Nasome "Awakening the Dreamer" Facilitators Group

TreePeople’s mission reaches far beyond the simple act of planting a tree. While our K-12 education programs raise environmental awareness, they also enrich academic lessons and teach potent life skills. While our forestry programs restore watersheds and fragile habitats, they also heal inner-city communities, bring neighbors together, cool and green campuses, and address serious urban issues such as water and energy conservation, flood prevention and stormwater pollution. The T.R.E.E.S. project is changing the nation’s approach to urban watershed management, motivating other cities to adopt “best management practices” and follow our lead.



Trees provide TreePeople with the perfect context for involving people in healing the urban environment. Their very life cycle demonstrates how perfectly nature deals with energy and waste – if humans would work with rather than override nature.



TreePeople’s visionary work these past few years is encapsulated in T.R.E.E.S. – Trans-Agency Resources for Environmental and Economic Sustainability. This project is proving the case and building political will for public funding of a wide-scale retrofit of the Los Angeles landscape so the city can function and be managed as a living ecosystem.



TreePeople hopes to demonstrate many T.R.E.E.S. concepts as it builds the Center for Community Forestry at Coldwater Canyon Park. More than a showcase of progressive environmental engineering, the center will be an educational facility that supports TreePeople’s mission to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for their environment.