Tree people
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TreePeople is a nonprofit environmental organization based in Los Angeles that works to address urban environmental challenges through community education and projects that help recreate the healthy functions of a forest ecosystem in urban settings. Their goals include expanding Los Angeles' tree canopy to provide benefits like cooler temperatures and cleaner air, as well as implementing "forest-mimicking" technologies like permeable paving and rainwater capture systems where trees cannot be planted. TreePeople supports communities to plant and care for trees while also demonstrating sustainable solutions to issues like lack of green space, water shortages, and air pollution.
Tree people
- 1. Job prepared by: Gabriel Lourenço nº 2 11B
- 2. TreePeople is an environmental nonprofit that unites the power of trees, people and technology to grow a sustainable future for Los Angeles. Simply put, their work is about helping nature heal our cities.
- 3. TreePeople’s mission is 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 process as a model for the world.
- 4. Their early efforts in the 1970s focused on educating and inspiring people to plant and care for trees. Why? Because more trees means cooler temperatures, cleaner air, replenished groundwater supplies and a safer, more beautiful city. Expanding the tree canopy over L.A. remains one of their central goals. But the worsening impacts of global warming and the looming threat of water shortages tell they need to do more.
- 5. L.A.’s urgent environmental challenges led TreePeople to ask an important question: In places they can’t plant trees – e.g., where buildings and parking lots cover the land – what else can they do to green their city? Earth’s life-giving forests inspired a solution! They can protect their natural resources and cool their city by using technology to re-create the healthy functions of a forest in an urban setting. What type of technology? Examples include: permeable paving, French drains, swales, rain barrels, cisterns and other relatively simple “forest- mimicking” innovations.
- 6. Their task now is to assist communities to put technology into action alongside healthy, well-cared-for trees in order to create a Functioning Community Forest every neighborhood of L.A.
- 7. TreePeople inspires, engages and supports 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.
- 8. To achieve this, they... Train and support communities to plant and care for trees ; Educate schoolchildren and adults about environmental issues ; Demonstrate sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems ; Work with government agencies on critical water issues ; Operate a beautiful public park …
- 9. TreePeople works to alleviate urban environmental problems by bringing the healing effects of the forest to their city. Here's why their work matters: Cities cover less than one percent of our planet, but contribute 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions – a cause of global warming. Dark-colored pavement and rooftops in sprawling cities like L.A. create “urban heat islands” that worsen global warming.
- 10. Ninety percent of the school grounds in L.A. are covered by asphalt. L.A. has to import 85 percent of the water it uses – at a huge cost to consumers and the ecosystems that supply the water. L.A. has the worst air quality of any major city in the United States, posing a threat to the health of their residents.
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