Depave PDX
@depave.bsky.social
Since 2008, Depave has worked intentionally with communities to remove underutilized pavement, replacing it with living, permeable design. Join us at www.depave.org.
Tonight at the Future Green Plaza @ SE 7th & Sandy #PDX, a bipoc film fest presented by Art Heaux Studio - 8:30 pm - free and open to the public at your people's plaza on the Central Eastside www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
P-Town Short Film Fest — Depave
Join Art Heaux July 31 8:30pm - 10:00pm to experience and enjoy short films by amazing filmmakers and writers highlighting life experiences, love, and more!
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"The thing that makes a bike lane “equitable” is that most people can afford a bike even if they can’t afford a car... It turns out the transportation we needed was there all along, just waiting to get better... "E-bikes [are] cutting oil demand by a million barrels a day, probably more than EVs."
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Are bikes DEI, or are they a miracle? (Or both?)
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Depave is partnering with Multnomah County Public Health to implement a cooling intervention in the East PDX Gateway area. We might do a micro depave, or we may pop up some shade like this ⬇️ at a hot bus stop. We're analyzing demonstration sites now, let us know if you have a recommendation!
Artistic Shade Structure for New York City Bus Stop
In the summer of 2025, the vibrant installation “Limes” transformed Washington Empire Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, into a welcoming, shaded public space celebrating Caribbean...
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A slide from Mobycon about how we could build a safe bidirectional greenway on SE 7th from Sandy to Hawthorne. Planted buffers between bikes and cars + Euro-style raised bikeways can cancel out risk associated with bidirectional crossings on busier streets. No excuses PDX, let's get bidirectional!
We can make our streets safer and greener if we want to.
Rachel@rachelcinema.bsky.social · last wk.La piste cyclable sur Clark est l'une de mes préférées. P.S.: Et pour ceux qui diront qu'elle est vide et qu'elle ne sert à rien, c'est que vous ne comprenez pas le fonctionnement ni l'usage d'une piste cyclable qui a été pensée intelligemment et qui est bien ancrée dans un quartier. Peace.✌🏻🚲
It's not too late to take @pbotinfo.bsky.social's survey and weigh in on the Green Loop Concept Plan out now. But it will be too late next week, the online survey closes July 27th. This is a great opportunity to smash the "more trees!" button multiple times 🌱 www.portland.gov/transportati...
Section 4: Share Your Input!
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Cool pics posted on the meta site from DRT. Thanks to @johnthejohnster.bsky.social for sharing! Picture credit About_Bevans on IG. @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social and Bike Summer pennants flying!
tigard-stripes.bsky.social@tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 2w agoAt the Disaster Relief Trials in Seattle! disasterrelieftrials.com
"urban planning has conceived of land as a blank canvas to be designed upon rather than a living ecology... Disrupting this pattern calls for a reimagination of governance, from ruling over land to participating in the living systems that make life possible in a warming world"
How can cities beat the heat? The answer is right underfoot. | Opinion
Pavement creates hotter temperatures by absorbing and radiating heat, while blocking the soil and tree canopy coverage that could provide cooling.
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Oh behave Depave! A rrrrowdy fundraiser with POISON WATERS to raise funds for Depave's community projects! Tickets are limited, join us at Loyal Legion on the Central Eastside Sept 15 for drinks, prizes, friends, and fun! www.depave.org/events/drag-...
in all the hubbub about the blazers and cops coming for the Portland Clean Energy Fund, there's not enough discussion about the enormous good that PCEF is already funding - and noting that we'd get less off the good stuff if either effort is successful at siphoning funds katu.com/news/local/w...
What does the Portland Clean Energy Fund pay for? Inside one program funded by PCEF
Portland leaders may redirect Clean Energy Fund dollars to police or Moda Center upgrades. KATU spotlights current PCEF grants like Girls Build, a green construction camp for foster and unhoused girls...
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Thanks KGW for covering our mural event today! And thanks Judi Pacheco from Art Heaux & Portland Indigenous Marketplace for coordinating our People Over Pavement Summer Series and getting the word out - GO Judi! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_vI...
Community members paint mural in Portland's Central Eastside
YouTube video by KGW News
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Depave PDX@depave.bsky.social · 2w agoNew mural just dropped at SE 7th & Sandy! C'waam is an endangered, bottom-dwelling suckerfish native to Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin. The art was created by Klamath Tribes member Rowena Jackson (below) to raise awareness about their endangered status. www.klamathtribesnews.org/2025/12/16/r...
New mural just dropped at SE 7th & Sandy! C'waam is an endangered, bottom-dwelling suckerfish native to Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin. The art was created by Klamath Tribes member Rowena Jackson (below) to raise awareness about their endangered status. www.klamathtribesnews.org/2025/12/16/r...
Depave PDX@depave.bsky.social · 2w agoDepave kicks off our PEOPLE OVER PAVEMENT Summer Series today with Depave Department of Public Works' volunteer-driven plaza installation down at SE 7th & Sandy. Sign up for a volunteer shift with opportunities over the next two weeks ⬇️ www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
It's not too late to take @pbotinfo.bsky.social's survey and weigh in on the Green Loop Concept Plan out now. But it will be too late next week, the online survey closes July 27th. This is a great opportunity to smash the "more trees!" button multiple times 🌱 www.portland.gov/transportati...
