Our communities need tree canopy more than ever in a changing climate 📣📣

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov ‪voice your support for the Urban & Community Forestry program and to maintain awarded IRA forestry funding.

We need climate champions in Sacramento now more than ever.

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to honor TreePeople’s 2025 Climate Champions ‪@carolinemenjivar.bsky.social‬
and Lisa Calderon for fighting for a greener, healthier future with green schoolyards and increased tree canopy for all!

No child dreams of playing on hot asphalt. And yet, more than 2.5 million K-12 students in California attend schools with less than 5 percent tree canopy in their play areas.

We asked students: what does your dream schoolyard look like?

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More trees and plants on campus can improve everything from students’ health to their learning outcomes. Are you ready to make a change at your local school? Here are a few tips for how to get a school greening project started!

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This Month's State of Change newsletter is packed with original stories, a roundup of the climate news in California and a Q&A with @treepeople-org.bsky.social about their important work and the $14 million in federal funding they've had frozen.
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HAPPY EARTH DAY! 🌎🌳

If you’re looking for a way to make a positive impact on our planet and local ecosystems today, we’ve got exciting news: thanks to the generosity of the Schuman Family Foundation, every gift you make to our Wildfire Resilience Fund will be DOUBLED!

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TreePeople’s 4th Los Angeles Urban Soil Symposium dug into climate gardening, the ways landscapes are socially and ecologically constructed, and strategies to better adapt our cities to the realities of climate change.

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How has climate change impacted your life in Southern California? Have you experienced severe weather events like fire, extreme heat, or flooding? Or noticed climate-related changes in your community or neighborhood?

We’re looking for stories for an exciting research project! tinyurl.com/yh5yjxjh

IMPORTANT UPDATE: although the federal government’s initial “funding freeze” has ended, millions of dollars in grant funds we rely on remain on hold. Here's what that means for our work:

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Winter showers lead to all kinds of beautiful March, April, and May flowers here in Southern California. Here are a few to keep an eye out for to as the weather warms:

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As the largest community-based org conducting restoration in SoCal, TreePeople is uniquely positioned to transform fire-scarred sites back into functioning, fire-adapted ecosystems.

Help support this critical work now by donating to our new Wildfire Resilience fund:

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Valentines for the person you love almost as much as you love native plants. 💘🌳

Fire recovery in LA's communities and wildlands will be a long road. But it's comforting to remember the resiliency of our native plants, which have evolved incredible adaptations for dealing with fire. In fact, some grow even better after the ashes settle.

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The recent LA fires took a devastating toll on both our communities and our local ecosystems, and many have reached out to ask when habitat restoration will begin in these burn scars.

The short answer: not for a while. Nature needs time to heal first. Here's why:

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