As the
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of TreePeople, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1973, Andy, now 54, has inspired hundreds of thousands of volunteers to
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plant more than two million trees throughout Southern California.
TreePeople 38 tools, blueprints, planting demonstrations, and tree-care supervisors free to all the participants,
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me. “You will need their support,” Andy said, referring to my neighbors. “ 40
the community behind you, the trees you plant will die in five years.” So I started knocking on doors, hoping to share
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I’d learnt in TreePeople’s seminar(培训班) about the critical role of trees in removing smog from the
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, cooling our homes and preventing water runoff.
Strange
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it may seem, some people are afraid of trees. “The roots destroy sidewalks,” one neighbor said, “
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will ruin my pipes. And I don’t want leaves.”
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told me.
When I called Andy about the
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I was getting from my neighbors, he encouraged me to keep trying. So my son and my wife delivered cookies while I went door to door. It
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