For 36 years, TreePeople members have generously provided the foundation for our continuing programs. Membership makes a huge difference and we thank all our donors for their special gifts. Benefactors of the President’s Club ($100,000+) The Walt Disney Company Patrons of the President’s Club ($50,000-$99,999) The Boeing Company Stone Family Fund Redwood Circle of the Grove ($25,000-$49,999) Spike TV, 38th Floor Productions Sequoia Circle of the Grove ($10,000-$24,999) The Kayne Foundation Steve Martin Sue Ann & Richard Masson Margaret Maw Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Northrop Grumman Ronald S. Thomson Family Leadership Circle of the Grove ($5,000-$9,999) Dr. Nancy Gibbs Harriet & Richard Gold Sycamore Circle of Grove ($2,500-$4,999) Roger Brossy Julie Erwin Caroline & George Kinkle Grove Members ($1,000-$2,499) Elie & Michele Atias Robert Baumann Deborah & Andy Bogen Bonnie Brae Lisabeth Collins Carolyn & Steven Conner Laurie Coots David Devine Madelyn & Bruce Glickfeld Anita Hirsh Vanessa Hodge Jill & Gerben Hoeksma Marjorie Hoskinson Youriy & Shannon Iliev Chris & Penny Irwin Black Jena & Michael King Lynn Loeb & Dennis Wilson John Murphy Judith R. Nelson Rosanne O’Brien Carolyn Ramsay & Andy Goodman Deborah Ricketts Miriam & Tom Schulman The Shapiro Family Charitable Found Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Sybil Stoller Scott Vaughan Patricia & Arthur Worthington Golden Leaf Members ($500-$999) Rachelle & Ed Begley, Jr. Melinda Benedek Christina Benson & Kenneth Wells Philippa Calnan Harry & Denise Chandler Jennifer Fulkerson Barbara Goodridge Mark Gordon Leslee Hackenson & Roger Allers Matthew Herman Candace Hirsch Rebecca Kahn Pamela & Peter Kelly Robin & Bill Lappen Diana Lidow Phillips & Emily Marshall Sally Maslon Fund Arlene Meyerson Alejandro Ortiz Jim Ostach Beverly Jeanne Ryman Thomas Safran Arnie & Marla Schwartz Robert & Elizabeth Scott Nadav Serensieb G. Elda Zeldis TreePeople Revamps Web site TreePeople rings in 2009 with a completely redesigned Web site featuring streamlined content, new technology and fresh images. Our aim is to educate and inspire people to do their part to help create functioning community forests. Volunteer users will benefit from a customized calendar of events allowing them to instantly register. The new site also features training tools, discussion forums, e-commerce, and more! Check out the new look at www.treepeople.org. Sign-up Online for TreePeople Action Alerts! Visit www.treepeople.org to get started. Annette Bening Helps Launch TreePeople Center $10-Million Public Education Resource Serves Youth and Adults together to transform neighborhoods into sustainable ecosystems that act like a natural forest. The new facilities include: The S. Mark Taper Foundation Environmental Learning Center, a training classroom for students and adults; The W. M. Keck Foundation Nursery for growing native plants to restore damaged local watersheds; the La Kretz Urban Watershed Garden offering hands-on exhibits to teach water harvesting and conservation; the LEED® (Leadership Energy and Environmental Design) platinum-certified Conference Center; and L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, TreePeople Founder and President Andy Lipkis, actor Annette Bening, and L.A. City Councilmember Wendy Greuel join the a 216,000-gallon underground cistern that ribbon cutting ceremony of TreePeople’s Center for Community Forestry. collects and stores rainwater from the buildings, grounds and parking lot for later use in landOn October 2, 2008, actor Annette scape irrigation. Bening helped celebrate the opening Design of TreePeople’s Center was provided I’m inspired by of TreePeople’s Center for Community by Marmol Radziner and Associates, Mia Lehrer TreePeople’s work to Forestry. This four-acre, $10-million environ- & Associates and Carlos Madrid III of DMJM use trees as visible mental educational campus, located in Coldwater Design / AECOM. Major funding was provided models of sustainability by the City of Los Angeles Proposition K Canyon Park, is primed to serve more than and to also help Program, Kresge Foundation, Lawrence Deutsch 70,000 visitors annually. transform Los Angeles Foundation, Lloyd Rigler, Morton La Kretz, “Forests have always been the life support Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, S. Mark into a truly green city. system for the planet,” said Bening. “I’m Taper Foundation, and W. M. Keck Foundation. inspired by TreePeople’s work to use trees as – Annette Bening To learn more visit www.treepeople.org. visible models of sustainability and to also help transform Los Angeles into a truly green city.” Bening joined school children at the ribbon cutting event at TreePeople Center, where attendees learned basic principles of how natural forests function and simple ways to apply these principles in an urban setting to actively prevent – and protect against – climate change, water and air pollution, and water shortages. The Center