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Urban Green explores the ribbons of greenery in our city environments. The one hour documentary looks at the relationship between urban watersheds, community gardens and farmers' markets and shows how they all connect us to the cycles of life: the cycles of growing food, eating what's in season and the changing water levels of the rivers and creeks that flow through our communities. Urban Green challenges the ways that we look at and interact with our urban communities: such as thinking about stormwater run off from streets as tributaries to the rivers that flow through our cities or recognizing that preserving farmland close to cities not only provides sustainable food systems, but also improves watershed health. The documentary focuses on watersheds, gardens and farms around Portland, Oregon, but the stories it tells are relevant to communities everywhere. We hear the voices of nationally known environmental leaders like Mike Houck (who is based in Portland), as well as authors Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") and Richard Louv ("Last Child in the Woods").
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Piece Description
Urban Green explores the ribbons of greenery in our city environments. The one hour documentary looks at the relationship between urban watersheds, community gardens and farmers' markets and shows how they all connect us to the cycles of life: the cycles of growing food, eating what's in season and the changing water levels of the rivers and creeks that flow through our communities. Urban Green challenges the ways that we look at and interact with our urban communities: such as thinking about stormwater run off from streets as tributaries to the rivers that flow through our cities or recognizing that preserving farmland close to cities not only provides sustainable food systems, but also improves watershed health. The documentary focuses on watersheds, gardens and farms around Portland, Oregon, but the stories it tells are relevant to communities everywhere. We hear the voices of nationally known environmental leaders like Mike Houck (who is based in Portland), as well as authors Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") and Richard Louv ("Last Child in the Woods").
Broadcast History
7/31/2006 KBOO-FM. Portland, Oregon
Transcript
Urban Green
A Radio Documentary by Barbara Bernstein
Richard Louv: I had a real sense of ownership, as many of you did of my woods, they were mine, to the extent that as an eight, nine year old I think I pulled out hundreds of survey stakes that I knew had something to do with the bulldozers that were taking out other woods. How many here pulled out survey stakes? I hereby induct you into the secret society of stake pullers.
It?s April 2006 and author Richard Louv is giving the keynote address at the annual Livability Summit in Portland, Oregon. Sitting in the back recording his speech, my mind wanders back to 1990. My neighbors were trying to stop row houses from being built on a corner lot in our neighborhood. Carl, who lived in the house next door, had turned the lot into a wild art garden. Huge oil canvases and sculptures dominated the view from the street. But hidden among...
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