The City Plants team would like to invite you to join us on February 9th and February 10th for our next webinar in our Growing Vibrant LA Communities series Urban Tree Equity: Green Streets and Green Jobs. You'll have the chance to hear from LA's Urban Forest Equity Visiting Scholar, Dr. Vivek Shandas from youth working in the urban forestry and non-profit sector in Los Angeles, among many others. You can learn more about each of our Green Jobs Youth Panelists below.
Don't forget to RSVP for our webinars on Tuesday, February 9th (English) or Wednesday, February 10th (Spanish) or both! All are welcome – invite your family, neighbors, colleagues, and friends!
Your voice.
Your city.
Your urban forest.
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Sincerely,
The City Plants Team
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Meet Our Green Jobs Panelists: |
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Starr Brock, Corpsmember, LA Conservation Corp
Starr Brock is 22, and she is originally from South Central Los Angeles. Starr has been stewarding LA’s urban forestry as a Corpsmember with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps for two years, helping to beautify her neighborhood and other surrounding communities. With the LA Corps, Starr has built low income homes, plants trees, and maintains newly planted trees to make beautification and change happen throughout Los Angeles.
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Ana L. Carlin, Environmental Specialist II, Koreatown Youth & Community Center
Ana is 28 and was born in Mexico. Ana was in the California Conservation Corps (CCC) for three years. She was part of a team that focused on emergency response for fires, floods, earthquakes, and more. In her time at CCC, she worked on beautification projects in South LA and removed invasive species along state park trails. Now as an Environmental Specialist II, Ana maintains and plants new trees throughout LA. Ana has been working with KYCC for three years, and she is very proud of her work. Ana says, “It’s a great honor to work for an organization that not just helps the environment but the community as well, one that leads as an example.”
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Roberto Leon, Environmental Specialist, Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Robert is 24 years old and was born in East Los Angeles but raised in the South East Los Angeles Region. Robert's interest in Urban Forestry started when he was 13 years old as a volunteer at TreePeople. He continued volunteering in urban greening projects and began working with TreePeople in 2017 as one of their first Youth Tree Care Associates for their Southeast Los Angeles satellite office. In that role, he led volunteer events and helped plant over 1,500 trees and distribute 2,000 fruit trees in Southeast LA. He’s now been working at KYCC for about a year, and when asked about his job, Robert shared, "it has probably been the best work experience I have ever enjoyed in my life. Urban Forestry really made me change in so many ways in life and has helped me develop into a better man. I never would’ve guessed that planting trees would’ve opened so many doors for me and gifted me with so many great friendships. I would say that Urban Forestry saved my life at some point, so thank you mother nature for your beauty and efficiency.”
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Lesley Medina, Corpsmember at the City Plants Griffith Park Nursery, LA Conservation Corps
Lesley Medina is 18 years old and grew up in El sereno, but she currently lives in Burbank. As a Corpsmember with the LA Conservation Corps, Lesley supports the City Plants Griffith Park Nursery Site and assists with the LADWP-funded free Yard Tree Delivery Program. During COVID-19, Lesley has helped roll out the Curbside Free Tree Adoption Program for the City Plants Collaborative. Lesley has been with LACC for six months and shares, “it has been the best experience!”
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Diego Zapata, Nursery Manager and Community Organizer with North East Trees
Diego Zapata is a community organizer and applied biologist in Northeast and East LA who strives to advocate for greater access to open space and nature-based education for his neighborhood’s multigenerational community members. He currently manages North East Trees's native plant and tree nursery at Ascot Hills Park to protect Los Angeles's vulnerable relict plant populations and to support community-led restoration efforts throughout the county. To realize more environmentally just communities throughout the city, Diego empowers local youth to engage in urban greening to ensure a greener and more equitable city remains accessible to all.
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Adopt a fruit or shade tree! |
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City Plants and our partners have ramped up our Free Curbside Tree Adoptions as we prep for the Spring! Pre-order your trees for our next adoption: |
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TreePeople Adoption
Saturday, February 13th, 2021
8:00am-11:00am
*Registration closes at
12pm on Friday, 02/05
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Don't forget to regularly check our City Plants Calendar for more dates! |
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California Urban Forests Council’s ☀️ Hot & Dry! Webinar |
Learn how other municipalities are leveraging similar environmental conditions to advance the role of city trees. From Boise, ID to Tempe, AZ. 1.5 ISA CEUs will be provided. |
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Five Ways To Celebrate Tu B’Shvat
The holiday, which recognizes the beginning of Spring in Israel, kicks off the evening of Wednesday, January 27, and continues through the following day. Popular activities include planting trees and feasting on fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. But because this year is anything but normal, we’re suggesting some new traditions along with the tried and true favorites.
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Introducing TreePeople's New Lecture Series |
TreePeople is offering an exciting new series that will address a variety of environmental issues that impact our communities, including wildfires, clean water as a right, shade and urban heat, and the future of parks and open spaces. Join them for their first T.R.E.E. Talk on February 4th at 1:00 pm PST via Zoom.
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City Plants provides free trees for LA residents!
Select the type of tree you’d like and see if you qualify:
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Residents of the City of Los Angeles can receive up to seven free trees delivered straight to their home.
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Residents of the City of Los Angeles can sign up to have a street tree planted in front of their home, if there is space and if you commit to watering. |
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