Volunteers sought to support nature patches at local parks
Portland Parks & Recreation and the Bureau of Environmental Services are collaborating at Irving Park to create nature patches and rain gardens that will capture rainwater, foster habitat for wildlife, and add...
Clean Air Warriors: Gregory Sotir
Gregory Sotir, Cully Air Action Team
Strategy: regulating the regulators
As part of the Cully Air Action Team , Gregory Sotir will be the first to tell you that the Cully neighborhood is one of the...
Clean Air Warriors: Jessica Applegate
Jessica Applegate, Eastside Portland Air Coalition
Strategy: upsetting the paradigm of passive citizen involvement
"If you had asked a few years ago if she ever imagined being an environmental activist, Jessica Applegate might have laughed out...
Clean Air Warriors: Akash Singh
Akash Singh, Community Organizer, Neighbors for Clean Air
Strategy: make policy personal
Neighbors for Clean Air advocates for stronger air quality standards in the Portland area. As a community organizer with NCA, Akash Singh is...
Clean Air Warriors: Greg Bourget
Greg Bourget, Executive Director and Lead Researcher, Portland Clean Air
Strategy: directly regulating polluters with data
Greg Bourget cut his teeth in the Earth First! movement, and its decentralized and mission-focused philosophy informs all the work...
Clean Air Warriors: Beven Byrnes
Beven Byrnes, Volunteer Spokesperson, Portland North Harbor Neighbors
Volunteer Spoke Neighborhood Group Spokesperson Coordinator, Portland Clean Air
Strategy: linking communities affected by air toxics to build strength in numbers.
The next time you meet someone who...
Multnomah County Drainage District Prepares Us To Get Levee-Ready
by Jessica Rojas, NECN
The Multnomah County Drainage District (MCDD), located between NE Columbia Blvd and Marine Drive, is a system of four districts, charged with the objective of protecting lives and property from flooding....
Boise-Eliot Neighborhoods Offered Some “Releaf” for Their Distressed Trees
by Jessica Rojas, NECN
The Albina ReLeaf project is the first program of its kind in Portland, according to the Albina Neighborhood Tree Team (ANTT), and it has already served as a model for other...
Northeast History: Shaped by Water, Drawn by Hand
By Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
You wouldn’t know it today, but if you walk down the 15th Avenue hill near Prescott Street, you are skirting the edge of a massive geological event. This humble...
Our River, Our Future
by Mischa Webley, NECN Staff Writer
The same year that the Environmental Protection Agency designated an 11-mile section of the Willamette River a toxic Superfund site, Donovan Smith was a grade schooler in Northeast Portland....