Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:49 pm
EarthShare Oregon, the state’s only nonprofit federation connecting Oregon businesses and their employees with environmental nonprofits, has announced its new executive director: Jan Wilson, an environmental attorney from the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene. Below are excerpts from EarthShare Oregon’s press release about Jan Wilson. Jan has been involved with EarthShare Oregon for many [...]
Filed under: Tree City USA
No Comments »
Tags: development, giving
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:48 am
By Kris Day Want to help foster tree stewardship in your neighborhood? Interested in getting to know the new trees around your block? Does contributing to a huge, ongoing, citizen-science research project sound neat? Want to do any of these things wearing a super-cool Friends of Trees T-shirt? If you answered “Yes” to any of [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees
No Comments »
Tags: education, G2G, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 12:41 pm
By Kris Day Come out next week and celebrate all that Oregon’s trees do for us, from cleaning our air and water to providing invaluable habitat for wildlife. They’re a renewable natural resource, and they make our communities nice places to live! Portland Arbor Week 2011 kicks off with a ceremonial tree planting and other [...]
Filed under: FOT Events
No Comments »
Tags: Arbor Day '11
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:13 am
According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 131 countries and territories and thousands of cities on all seven continents have pledged to participate in Earth Hour 2011 tomorrow. The hour-long, lights-out event begins on Saturday, March 26, at 8:30 p.m. PDT. In addition to turning lights out for an hour, people across the world are [...]
Filed under: FOT Events, Tree City Earth
No Comments »
Tags: BES, education, G2G, Green Space Initiative, Metro, Plant It Portland, planting, street trees, Vancouver, volunteering, yard trees
