Andy Lipkis

Founder of TreePeople
Engaging Nature and Community to Protect and Heal

Andy Lipkis is President of TreePeople, which he founded in 1973 as a guiding light for the global citizen forestry movement. For more than 35 years Lipkis’ leadership has helped make Los Angeles a testing ground for visionary, community-based efforts seeking urban environmental health and sustainability. Some examples include spearheading integrated watershed management approaches that apply forests’ natural infrastructure services in cities; helping create L.A.’s curbside recycling program and the L.A. Conservation Corps; and most recently working with Green L.A., a collaboration of 60 mainstream and environmental justice groups. He also serves on many boards, and in 2007 Mayor Villaraigosa asked Andy to help craft L.A.’s Climate Change Mitigation Plan.

Andy Lipkis will be speaking at the 2010 Bioneers Conference.



The Bioneers Conference is a leading-edge forum presenting breakthrough solutions for people and planet—join us in San Rafael, California, October 15-17 (with intensives October 14 and 18), 2010.