supports TreePeople’s vision Each year, 10,000 children from all over Los Angeles of creating “functioning community forests” County will enjoy trips to TreePeople’s “mountain fountain” throughout Los Angeles, where people come during environmental Eco-tour field trips. Photo by Laurie Kaufman Check out our new Web site! www.treepeople.org Address Service Requested 12601 Mulholland Drive Beverly Hills, California 90210 Telephone (818) 753-4600 GLENDALE, CA PERMIT NO. 1233 PAID PRESORTED NON-PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PRINTED WITH soy INK on recycled, chlorine-free paper (minimum 30% post-consumer waste) Winter 2009 Photo by Laurie Kaufman Thank You Third Quarter Donors! necessary and easy to do, especially if we work together. TreePeople’s unique skill is to bring people of all ages and walks of life together to discover their power to make a lasting difference. We educate youth and adults about the living ecosystem in our cities known as the community forest. We demonstrate how to take the benefits of trees and restore the way the forest functions in our city and surrounding natural areas. At the Center, TreePeople uses forest-mimicking features such as cisterns, water-conserving plants, permeable surfaces, and mulch to harvest rainwater. This water is used for irrigation and reduces our reliance on imported water, thus lowering our high energy costs. Together we can green our cities and, in the process, respond quickly and effectively to the challenges of climate change. We hope you’ll join us on this tree-shaded pathway to a greener future. Andy Lipkis, TreePeople Founder & President Eco Calendar TreePeople volunteers and staff support many events each month. Below are just a few of our many activities. To receive our monthly e-calendar, contact [email protected]; or for a complete calendar listing, please visit www.treepeople.org. Join TreePeople and the Mountains Restoration Trust for a morning of habitat restoration. This park, previously burned by fire, needs our help to restore biodiversity and ecological balance. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. Sunday, January 11, Million Trees LA Park Planting, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., West L.A. Come help plant trees in this West L.A. park! Emmanuel El-Helou is working towards his prestigious Eagle Scout award. Join his team to help plant trees in this beautiful park. To register visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. January 3 to January 25, Fruit Tree Distribution, SF Valley, East L.A., South Bay/Harbor Area Winter 2009 Join our annual fruit tree distribution! This year we’re giving away 12,000 fruit trees to underserved groups and we need volunteers to help with pruning, prepping and pick-up. To register, volume 32 number 1 published quarterly Editor: Laurie Kaufman Photo Editor: Juan Villegas Design: KK Design visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. M ember B enefit Saturday, February 7, Street Tree Planting, 9 a.m. to noon, Venice Citizen Forester Amy Harvey and her neighbors are beautifing this lovely Venice neighborhood. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. Saturday, February 21, Generation Earth Water Pollution Prevention Workshop, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., TreePeople Center for Community Forestry FREE for Los Angeles County middle and high school teachers, students, administrators, and non-formal educators wanting to create a campus water pollution prevention project. For more information, contact [email protected]. Sunday, March 1, Mountain Restoration, 9 a.m. to noon, Santa Monica Mountains Mountains Restoration Trust and TreePeople are helping restore a beautiful preserve in the Santa Monica Mountains. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. TreePeople’s mission TreePeople is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the results as a model for the world. Subscription and membership information TreePeople 12601 Mulholland Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (818)753-4600 www.treepeople.org TreePeople is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. TreePeople members receive a 20% discount on handmade sterling silver custom belt buckles, jewelry & accessories Pat A r e ias Ste r ling 9625 Brighton Way (off Rodeo Drive) Beverly Hills (310) 858-9030 www.patareias.com TreePeople Board of Directors Ruth Y. Goldway Steve Richards, Chair Margaret Coe Light, Vice Chair Jim Hardie Ray A. Landy Gwyn Quillen, Audit Chair Andy Lipkis Dennis Arnold Lee Lipkis Walt Burkley Sara Nichols Jean Aubuchon Cinader Mary Carol Rudin Harry Dolman David Zucker Edgar Dymally The San Bernardino National Forest has suffered major fire devastation in recent years and volunteers are needed to help restore damaged forest lands. Students from L.A. County middle and high schools gathered to learn leadership skills to bring back to their schools and ecology clubs. Are you concerned about the fate of