About 75 volunteers and community members gathered Saturday to plant over 160 trees with Friends of Trees via its Green Space Initiative (GSI) program. The ceremonial planting—special dignitary shovels included—was the official start of a three-year project to plant along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. Special representatives from the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and other [...]

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Tags: canopy, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, runoff, shade, Verde, video

Circa the 1990s, this video produced by PGE and featuring narration by the great James DePreist, outlines Portland’s street tree history from day one to the creation of Friends of Trees. Watch our other videos on our Youtube page. –TS

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Tags: canopy, carbon, habitat, planting, runoff, Seed the Future, shade, street trees, video

Let’s face it, city lots are small lots, but that doesn’t mean large trees won’t fit.  In fact, it means just the opposite. The problem with small trees is that the top of the tree (the wide part) is close to the ground. With a large tree, the small part (the trunk) is close to [...]

Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: canopy, dogwood, Douglas-fir, maple, shade, street trees, yard trees

The BBC and London Times report this week that the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has a new study on geo-engineering. One main tenet of the report: artificial trees have the potential to remove CO2 thousands of times faster than real trees—those pretty green things that also absorb runoff, provide habitat, create shade and generally please [...]

Filed under: Tree City Earth
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Tags: carbon, habitat, poll, runoff, shade