Depave is partnering with Johnson Creek Watershed Council on this stormwater retrofit project. This project will have three vegetated swales in the low-income seniors Stonebridge Apartments parking lot, which is located right alongside the banks of Johnson Creek. ...

Terra Nova Science & Sustainability is a hands-on, half-day experience open to high school students in the Beaverton School District. Students earn science and elective credits while participating in sustainable farming, engineering, and practicing social...

Leaders from NARA NW reached out to us in 2019 with the vision of transforming this huge parking into a healing space for their community. After years of planning, we were finally able to Depave in October 2022. On October 22, 2022, we worked alongside over 60...

This is the last of three schools in Depave’s Centennial School District Expansion. We removed approximately 7,000 sf of asphalt, which will reduce the annual stormwater runoff by ~70,000 gallons annually. The dilapidated parking lot has now been transformed into a...

On May 7th we held our Crew Leader training at Peninsula Elementary. The first half of the day was spent in the classroom covering topics of environmental justice from the history of redlining and the Urban Heat Island Effect, and the context for Depaving. We then...

We had an awesome, sunny Depave day at Whitman Elementary! We pulled up about 850 square feet of asphalt to make way for 6 tree wells, which will provide some much needed shade for the Whitman Wildcats. Our partners at UWD PreBuild ripped up an additional 1700 square...

This is the second of three schools in Depave’s Centennial School District Expansion. We removed 3900 sf of asphalt, which will reduce the annual stormwater runoff by 39,000 gallons annually. The area has now been transformed into a natures play area with a stage,...

Our first depave after the pandemic began was small but mighty! A small crew of Depave staff, board members, and crew leaders worked in the heat to rip up 792 sf of 5” asphalt and 3” sub gravel to make room for 4 shade trees to provide refuge for the kiddos on the...

Thanks to such a hardworking and enthusiastic volunteer crew, we ripped up ~7,400 sf of asphalt at Powell Butte Elementary! Special thanks to our very own #djdepave Josh Cabot for making an epic comeback and keeping us grooving and moving all day! And thank you...

We had one of our biggest volunteer turnouts at Sitton Elementary in St. John's! 85 depavers helped us rip up about ~3,000 square feet of asphalt to make way for a rain garden that will manage storm water, create natural habitat, and provide an educational and...

We had an awesome day! With the help of our amazing volunteer crew - which included folks from Mercy Corps NW, PNCWA, INFLOW, Shapiro Didway, and Ecotone - we made way for a big beautiful rain garden and a native understory. We also dug out two smaller rain gardens,...

We kicked some serious asphalt with some teens at the Siletz Tribal office as they re-indigenized a planting strip by making way for native medicinal and cultural plants. Feeling inspired by their youthful energy, generosity & wit! Stay tuned for a future planting...

We had a super fun day with families, teachers, neighbors, and volunteers from Campus Compact Oregon, Elemental Technologies and GBD Architects ripping it up to expand the play area and add trees for shade to the school. Thanks everyone!   Date: Depaved June...

The Inukai Boys and Girls Club and Depave want to extend a big THANK YOU to all our project partners and the hard-working volunteers who came out to transform a parking lot into a safe, accessible outdoor play space for the 200 youth served by the club each day. The...

Wow, what a project! An energetic army of 150 volunteers assaulted asphalt, tore up turf, and transformed the outside of Hillsboro's Multicultural Marketplace to create a green community plaza with rain gardens, a permeable vendor patio, a cafe pergola, cultural...

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who came out September 9, 2017 to depave 3200 square feet of parking lot at Ascension Catholic Church in Montavilla neighborhood (743 SE 76th Ave). In a whirlwind of flash mob depave that finished over 2 hours...

What an impressive crew of scalawags walked the drop box plank to get the job done! We had such a great time creating the amphitheater at Lent School in 2015, we couldn't resist returning to the scene of the pry to help out on this next step to improve...

We crammed ourselves into some pretty small areas and got sweaty and dirty ripping out pavement -- and then had some really great popsicles! Huge thanks to the 60 volunteers who turned out to break up the vast sea of pavement that is the playground at Woodmere....

100 degree days just can't keep the Depave Crew down! Over 60 brave volunteers came out despite the dire forecasts to lend a hand in beginning the transformation to add a humongous rain garden in this vast sea of pavement. And how good it looks after volunteers...

  We began Depave's 10th season of urban greening with an easy, breezy, fun depaving with a great group of folks to break ground on two long rain gardens at the Russellville Grange Hall in NE Portland. Date: Depaved June 11th, 2017 Planted: November 2017...

Depaving at Bridgeport has got to be one of the most fun events Depave has ever done! Nearly 65 volunteers came out for the final project of the 2016 season. We smashed pavement, ripped up concrete, tore out grass and non-native shrubs, dug in the...

Neither rain, nor rain, nor more rain can keep a good crew from ripping it up. Depaving at CAIS makes way for a stormwater basin, rain sculpture, pollinator habitat and naturescaping. Date: Depaved September 17th, 2016 Location: Clackamas Academy of...