The West Los Angeles Group of the Sierra Club is proud to present “Growing a Greener City” with Torin Dunnavant. Torin is the Community Engagement Manager for TreePeople, an environmental nonprofit that is working to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment. TreePeople was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by 18 year old activist Andy Lipkis. Lipkis and a group of teenagers began planting trees three years prior, when he was fifteen, at summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. Lipkis heard that smog from Los Angeles was drifting up to the mountains and killing the forest. He rallied his fellow campers, tore up a parking lot, planted smog-tolerant trees...and TreePeople was born. Since then, TreePeople staff have gone on to plant more than two million trees in the Los Angeles area and have developed one of the nation’s largest environmental education programs. The presentation will cover TreePeople history, programs, the environmental needs of Los Angeles, and some fun and sustainable changes that people can make at home.
Event details: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7pm at the Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City 90230. This free educational event is sponsored by the West Los Angeles Group of the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter. Plenty of free lighted parking. Refreshments are served and there is always a lively talk accompanying the program. Feel free to bring a friend; all meetings are open to members and non-members of the Sierra Club.
