Greening Committee

The Greening Committee meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (and during break-out sessions at the monthly neighborhood association meetings) at Second Stories (5530 SE 122nd Ave.)

     The Greening Committee meets from 7:30 to 8:15pm

     Chair: Dolores Wood - e-mail her pgna_greening [at] yahoo [dot] com (here).

The mission of the Greening Committee is to improve the quality of life within the Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association's boundaries through the enhancement and protection of the natural environment.

Some of our goals are to:

.   Work toward a greener cleaner civic ecology

.   Identify environmentally fragile areas within PGNA boundaries

.   Make recommendations to retain and/or restore environmentally fragile areas

.   Implement efforts to benefit environmentally fragile areas

.   Address flood control issues by restoring wetlands

.   Work with the Planning Commission, Portland Parks and others to retain and restore green

    spaces, wetlands and parks 

.   Remove invasive species throughout the neighborhood and replant with native species

.   Develop new and existing parks 

.   Develop community gardens and urban agriculture

.   Develop community tool shed

.   Establish a farmers market  

.   Work toward proper water mitigation throughout the PGNA area

.   Conduct tree and shrub plantings

.   Conduct neighborhood clean-ups

.   Collaborate with overlap neighborhoods to address environmental issues within overlap areas

.   Promote green jobs in the neighborhood

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