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Published on Thursday, October 02, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
STUDIO CITY - A slurry of candy wrappers, plastic bottles and oil gushed into a storm drain Thursday and slithered out to sea.
And children from Toluca Lake Elementary stared at the polluted stream and cried, "Oh, nooo!"
"If we don't like this, what can we do to fix it?" said Cody Chapel, an educator for TreePeople, beside a mock river into a faux Pacific. "Keep the trash out of the stream, people, because it all ends up in the ocean."
The stream gurgled through a $10 million education campus that officially opened Thursday at the TreePeople headquarters at Coldwater Canyon Park.
The four-acre Center for Community Forestry advocates how to use trees and the best environmental practices to reduce water, air and other pollution. And to transform Los Angeles into a sustainable leafy city.
"Los Angeles was once a healthy and beautiful environment," said actress Annette Bening, a TreePeople regular, during the ribbon-cutting with city, county, state and federal officials
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