In the News

October 2018 | Hillsboro Patch: Volunteers Spruce Up Boys & Girls Club For HillsDOer Day
October 2018 | Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods Newspaper “Hey Neighbor”: Turning Parking Lots into Paradise
September 2018 | Portland Tribune: Depaved! Boise-Eliot/Humboldt gets greener playground
June 2018 | Metro News: Grant to Depave transforms parking lot at M&M Marketplace into greener, urban plaza. En español: Una subvención a Depave transforma el estacionamiento del M&M Marketplace en una plaza urbana más verde
Summer 2018 | S!lence: Sous les pavés la verdure
May 2018 | Portland Tribune: MHCC to remove pavement to improve water quality
May 2018 | eTown: eChievement Award Spotlight – Arif Khan (Depave)
October 2017 | The Oregonian: Depave picks away pavement to create green space
August 2017 | The Nature Conservancy: Depaving – Where to Start
March 2017 | The Atlantic Renewal Project: Depaving for Healthier Communities
August 2016 | East Portland News: Homeless Shelter Gains Greenspace
July 2016 | Street Roots: Break It Up
July 2016 | The Guardian: Why Concrete + Rain = Flash Floods
July 2016 | Immense Possibilities: Energizing Neighborhoods
May 2016 | Arup Foresight: Cities Alive, Toward a Walking World
2016 | MIT Press: Sharing Cities, Smart & Sustainable Cities
December 2015 | Clackamas County SWCD: Collaboration Key to Outdoor Classroom
November 2015 | Swedish Water House: Green Solutions for Cleaner Water
October 2015 | City of Portland BES: Depaving at Saints Peter and Paul Church
June 2015 | Blooming Rock: Depave Breaks Down Cultural Barriers, Asphalt
March 2015 | YES Magazine: Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers: Undoing the Damage
Winter 2015 | Kinfolk Magazine: Community Entrepreneurs, The Do Gooders
Winter 2015 | Urban Design Group Journal: Greening the City – Difficult by Design
2014 | EastPDX News: New large-scale ‘Rain Garden’ cultivated in Lents
2014 | ASLA: The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Portland, Oregon
September 2014 | Build a Better Burb: Asphalt, Be Gone! Depave Replaces Parking Lots w/ Parks
July 2014 | Portland Business Journal – Here’s Your Chance to Unpave a Parking Lot
July 2014 | XRAY.fm – Depave Profile
July 2014 | PRX – Depave Projects Profile
July 2014 | Oregonian – Kick Some Asphalt
May 2014 | East PDX News – Rain Garden Saves Church, Helps Johnson Creek
April 2014 | PNCWA News – Depave Profile
April 2014 | EPA News – Parking Forest: A Natural, Sustainable Development Approach
August 2013 | Oregonian – Depave Helping Create Greenspace in Southeast Portland
Spring 2013 | River Network: River Voices – Depaving with Good Intentions
December 2012 | KBOO Radio – Portland Community Gardens Program Review
December 2012 | Ford Trend Book – Page 71
August 2012 | Architect Magazine – Spontaneous Interventions – Venice Biennale
July 2012 | Oregonian – Baltimore Woods Closer to Becoming Oak Meadow
June 2012 | Oregonian – Depave Turns Concrete Into Garden in St. Johns
June 2012 | The Christian Science Monitor – Pulling Up Pavement
May 2012 Chronicle of Philanthropy – Group Pulls Up Pavement to Create Paradise
April 2012 BBC News Magazine – Is There a Worldwide Parking Problem?
January 2012 Fast Company CoEXIST – Depave Returning Parking Lots to Paradise
January 2012 Our Planet Earth – Depave Interview
January 2012 | Treehugger – Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise
January 2012 | OPB Ecotrope – Depaving Portland: Will Your Driveway Be Next?
December 2011 | Oregonian – Capitol Hill Community Turns Asphalt into Paradise
October 2011 | Oregonian – Chief Joseph Creates Native American Plant Garden
October 2011 | Tactical Urbanism Salon – Depave
October 2011 | SW Portland Neighborhoods News – Capitol Hill Volunteers Dig Deep
August 2011 | Within Your Reach – First Depave Project in theJohnson Creek Watershed
August 2011 | Neighborhood Notes – Disjecta Replaces Parking Lot with Green
August 2011 | Neighborhood Notes – Volunteers Make Nature Play Area at James John
July 2011 | St. Johns Review – James John Gets a Playground Make-over
July 2011 | Oregonian – James John Elementary School Depave Project
July 2011 | Urban Farm Magazine – Green Top Feature (page 9)
July 2011 | Oregonian – SE Neighbors Tear Up Parking Lot at “Our Happy Block”
December 2010 | Ohio State University – Urban Farming Study: Parking Lots to Gardens
November 2010 | The Bee (Portland) – A Bit Less Asphalt in Southeast Portland
October 2010 | Planet Magazine – Peeling Off the Pavement
September 2010 | Grist – Portland Group Pulverizes Pavement to for Greenspace
September 2010 | SW Connection – Volunteers Shed Light on SW Community Garden
August 2010 | Neighborhood Notes – Food in the City: Fargo Forest Garden’s First Year
August 2010 | Catholic Sentinel – Parking Lots to Paradise
June 2010 | EPA News – Over-paved? Portland Group Reduces Impervious Surfaces (p. 15)
June 2010 | Daily Journal of Commerce – Volunteers Face Hurdles Before Work
May 2010 | Time Magazine – Extreme Makeover: Reinventing the Parking Lot
April 2010 | Yes! Magazine – Who Says Cities Have to be Islands of Concrete?
March 2010 | Portland Public Schools – Depaving at Jason Lee School
September 2009 | Neighborhood Notes – The Depave Project
August 2009 | Portland Parks & Recreation – Transforming Blacktop to Green
August 2009 | Oregonian – Volunteers Depave School Blacktop as Part of Greener Goal
August 2009 | Portland Mercury – 15,000 Square Feet of Asphalt for the Kids
July 2009 | Portland Mercury – Concrete Action
July 2009 | Soitu.es – Neighbors Take the Parking Spaces From Their Cars
June 2008 | Oregonian – North Portland Parking Lot Depaved to Create a Park
June 2008 | Sustain Lane – Depave This!
October 2007 | Portland Tribune – Jackhammers Welcome