Posts tagged TreePeople
It’s A Busy Month For Stormwater Events!
Jan 31st
Can you believe it is February already? Wow, time flies when you are having fun. It also flies when you are busy, busy. And here at LA Stormwater we’re busy doing our best to reduce urban runoff pollution. This month we hope you can take a moment out of your sure-to-be busy schedule to help us in this endeavor. Below is a list of stormwater-approved events around the area.
>Generation Earth is at a school near you on Wednesday, February 1st, helping to educate teachers and students about stormwater pollution and its negative effects on the environment.
>On Friday, February 3rd, Transition LA will be teaching how and why it is important to grow your own food. So join them at Redondo Beach for their Community Garden Work Day.
>Saturday, February 4th is a busy day. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro is hosting a Beach Cleanup. Sustainable Works is sponsoring a Green Living Workshop in Santa Monica and TreePeople will be doing a little mountain restoration work in Calabasas.
>Saving the coastline is something we can all appreciate. Come out for a lecture from someone who has been there and done that. Serge Dedina, Executive Director for WildCoast will be sharing his work on Tuesday, February 7th in Malibu.
>Heal the Bay is in More >
Generation Earth Is Bettering A Watershed Near You!
Jan 27th
Clean water is a team effort and Generation Earth is helping the LA Stormwater Program’s efforts in educating our City by providing kids and teachers with the opportunity to become engaged in their local communities and schools.
Generation Earth, an environmental education program of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, organizes Water Pollution Prevention Workshops in different areas of the City. These free events aim to help participants understand the dynamics of our urban watersheds.
Through localized restoration projects, teachers and students may install rain barrels, participate in a river cleanup or pick up trash along a streambed. All in all, the program is a direct way to allow people to become directly engaged and improve the health of their watersheds.
On February 11, TreePeople, which organizes Generation Earth’s projects, will be holding a Water Pollution Prevention Workshop in Beverly Hills. The half-day event is open to teachers, students and non-formal educators who are interested in organizing an event in their community.
For more information about Generation Earth’s February outing, or another Water Pollution Prevention Workshop to be held in Norwalk on March 3, please contact Loyda Ramos at 310-623-4856 or lramos@treepeople.org.
*Photo courtesy of Generation Earth.
Kick Off The New Year With A Little Clean Water Love!
Jan 3rd
It’s that time of year again. Do you have your list of New Year’s resolutions in front of you? Okay, good. Now, if you left one off, it’s not too late to add it on. Here it goes, are you planning on giving a little back to the environment in 2012?! We thought so! So why not start it off right this January and get involved in some eco-events in the LA area? Here’s a list of some upcoming eco-events:
> It is Whale Watching season! Every Monday of the month, head on over to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro for a little expedition that is sure to excite you and your family.
> We love trees! Do you love trees? On Thursdays this month Tree People will be adding a little tree beauty to their 45-acre headquarters atop Mulholland Drive. They love help, so love them back and join in on the planting!
> Transition LA is hosting a community garden work day on Friday, January 6th. Come learn how to grow your own food with the help of professionals! All skill levels are welcome to attend.
> The Bixby Marshland is ready for tours! On Saturday, January 7th the South Bay Environmental Services will open up this Carson More >
LA Stormwater Is Waving Thanks!
Nov 23rd
November is always a nice break from wagging our fingers, telling people not to do things, and start putting our hands together for all the amazing work that our followers, partners and volunteers have done to assist and promote the efforts of LA Stormwater.
First of all, we’d like to say, to all of our fans on Facebook, “you like us, you really like us.” Well, we like you too, and we are very thankful for the support through your comments, likes and shares so that others can stay up to date on local volunteer opportunities, gardening and water-related events, clean water tips, relevant news for eco-minded fans, fun contests and more! You’ve all really helped build a strong and active Clean Water community! Share our page with your friends and help us continue to grow!
