By Jessica Antoine With fall around the corner, learn proper pruning and tree care at a free TreeTalk workshop in Vancouver on September 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The workshop begins at the the corner of McGillivray Boulevard and Briarwood Drive in the Cascade Highlands neighborhood. Participants will learn how to prune young street [...]
By Jessica Antoine The City of Vancouver is looking for an AmeriCorps member to serve as Neighborhood Tree Coordinator (NTC) from September 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012. The NTC will work with Vancouver Urban Forestry and its organizational partner Friends of Trees to expand outreach efforts in targeted neighborhoods, to coordinate tree-planting projects in [...]
Tags: street trees, Vancouver, volunteering, yard trees
Whether or not you have fruit trees at your home, you can help two nonprofits in the Portland-Vancouver area that glean fruit from city trees to give to people who don’t have enough fresh food. Several key volunteer leaders at Friends of Trees work with Urban Abundance in Vancouver, WA, a nonprofit whose website says [...]
Tags: fruit trees, Vancouver
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 [...]
Tags: BES, education, G2G, Green Space Initiative, Metro, Plant It Portland, planting, street trees, Vancouver, volunteering, yard trees
