May 08, 2008
TreePeople is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the Los Angeles area for over three decades. Their work is about helping nature heal our cities, offering sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems. Founder Andy Lipkis began planting trees to rehabilitate smog and fire damaged areas when he was 15 years old. He founded TreePeople in 1973 at age 18 and continues to serve as its president. Now one of California’s largest independent environmental organizations, TreePeople is dedicated to helping nature heal our cities. Among Andy’s accomplishments are inspiring the planting of one million trees in Los Angeles before the 1984 Summer Olympics, and with his wife Kate, writing The Simple Act of Planting a Tree, which has become a touchstone for the international Citizen Forestry movement, a term he coined.
Link: Tree People
Tags: eco, green, sustainable, urban renewal
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