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Earth Day 2021

Celebrate Earth Day with your neighborhood! Give back to the Earth (and your community) by attending one of the clean-up events below.

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Stormwater Stars

Friday, March 26, Noon – 2pm in West Portland Park neighborhood* Saturday, March 27, 10am – Noon in West Portland Park neighborhood* Sunday, April 18, 1pm – 3pm in Multnomah neighborhood* *Addresses provided upon registration Stormwater Stars workshops provide ideas on how to manage rain that falls around the spaces where you live, work, and play. You’ll […]

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Wildfire-Wise

Check out these eight tips to become wildfire-wise this weekend!

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Old Town’s Cloud Village

There is a village in the clouds, hovering just above a single block in Old Town.  Local organization Gather:Make:Shelter, with funding from Neighbors West-Northwest, recently adorned a self-governed houseless community’s perimeter fence with serene images of sky and water. The images grant the temporary residents privacy and a visual break from the often harsh urban […]

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Neighborhood Murals

Bringing art, love, and hope to the streets! During this unprecedented time, Neighbors West-Northwest in partnership with the City of Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability, dedicated funding to support artists and small businesses in NW Portland. Art can help make even the hardest day a little more bearable and remind us of all that […]

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What’s That Smell? There’s an App for That.

Portland Clean Air (PCA) encourages Portlanders to download a free app for reporting air pollution called Smell MyCity. The app crowdsources community reports of pollution odors to develop a portrait of air quality across the Portland region. Users can document positive or negative reports based on the smell outside, which PCA’s toxic smell response team […]