On the afternoon of Oct. 16, the final day of Sukkot, Jews will begin the annual practice of inserting a short but key line into the Amidah prayer: Mashiv haruach u morid hageshem: “Who causes the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Lipkis, founder of TreePeople, in his Westside front yard. The green wall behind him is made of eight, 125-gallon tanks that ...
Los Angeles officials and environmentalists have begun deploying emergency low-tech watering devices to try to save trees in desperate need of water during the drought. The improvised contraptions, ...
Leon (Lee) Lipkis was born in Salt Lake City to Russian immigrant parents, Abram Lipkis and Mary Altschuler. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1928. Lipkis attended John Burroughs Junior High and Los ...
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)-- Andy Lipkis was 15 years old on the first Earth Day in 1970 -- the year he says he realized what his calling in life would be. Three years later, Lipkis and his teenage ...
Despite huge population growth, the city uses less water now than it did in 1970 One group is trying to harness the city's rainfall instead of letting it wash out to sea Everybody knows Southern ...
Andy Lipkis founded one of the largest independent nonprofit environmental groups in Southern California, TreePeople, which is famous in Los Angeles for helping battle the floods of 1978 and 1980, ...
Long before eco-friendly products lined supermarket shelves and global warming was as widely accepted as the Big Bang Theory, Andy Lipkis was educating Angelenos about saving the environment, living ...
When Andy Lipkis was growing up in Baldwin Hills in the 1950s and ’60s, the air was so thick with smog, just breathing caused him pain. The pollution was even damaging the trees at his summer camp in ...
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Herman R. Lipkis is a real estate and hospitality attorney with Holland & Knight.
Evan Lipkis is a physician, professor, and author. He practices internal medicine at Glenbrook Hospital and served as the medical consultant for WGN radio. He is also an editorial advisor for ...