TreePeople explained

TreePeople
Nickname:TP
Founded Date:1973
Location:Los Angeles, California, United States
Area Served:Los Angeles
Founder:Andy Lipkis
Focus:Conservation service, environmental education

TreePeople is an educational and training environmental advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, California.[1] The TreePeople organization advocates and works to support sustainable urban ecosystems in the Greater Los Angeles area through education, volunteer community-based action, and advocacy.[2]

Organization history

TreePeople was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by an 18-year-old activist Andy Lipkis. Lipkis and a group of other teenagers began planting trees three years prior at summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. Lipkis heard that smog from Los Angeles was drifting up to the mountains and killing the forest. He rallied his fellow campers, tore up a parking lot, and planted smog-tolerant trees.

Lipkis served as president of TreePeople for many years and still serves as a Board Member. Cindy Montañez became the Chief Executive Officer in 2016. The organization works with thousands of members and volunteers and more than 50 staff members, operating out of the Center for Community Forestry located with-in 45-acre Coldwater Canyon Park.[3]

The TreePeople organization focuses on increasing Greater Los Angeles' urban forest by supporting people in planting and caring for trees at homes, on school yards, and in neighborhoods. It also supports volunteers in restoring damaged local forest ecosystems in the Santa Monica Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains.[4]

Beyond planting and caring for trees, TreePeople works to promote urban watershed management, using green infrastructure to address critical urban water issues. It educates and advocates for water conservation and stormwater capture in the urban landscape for Los Angeles' long-term sustainability.

Since its founding, the TreePeople staff have gone on to plant more than two million trees in the Los Angeles area and have developed one of the nation's largest environmental education programs. A recent program is T.R.E.E.S. – Transagency Resources for Environmental and Economic Sustainability – demonstrating the feasibility and facilitates the implementation of integrated urban ecosystem management to increase the health and sustainability of our cities.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: CORWIN . MILES . TreePeople--an Idea That Keeps on Growing . Los Angeles Times . 25 December 1991.
  2. News: Williams. Lena. 1995-03-16. In Los Angeles, A Time for Planting. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-10. 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: KOENENN. CONNIE. 20 July 1999. The Green Team. Los Angeles Times.
  4. Web site: MOFFET. PENELOPE. 17 December 1988. The Green Keepers : In Their 'Magic Forest,' a Group of Idealists Nurture and Teach. Los Angeles Times.