our fire-ravaged mountains and wilderness areas? Are you troubled by local forests dying from drought and disease? Now you can do something to support these vital parts of our watersheds and sources of clean air. Thanks to generous support from The Boeing Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, TreePeople is recruiting, training and leading volunteers to tackle the multi-year challenge of restoring and reforesting forests and open spaces throughout Southern California. We need YOU to be trained as a volunteer leader to help spread the word, get your hands dirty planting trees and pull out invasive species. Only you can make this very ambitious challenge a reality. Visit TreePeople’s new Web site and sign up to be part of this historic effort and then join our partners Mountains Restoration Trust, the U.S. Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest Association and others as we restore open spaces to their original, green, hard-working condition. To learn more, visit www.treepeople.org or email [email protected]. On Friday, October 10, L.A. County’s Generation Earth program held its annual Teen Forum at the ABC/Disney Studios in Burbank. More than 100 students from more than 20 L.A. County middle and high schools participated in activities and presentations that deepened their understanding of environmental issues specific to Los Angeles. Students received resources and tools to create projects on their campuses or in their communities that have a positive environmental impact. Jamie Keyser, Community Relations Director for The Walt Disney Company, welcomed student participants and applauded them for their commitment in taking the lead in environmental stewardship with their peers. Student-led project ideas included campus-wide recycling campaigns, e-waste collections, beach and river clean ups, campus gardens, and tree plantings. To learn more about Generation Earth’s Teen Action Program contact Loyda Ramos at [email protected]. V olunteer H ighlight : R ich W aters , C itizen F orester Do You Know? TreePeople has been instrumental in the passage of several critical pieces of state legislation that will have beneficial impact on urban forestry issues in Los Angeles and throughout California. TreePeople identified and helped craft several pieces of legislation and provided continous support to ensure the legislation success of the following two bills. •AB 2045 updates and broadens the Urban Forestry Act of 1978. This bill highlights the role urban forests play in reducing greenhouse gases, improving air and water quality, conserving energy and water, and providing recreation and other environmental benefits. •SB 732 establishes a cabinet-level “Strategic Growth Council”. This Council will serve as a forum to coordinate infrastructure spending to assist in the development of sustainable communities, and to address land use-related causes and impacts of climate change. I first started with TreePeople in 1990 by taking a Citizen Forester training. I just showed up after hearing stories about this great group of people who did great ecological things. My real work with TreePeople started in 1992 when I received funding for a tree planting on my street and subsequently planted 19 deodar cedar trees. Those trees are now 25 feet tall. Over the years I’ve volunteered at tree plantings and tree care events at schools, streets, parks and mountain areas. One of my favorite moments took place at a tree planting on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. It started raining heavily and I was decked out in shorts, a TreePeople t-shirt and my signature fuchsia socks. I was dripping wet from head to toe and stood in the doorway of an upscale boutique, urging the people inside to PLEASE water the trees we had just planted. I was joking of course! TreePeople has allowed me to participate in an ever growing community of like-minded Angelinos dedicated to improving the earth by planting trees. 2 3 Seedling News The TreePeople Center for Community Forestry is now open and represents a pathway to a healthy, green future. TreePeople built its new facilities so visitors can see tangible, immediate and easy steps they can take to create a sustainable Los Angeles and also help prevent global warming and adapt to the consequences of climate change. Nearly 40 years of knowledge about this issue have resulted in very little societal action because of government inability to impose “lifestyle change” on its citizens. TreePeople’s unique approach is to attract and inspire people to make environmentally sustainable choices at home, work and school. Our new facilities demonstrate how each home or office can beautifully and dramatically reduce energy, water use and waste. These lifestyle changes are reasonable, Photo by Loyda Ramos Saturday, January 10, ‘Weed War,’ 9 a.m. to noon, Malibu Teen Forum Calling Mountain Forestry Volunteers! Courtesy of TreePeople Photo by Melinda Kelley A Pathway to Hope necessary and easy to