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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Many thanks to the 520 volunteers who planted with Friends of Trees the past two weekends at our Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative plantings! Below is a slide show of photos that several Friends of Trees volunteers took at our Vancouver planting on February 26, which was held in partnership with Vancouver Urban Forestry [...]
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By Andrew Land On Saturday, March 12, we’ll add almost 100 new street and yard trees to the Argay, Parkrose, Parkrose Heights, Russell, Sumner, and Wilkes neighborhoods, which are clustered just east of the I-205 corridor. The planting will be staged at the Eastminster Presbyterian Church at 12505 NE Halsey Street (map). It’s sponsored by [...]
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