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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
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 [...]
Tags: BES, bike, G2G, hornbeam, maple, runoff, street trees, tupelo
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 [...]
Tags: BES, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees, yard trees
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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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 [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '09, BES, G2G, runoff, T2R
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: G2G
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nothing beats the oh-so wonderful, ‘Y1.’ For the Bureau of Environmental Services’ crew canvassing Portland’s neighborhoods, this is the golden codename that gets a street tree in the ground.
As part of Portland’s Grey to Green Initiative with Friends of Trees, these city employees are in their first full-time season of detailed information gathering and door-to-door [...]
Tags: BES, G2G, oak, planting, street trees, tulip, yard trees