do, especially if we work together. TreePeople’s unique skill is to bring people of all ages and walks of life together to discover their power to make a lasting difference. We educate youth and adults about the living ecosystem in our cities known as the community forest. We demonstrate how to take the benefits of trees and restore the way the forest functions in our city and surrounding natural areas. At the Center, TreePeople uses forest-mimicking features such as cisterns, water-conserving plants, permeable surfaces, and mulch to harvest rainwater. This water is used for irrigation and reduces our reliance on imported water, thus lowering our high energy costs. Together we can green our cities and, in the process, respond quickly and effectively to the challenges of climate change. We hope you’ll join us on this tree-shaded pathway to a greener future. Andy Lipkis, TreePeople Founder & President Eco Calendar TreePeople volunteers and staff support many events each month. Below are just a few of our many activities. To receive our monthly e-calendar, contact [email protected]; or for a complete calendar listing, please visit www.treepeople.org. Join TreePeople and the Mountains Restoration Trust for a morning of habitat restoration. This park, previously burned by fire, needs our help to restore biodiversity and ecological balance. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. Sunday, January 11, Million Trees LA Park Planting, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., West L.A. Come help plant trees in this West L.A. park! Emmanuel El-Helou is working towards his prestigious Eagle Scout award. Join his team to help plant trees in this beautiful park. To register visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. January 3 to January 25, Fruit Tree Distribution, SF Valley, East L.A., South Bay/Harbor Area Winter 2009 Join our annual fruit tree distribution! This year we’re giving away 12,000 fruit trees to underserved groups and we need volunteers to help with pruning, prepping and pick-up. To register, volume 32 number 1 published quarterly Editor: Laurie Kaufman Photo Editor: Juan Villegas Design: KK Design visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. M ember B enefit Saturday, February 7, Street Tree Planting, 9 a.m. to noon, Venice Citizen Forester Amy Harvey and her neighbors are beautifing this lovely Venice neighborhood. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. Saturday, February 21, Generation Earth Water Pollution Prevention Workshop, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., TreePeople Center for Community Forestry FREE for Los Angeles County middle and high school teachers, students, administrators, and non-formal educators wanting to create a campus water pollution prevention project. For more information, contact [email protected]. Sunday, March 1, Mountain Restoration, 9 a.m. to noon, Santa Monica Mountains Mountains Restoration Trust and TreePeople are helping restore a beautiful preserve in the Santa Monica Mountains. To register, visit www.treepeople.org or contact Lisa Sotelo at [email protected] or (818) 623-4879. TreePeople’s mission TreePeople is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the results as a model for the world. Subscription and membership information TreePeople 12601 Mulholland Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (818)753-4600 www.treepeople.org TreePeople is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. TreePeople members receive a 20% discount on handmade sterling silver custom belt buckles, jewelry & accessories Pat A r e ias Ste r ling 9625 Brighton Way (off Rodeo Drive) Beverly Hills (310) 858-9030 www.patareias.com TreePeople Board of Directors Ruth Y. Goldway Steve Richards, Chair Margaret Coe Light, Vice Chair Jim Hardie Ray A. Landy Gwyn Quillen, Audit Chair Andy Lipkis Dennis Arnold Lee Lipkis Walt Burkley Sara Nichols Jean Aubuchon Cinader Mary Carol Rudin Harry Dolman David Zucker Edgar Dymally The San Bernardino National Forest has suffered major fire devastation in recent years and volunteers are needed to help restore damaged forest lands. Students from L.A. County middle and high schools gathered to learn leadership skills to bring back to their schools and ecology clubs. Are you concerned about the fate of our fire-ravaged mountains and wilderness areas? Are you troubled by local forests dying from drought and disease? Now you can do something to support these vital parts of our watersheds and sources of clean air. Thanks to generous support from The Boeing Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, TreePeople is recruiting, training and leading volunteers to tackle the multi-year challenge of restoring and reforesting forests and open spaces throughout Southern California. We need YOU to be trained as a volunteer leader to help spread the word, get your hands dirty planting trees and pull out invasive species. Only you can make this very ambitious challenge a reality. Visit TreePeople’s new Web site and sign up to be part of this historic effort and then join our partners Mountains Restoration Trust, the U.S. Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest Association and others as we restore open spaces to their original, green, hard-working condition. To learn more, visit www.treepeople.org or email [email protected]. On Friday, October 10, L.A. County’s Generation Earth program held its annual Teen Forum at the ABC/Disney Studios in Burbank. More than 100 students from more than 20 L.A. County middle and high schools participated in activities and presentations that deepened their understanding of environmental issues specific to Los Angeles. Students received resources and tools to create projects on their campuses or in their communities that have a positive environmental impact. Jamie Keyser, Community Relations Director for The Walt Disney Company, welcomed student participants and applauded them for their commitment in taking the lead in environmental stewardship with their peers. Student-led project ideas included campus-wide recycling campaigns, e-waste collections, beach and river clean ups, campus gardens, and tree plantings. To learn more about Generation Earth’s Teen Action Program contact Loyda Ramos at [email protected]. V olunteer H ighlight : R ich W aters , C itizen F orester Do You Know? TreePeople has been instrumental in the passage of several critical pieces of state legislation that will have beneficial impact on urban forestry issues in Los Angeles and throughout California. TreePeople identified and helped craft several pieces of legislation and provided continous support to ensure the legislation success of the following two bills. •AB 2045 updates and broadens the Urban Forestry Act of 1978. This bill highlights the role urban forests play in reducing greenhouse gases, improving air and water quality, conserving energy and water, and providing recreation and other environmental benefits. •SB 732 establishes a cabinet-level “Strategic Growth Council”. This Council will serve as a forum to coordinate infrastructure spending to assist in the development of sustainable communities, and to address land use-related causes and impacts of climate change. I first started with TreePeople in 1990 by taking a Citizen Forester training. I just showed up after hearing stories about this great group of people who did great ecological things. My real work with TreePeople started in 1992 when I received funding for a tree planting on my street and subsequently planted 19 deodar cedar trees. Those trees are now 25 feet tall. Over the years I’ve volunteered at tree plantings and tree care events at schools, streets, parks and mountain areas. One of my favorite moments took place at a tree planting on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. It started raining heavily and I was decked out in shorts, a TreePeople t-shirt and my signature fuchsia socks. I was dripping wet from head to toe and stood in the doorway of an upscale boutique, urging the people inside to PLEASE water the trees we had just planted. I was joking of course! TreePeople has allowed me to participate in an ever growing community of like-minded Angelinos dedicated to improving the earth by planting trees. 2 3 Seedling News The TreePeople Center for Community Forestry is now open and represents a pathway to a healthy, green future. TreePeople built its new facilities so visitors can see tangible, immediate and easy steps they can take to create a sustainable Los Angeles and also help prevent global warming and adapt to the consequences of climate change. Nearly 40 years of knowledge about this issue have resulted in very little societal action because of government inability to impose “lifestyle change” on its citizens. TreePeople’s unique approach is to attract and inspire people to make environmentally sustainable choices at home, work and school. Our new facilities demonstrate how each home or office can beautifully and dramatically reduce energy, water use and waste. These lifestyle changes are reasonable, Photo by Loyda Ramos Saturday, January 10, ‘Weed War,’ 9 a.m. to noon, Malibu Teen Forum Calling Mountain Forestry Volunteers! Courtesy of TreePeople Photo by Melinda Kelley A Pathway to Hope For 36 years, TreePeople members have generously provided the foundation for our continuing programs. Membership makes a huge difference and we thank all our donors for their special gifts. Benefactors of the President’s Club ($100,000+) The Walt Disney Company Patrons of the President’s Club ($50,000-$99,999) The Boeing Company Stone Family Fund Redwood Circle of the Grove ($25,000-$49,999) Spike TV, 38th Floor Productions Sequoia Circle of the Grove ($10,000-$24,999) The Kayne Foundation Steve Martin Sue Ann & Richard Masson Margaret Maw Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Northrop Grumman Ronald S. Thomson Family Leadership Circle of the Grove ($5,000-$9,999) Dr. Nancy Gibbs