Section 4: Share Your Input!
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Depave kicks off our PEOPLE OVER PAVEMENT Summer Series today with Depave Department of Public Works' volunteer-driven plaza installation down at SE 7th & Sandy. Sign up for a volunteer shift with opportunities over the next two weeks ⬇️ www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
Future Green Plaza 2026 — Depave
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the 2026 Future Green Plaza has arrived at SE7th & Sandy, thanks to these incredible volunteers. they'll be putting on final touches on the pop up plaza and raising the shade sails today if you want to stop by and say hi! www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
Depave PDX@depave.bsky.social · 2w agoDepave Department of Public Works is currently transforming SE 7th & Sandy into a public performance space and chill pocket park, drop by and say hi!
Depave Department of Public Works is currently transforming SE 7th & Sandy into a public performance space and chill pocket park, drop by and say hi!
𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴... 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝘃𝗲 & 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 Thurs Aug 6 4-5:30p SE 7th & Sandy Part of many exciting summer events at Portland's Future Green Plaza @depave.bsky.social RSVP/ info: www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
Future Green Plaza 2026 — Depave
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Depave PDX@depave.bsky.social · 2w agoDepave's design and engineering team is approaching a "30% design" threshold for this pocket park and PBOT capital project, with 60% threshold planned for this fall, and full shovel ready designs slated for late 2026/early 2027. See our project page on PBOT's site! www.portland.gov/transportati...
Yes! We fully support a Better Burnside and, as always, encourage @pbotinfo.bsky.social to utilize large canopy shade trees and stormwater planters to pursue traffic calming, protected micromobility, and safe refuge for pedestrians.
BikeLoudPDX@bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 2w agoODOT & PBOT say Burnside has seen 1,400 crashes in the last ten years, 300 of which involved human injury and four fatalities. A street this dangerous is not good for business, or people. "A better Burnside is possible." @strongtownspdx.bsky.social @pdx-fss.bsky.social @1000oregon.bsky.social
Depave kicks off our PEOPLE OVER PAVEMENT Summer Series today with Depave Department of Public Works' volunteer-driven plaza installation down at SE 7th & Sandy. Sign up for a volunteer shift with opportunities over the next two weeks ⬇️ www.depave.org/futuregreenp...
Future Green Plaza 2026 — Depave
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Here's a LOT of groups, and people, who are saying we want Burnside to connect people, not be another repaving project only for cars @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @councilorclark.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilortkl.bsky.social @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social
Thanks to Brooke Weeks for organizing the Plazas & Places bike ride this weekend! Here's Judi Pacheco from Art Heaux Studio, ride organizer Brooke Weeks, and Malena Marvin from Depave presenting the Future Green Plaza & Portland Indigenous Marketplace projects at SE 7th & Sandy
Congrats to @depave.bsky.social and woot for Portlanders!
2-way protected bike lane enthusiast@seachanger.bsky.social · 5mo ago"It took two years, but finally, in 2025, Jean Norwood’s dream of turning the parking lot at Morningstar Missionary Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, into a play area for children and a food garden with fruit trees came true. Working with Norwood to bring her vision to reality was Depave Portland"
Depave is launching a Green Passport Program! Join the growing movement of Depave - volunteer at two Depave events between and earn free VIP concert tickets to see CAKE at McMeniman’s Edgefield event space on July 24 and 25, 2026! Check out eligible volunteer events here: www.depave.org/events
Join us for a planting event at Vestal Elementary School! we are in the last phase of the green schoolyard build out and would love your help adding plants to the site. Sign up here: www.depave.org/events/plant...
In June of this year, @depave.bsky.social volunteers got together and pulled out 4000 sq ft of asphalt at Vestal Elementary in East PDX. Last weekend we got the band back together to plant it out! If you like the vibes, hit us up in the Give Guide - we have cool prizes! vimeo.com/1147931476?s...
Vestal Elementary School Tree Planting!
In early December, 2025, Depave worked in collaboration with Portland Parks & Recreation's Urban Forestry program to add trees to the recently depaved green…
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www.wweek.com/news/schools... Great coverage of our recent willow weaving workshop at the green schoolyard space at Vestal Elementary! Thank you Portland Clean Energy Fund for funding these kinds of important urban greening projects and Flora NW for harvesting willow and teaching us how to weave!
A New Outdoor Courtyard Comes to Vestal Elementary School
The project comes to a part of town with little access to parks or green space.
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There are lots of opportunities to win prizes if you donate this week to Depave's Give!Guide campaign. We are just over half way to meeting our year end fundraising goals with only a few days left. Contribute now! Link below: giveguide.org/nonprofits/d...
Hooray! Another great volunteer event this weekend at Vestal Elementary's new greenspace. thank you to the many volunteers who came out to add 12 new trees and three raised beds for food gardens. This community event was a great partnership with PP&R's Urban Forestry program!
Depave is in Give!Guide, Willamette Week's yearend giving campaign. Every donation of $10 or more today earns a chance to win a delightful staycation package courtesy of our friends at Portland Spirit and The Nines Hotel. Donate here: giveguide.org/nonprofits/d...
