverwalk, April 21
In April we branch out on our next community tree walk with partners at the Village Gardeners, who will show us their beautification and restoration efforts along the Los Angeles River in Studio City....
View ArticleDown from the Mountain as Another Season Closes
Ah, the sun has set on another seedling planting season in the Angeles National Forest. This year, Forest Aid: Angeles volunteers planted nearly 10,000 Jeffrey and Counter pines, thanks to the...
View ArticleTake an Earth Day Walk in the Park
At TreePeople we like to think of every day as Earth Day. But that doesn’t mean we don’t love to celebrate April 22 as a great time to do something wonderful for the earth. Still, maybe planting 100...
View ArticleNamaste, Girl-Karma!
If what goes around comes around, then the group Girl-Karma can expect major Earth Day kudos for its members’ commitment to improving environmental health. Our wonderful volunteer Michelle Moy talked...
View ArticleTreePeople Turns 40: Thank You, Los Angeles!
Today marks 40 years since the Los Angeles Times shared a kid’s dream of saving our city and our forests. “Andy vs. the Bureaucratic Deadwood,” by Michael Seiler, touched many thousands of...
View ArticleCitizen Forestry: Why Trees Don’t Make Sustainable Communities, People Do
On April 27, several bleak and over-paved blocks of downtown L.A.’s Arts District will be transformed by a community planting of 27 trees. Birds will sing, leaves will flutter, and hearts will lift:...
View ArticleCelebrate Urban Trees as Superheroes on National Arbor Day, April 26
U.S. Forest Service researchers have published compelling evidence* of urban trees’ immense carbon storage capacity. Along with the other many things they do to improve the environment, trees absorb...
View ArticleBecome a Citizen Arborist and Lead Your Community to Action
TreePeople’s Citizen Arborist program is designed to train and produce a trusted network of community members who help keep our trees healthy and thriving. Certified Citizen Arborists are expert...
View ArticleFree Workshops on Landscape Transformation, this Saturday, May 4
Got plans for Saturday morning? If not, then come up to TreePeople and attend one of our free quarterly workshops on how to transform your home and neighborhood landscapes. You’ll learn everything you...
View ArticleDowntown L.A. Goes from Gray to Green
What’s better than a tree planting to beautify downtown L.A.? Many tree plantings to beautify downtown L.A.! TreePeople Citizen Forester Gabrielle Newmark rallied her downtown Los Angeles Arts District...
View ArticleParking Lot Cool
In these recent unseasonably hot days, have you noticed the heat radiating off blacktop? Black asphalt traps heat and releases it back into our cities. “But who said streets had to be black?” asked Ben...
View ArticleFruit Trees Go Public
You’ll have read about and possibly visited the public park orchard planted at Del Aire Park that opened last fall. It’s a Los Angeles County Arts Commission-sponsored project of the artist group...
View ArticleGreening Asphalt-Covered Schools: It Never Gets Old
When I walked into the school office, armed with my spray paint and tape measure, I was greeted by Jorge Alvarez, one of the Victoria Avenue Elementary School Green Team members. “Are we marking the...
View ArticleKeeping Memories of Trees Alive and Growing in L.A.
Did you grow up in Los Angeles? Can you remember what the streets and parks looked like when you were a small child? Is it hard to imagine what used to stand where a new mall or office building now...
View ArticleTreePeople’s Ecological Restoration Team to the Rescue
Forty-five-acre Coldwater Canyon Park is home to TreePeople’s hilltop headquarters and the state-of-the-art Center for Community Forestry. Known to locals as a great hiking and dog-walking area, it’s...
View ArticleLet It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
After the President’s speech on climate change this morning, and looking ahead to a hot weekend, we find our thoughts turning to snow. Specifically, Los Angeles’s precious local mountain snowpack....
View Article“I’ve learned some very good leadership skills,” Xavier Cervantes, TreePeople...
In many ways, Xavier Cervantes is your typical 14-year-old. He’s a freshman in high school, he loves to go camping, and if he could spend a day in the life of any famous person, it would be funny-man...
View Article“I don’t get anything out of it except saving the world,” Mary Miasnik,...
As a lifelong Angeleno, Mary remembers a time when she could ride her bike anywhere she wanted and nobody had to worry about where their children were. A time when nothing interesting happened except...
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