Harriet & Richard Gold Sycamore Circle of Grove ($2,500-$4,999) Roger Brossy Julie Erwin Caroline & George Kinkle Grove Members ($1,000-$2,499) Elie & Michele Atias Robert Baumann Deborah & Andy Bogen Bonnie Brae Lisabeth Collins Carolyn & Steven Conner Laurie Coots David Devine Madelyn & Bruce Glickfeld Anita Hirsh Vanessa Hodge Jill & Gerben Hoeksma Marjorie Hoskinson Youriy & Shannon Iliev Chris & Penny Irwin Black Jena & Michael King Lynn Loeb & Dennis Wilson John Murphy Judith R. Nelson Rosanne O’Brien Carolyn Ramsay & Andy Goodman Deborah Ricketts Miriam & Tom Schulman The Shapiro Family Charitable Found Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Sybil Stoller Scott Vaughan Patricia & Arthur Worthington Golden Leaf Members ($500-$999) Rachelle & Ed Begley, Jr. Melinda Benedek Christina Benson & Kenneth Wells Philippa Calnan Harry & Denise Chandler Jennifer Fulkerson Barbara Goodridge Mark Gordon Leslee Hackenson & Roger Allers Matthew Herman Candace Hirsch Rebecca Kahn Pamela & Peter Kelly Robin & Bill Lappen Diana Lidow Phillips & Emily Marshall Sally Maslon Fund Arlene Meyerson Alejandro Ortiz Jim Ostach Beverly Jeanne Ryman Thomas Safran Arnie & Marla Schwartz Robert & Elizabeth Scott Nadav Serensieb G. Elda Zeldis TreePeople Revamps Web site TreePeople rings in 2009 with a completely redesigned Web site featuring streamlined content, new technology and fresh images. Our aim is to educate and inspire people to do their part to help create functioning community forests. Volunteer users will benefit from a customized calendar of events allowing them to instantly register. The new site also features training tools, discussion forums, e-commerce, and more! Check out the new look at www.treepeople.org. Sign-up Online for TreePeople Action Alerts! Visit www.treepeople.org to get started. Annette Bening Helps Launch TreePeople Center $10-Million Public Education Resource Serves Youth and Adults together to transform neighborhoods into sustainable ecosystems that act like a natural forest. The new facilities include: The S. Mark Taper Foundation Environmental Learning Center, a training classroom for students and adults; The W. M. Keck Foundation Nursery for growing native plants to restore damaged local watersheds; the La Kretz Urban Watershed Garden offering hands-on exhibits to teach water harvesting and conservation; the LEED® (Leadership Energy and Environmental Design) platinum-certified Conference Center; and L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, TreePeople Founder and President Andy Lipkis, actor Annette Bening, and L.A. City Councilmember Wendy Greuel join the a 216,000-gallon underground cistern that ribbon cutting ceremony of TreePeople’s Center for Community Forestry. collects and stores rainwater from the buildings, grounds and parking lot for later use in landOn October 2, 2008, actor Annette scape irrigation. Bening helped celebrate the opening Design of TreePeople’s Center was provided I’m inspired by of TreePeople’s Center for Community by Marmol Radziner and Associates, Mia Lehrer TreePeople’s work to Forestry. This four-acre, $10-million environ- & Associates and Carlos Madrid III of DMJM use trees as visible mental educational campus, located in Coldwater Design / AECOM. Major funding was provided models of sustainability by the City of Los Angeles Proposition K Canyon Park, is primed to serve more than and to also help Program, Kresge Foundation, Lawrence Deutsch 70,000 visitors annually. transform Los Angeles Foundation, Lloyd Rigler, Morton La Kretz, “Forests have always been the life support Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, S. Mark into a truly green city. system for the planet,” said Bening. “I’m Taper Foundation, and W. M. Keck Foundation. inspired by TreePeople’s work to use trees as – Annette Bening To learn more visit www.treepeople.org. visible models of sustainability and to also help transform Los Angeles into a truly green city.” Bening joined school children at the ribbon cutting event at TreePeople Center, where attendees learned basic principles of how natural forests function and simple ways to apply these principles in an urban setting to actively prevent – and protect against – climate change, water and air pollution, and water shortages. The Center supports TreePeople’s vision Each year, 10,000 children from all over Los Angeles of creating “functioning community forests” County will enjoy trips to TreePeople’s “mountain fountain” throughout Los Angeles, where people come during environmental Eco-tour field trips. Photo by Laurie Kaufman Check out our new Web site! www.treepeople.org Address Service Requested 12601 Mulholland Drive Beverly Hills, California 90210 Telephone (818) 753-4600 GLENDALE, CA PERMIT NO. 1233 PAID PRESORTED NON-PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PRINTED WITH soy INK on recycled, chlorine-free paper (minimum 30% post-consumer waste) Winter 2009 Photo by Laurie Kaufman Thank You Third Quarter Donors!