Community Greening Resources
Do you envision a greening project that involves urban trees? Treepeople (founded by a Los Angeles teenager in 1973) offers guidance and support to community members who want to organize tree plantings.
https://www.treepeople.org/
Are you looking for a partner for design and implementation of urban greening projects or urban trees?
Northeast Trees
http://www.northeasttrees.org/
Lot to Spot focusses on working with one family at a time, translating those needs into projects that bring resources, access to healthy food, and health and wellness opportunities to underserved communities.
http://fromlottospot.org/
INSPIRATION
What makes a some public places full of life?
Project for Public Spaces
https://www.pps.org/
How does nature impact children?
Children and Nature Network
https://www.childrenandnature.org
TOOLKITS
Los Angeles Unified School District’s Sustainability Initiatives offers resources to help greening initiatives in LAUSD schools.
http://learninggreen.laschools.org/
Does your street have enough width to accomodate a bikelane or planting strip? Streetmix lets you test out what would work on your street.
Streetmix.net
Metro’s Green Places toolkit provides resources for communities to reimagine public spaces that make it easier to get to and use public transit.
https://www.metro.net/interactives/greenplaces/
EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Communities for a Better Environment builds healthier neighborhoods by organizing to prevent and to remediate sources of environmental pollution in the Gateway Cities.
http://www.cbecal.org/organizing/southern-california/
Public Counsel is a pro bono law firm working in the public interest. In Southern California, Public Counsel worked with community-based organizations to develop Equity Principles to guide equitable development along the Los Angeles River.
http://www.publiccounsel.org/home
http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/0970.pdf
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) serves Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach by preparing community members to engage in the decision-making processes that directly impact their health and quality of life.
http://eycej.org/
LA ROSAH is exploring new models of development that would expand low-income communities’ access to nature while also mitigating their risk for gentrification and displacement.
https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/where-we-work/southern-california
