Posted on August 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Did you read this story, “Tree Planters Tout Shade and Beauty,” in Saturday’s Oregonian?
Friends of Trees has launched a media campaign featuring whimsical posters and door hangers with a “Where’s Waldo?” aspect to them—the more you look, the more you see.
“The old signs were a little wonky,” said program director Brighton West, explaining the switch.
According [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, street trees, yard trees
Posted on August 23, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Did you see this OregonLive video of the Hawthorne Bridge brunch? Be sure to check the two-minute mark.
Want your own Plant It Portland sign? Just ask for one when you find your tree online.
–TR
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Tags: canopy, G2G, street trees, video
Posted on May 27, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Thirty-eight trees will add shade this summer around the PGE-Pacific Power joint substation at SE 8th Ave. and Harrison St.
On May 26, Friends of Trees joined PGE, Pacific Power, Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services and Verde to plant Rocky Mountain Glow Maples, Hawthorns, Prairiefire Crabapples, and Flowering Pears as part of the city’s Grey to Green [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, video
Posted on April 11, 2010 at 5:37 pm
The city of Portland is looking for up to 10 new employees to work on increasing the area’s tree canopy on behalf of the Grey to Green (G2G) Initiative.
As a G2G partner with the Bureau of Environmental Services (BES), Friends of Trees works closely with these city staffers to get the right street and yard [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, jobs, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 24, 2010 at 10:07 am
Calling trees just as important as big sewer pipes, Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman helped Friends of Trees kick off its largest Neighborhood Trees planting of the season Saturday.
Thanks to more than 200 volunteers who participated in the first-day-of-spring planting, 300 large street and yard trees were planted in the neighborhoods of Cully, Madison South, [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, video
Posted on March 8, 2010 at 9:42 am
By Teri Ruch
Mix about 20 bicycles, a dozen carts and trailers, 190 big trees, planting tools, the perfect pre-spring morning and 75 volunteers—from babies to boomers—and what do you get?
A fun planting day that ended with a community potluck and new trees to clean our rivers, add shade to neighborhoods, and [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 4, 2010 at 9:55 am
It has been a few years now and Portland continues to develop its infrastructure of street swales and curb extensions.
The Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) developed and is implementing these runoff-collecting tools along Portland’s streets in an effort to keep the Willamette River cleaner.
Street swales and curb extensions are also the next generation of street [...]
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Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
Posted on February 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm
A new interactive landing site for the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) informs residents of runoff management options and monitors results for any specific property in the city.
A Portland home owner can type in their address and find out how much their average monthly stormwater bill is and how many thousands of gallons a [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 4:41 pm
By Whitney Dorer
Each year, the Neighborhood Trees program starts the planting season off with a training for new crew leaders coupled with a planting in the neighborhoods of Sellwood-Westmoreland and Brooklyn. Last Saturday, it was a full house with over 50 volunteers learning what it means to be a crew leader. These individuals will teach [...]
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Tags: G2G, magnolia, persimmon, planting, training
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Partners in Community Forestry 2009
National Arbor Day Foundation Conference: Nov. 9
With an emphasis on combining both ‘grey’ and ‘green’ approaches to improving storm runoff control, the Bureau of Environmental Service’s Tabor to the River (T2R) program hopes to plant 3,500 trees by 2023.
That is, of course, if the funding becomes more secure, said BES Environmental [...]
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Tags: Arbor Day '09, BES, G2G, runoff, T2R
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
The Portland City Council approved ‘Treebate‘ today, the Bureau of Environmental Services’ (BES) latest effort to entice more home owners to plant trees on their property.
Through the program, Portland residents can fill out a short form and send in their tree purchase receipt for up to $50 off a future utility bill.
Similar to the BES [...]
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Tags: BES, G2G
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Portland Parks & Recreation officially welcomed the planting season Saturday with its second annual Dig-It event, planting 28 trees at Mt. Tabor Middle School.
Organizer Karl Dawson of Portland Parks said the event was a success, thanks to the spectacular weather and great support from Portland Public Schools, Friends of Trees and Grey to Green.
“We were [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Last Friday Portland City Club members met at the Governor Hotel to learn the social, economic and environmental benefits of trees in cities.
What the crowd of about 150 received from Kathleen L. Wolf, research scientist in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, was an analysis of why the city of Portland [...]
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Tags: G2G
Posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:02 pm
In a study of sold homes on the east side of Portland, a new report says street trees add an average of $8,870 to sales prices and reduce time-on-market by almost two days.
The report, which will be published in Landscape and Urban Planning, is the first of its kind to examine the “effect of urban [...]
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Tags: canopy, carbon, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 3:36 pm
The Joinery—a long-time Friends of Trees partner and local maker of exquisite wood furniture (see left)—was recently honored with a Green Power Leadership Award from the Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA Green Power Partners use 100 percent green power and demonstrate a dedication to environmentally sensitive business practices.
“We like to be on the forefront of new ideas [...]
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Tags: G2G, runoff
