Monday Mailing 062419

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Monday Mailing

Year 25 • Issue 39 24 June 2019 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Depaving Paradise: Grassroots Portland Group Reclaims Parking Lots By Hand (Gabriel Leon) Mixed Water Supply Conditions Affect Hydropower Outlook In Pacific Northwest (Michael Hoch) Google Will Devote $1 Billion To Try To Tame Housing Costs in SF Bay Area (Emily Bradley) Feds Should Modernize Payments To Forest Communities, Groups Say What Is Traditional Development? (Gabriel Leon) Americans Need More Neighbors (Emily Bradley) Work-Life Balance Is A Myth. Do This Instead (Corum Ketchum) Cap And Trade: What Could Oregon’s Carbon Policy Cost You? (Michael Walker) The Case For A Fareless TriMet (Ariel Kane) Impossible Foods And Regenerative Grazers Face Off In A Carbon Farming Dust-Up (Bayoán Ware)

1. Depaving Paradise: Grassroots Portland Group Reclaims

Parking Lots By Hand

A little less asphalt. A little more greenery.

Quote of the Week:

" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” - John Lubbock

Oregon Fast Fact #19

In 1876 the University of Oregon opened in Eugene. Deady Hall was the first building on campus and still exists.

That’s the mission of Depave Portland, a volunteer group that is deconstructing parking lots all across the Oregon city, replacing them with water filtration gardens, or playgrounds for children. Since its founding in 2008, the organization has deconstructed some 75 parking lots across Portland, removing 150,000 square feet of pavement by hand with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers. Its projects have diverted more than 3.5 millions gallons of stormwater runoff from local watersheds. The movement is spreading; Depave groups modeled on Portland’s are now active in Canada, Cincinnati and Tennessee. Carlos Nuñez, a member of the board, spoke with Streetsblog to explain the motivation and how it all works. Streetsblog: So how did this idea for an organization get started? Nuñez: It started in 2008. I don’t think the folks who started it [Arif Khan and Kasandra Griffin] planned on starting an organization. There were just two people who wanted a garden. But the backyard was all paved. It was a parking lot for the people who lived there before.

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