Posted on January 11, 2010 at 3:41 pm
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 elected officials [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative, Portland Canopy
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Tags: canopy, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting, runoff, shade, Verde, video
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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
Filed under: Portland Canopy
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Tags: canopy, carbon, habitat, planting, runoff, Seed the Future, shade, street trees, video
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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 the [...]
Filed under: Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: canopy, dogwood, Douglas Fir, maple, shade, street trees, yard trees
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 2:37 pm
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 [...]
Filed under: Tree City Earth
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Tags: carbon, habitat, poll, runoff, shade
Posted on July 29, 2009 at 11:39 am
As covered in The Oregonian, this event was a complete success, with hundreds of recorded honks and some general tree-benefit awareness garnered for good measure.
Thanks again to the generous ice cream man!
–TS
Filed under: FOT Events, Green Space Initiative, Neighborhood Trees, Portland Canopy
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Tags: shade, video