We also want to say thanks to our partners for joining the Clean Water Team Effort—to name just a few: TreePeople, Green LA Coalition, Santa Monica Baykeeper, Mar Vista Green Garden Council, Keen for Green, the LA Conservation Corps, Heal the Bay, LA Creek Freak, Friends of the LA River, Friends of the Ballona Wetlands and My Plastic Free Life. All your support and the contributions of your sustainable visions have not More >
It Takes A Team Effort To Celebrate Clean Water
Nov 8th
We have a little mantra we like to repeat here at LA Stormwater and we can’t say it enough: Clean Water is a Team Effort! In other words, we are all in this thing together.
Fortunately, we have a great array of organizations and volunteers here in Los Angeles that help to build community and improve our local environment. We appreciate the hard work these organizations do and highlight a bit of their Clean Water efforts in the following appreciation video.
Thanks again to Heal the Bay, North East Trees, TreePeople, LA Conservation Corps, UMASS Amherst Alumni Club, LA Dodgers, Kids Ocean Day volunteers, Santa Monica Baykeeper and all the other groups that support Clean Water in the LA area.
Want to join in the fun? Visit our monthly list of community events to find an event near you and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on our videos!
Volunteer With Your Voice for a Cleaner LA
May 17th
By Shahram Kharaghani
This issue of the LA Stormwater newsletter is full of articles that are sure to excite your volunteering spirit.
We feature an article by TreePeople, one of the most active community groups in Los Angeles, explaining why it is important to plant some roots and give a little back to the city we love by taking the time to volunteer. Many of their monthly clean up and tree-planting outings can be found on our monthly events calendar.
Ida Talalla, the founder of Echo Park Trash Abatement Project (or TAP), is an inspiration to many for her commitment to her neighborhood of Echo Park. A dear friend of the LA Stormwater Program, Ida is the force behind an anti-litter campaign that has caught on across the city. Her grassroots organization, with its teams of volunteers, has become a blueprint for how to engage people at the local level to reduce litter. She believes that community involvement starts with you.
We also highlight the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works’ Office of City Beautification, which provides local community organizations with information and materials to help them set up and administer local beautification and clean-up events. They are a great resource and we encourage more organizations to More >
It’s Getting Personal
Apr 27th
by Andy Lipkis, Founder and President, TreePeople
If you live in L.A. you are responsible for the City’s water quality, water supply and flood safety. OK, maybe not all of it. But together, we are all urban watershed managers. Everything we drop on our driveways gets carried to our rivers, beaches and ocean. Every time we waste water we add to the City’s cost of treating stormwater pollution and wastewater (sewage) and increase the energy-intensive burden of importing our water from distant sources.
Our unwittingly wasteful behavior comes in part because we don’t see ourselves as co-managers of the City’s budget and our water. But times are changing and so are the tools that make it possible to powerfully change this reality.
Of all the options on the table to address, L.A.’s combined water, energy and economic crises, the one that could be implemented most quickly and that gives us the most personal power has often been ignored. It’s the one that considers the City an urban watershed and manages it as such.
Check out the 5-minute Miracle on Elmer Avenue video below and see how people are already working with various agencies and each other to radically transform their streets and homes to manage More >
Looking for a Last Minute (green) Holiday Gift?
Dec 23rd
Have you ever walked or driven past a tree and thought to yourself, “What a wonderful addition to this neighborhood?”
In many ways trees define who we are as people. We climb them, watch their leaves change and sometimes even pick their fruit.
Trees are also about more than aesthetics; they help clean the air by absorbing carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change. Trees also help replenish the soil and reduce the amount of sediment that runs into our local rivers when it rains.
There is no denying it, without trees the world wouldn’t be the same.
One of the Stormwater Program’s partners, TreePeople, is providing the opportunity for individuals to contribute to the local community by dedicating the planting of a new tree.
That’s right: with just a small donation you can help TreePeople plant a tree in Los Angeles in the name of whatever or whomever you would like.
There is simply no denying it, the more trees that are planted the better off the environment is in our city.
So visit their site to learn more about TreePeople and the opportunity to contribute something tangible to a local neighborhood in need of a tree.
(*Photo courtesy of TreePeople.)More >
