Depave is working to tear up that asphalt and make green spaces bloom again. “From parking lots to paradise.” That’s one of the slogans of Depave, a nonprofit group determined to reverse Joni Mitchell’s grim vision of an asphalt-covered America.
For nearly four years, the Portland, Oregon-based group has been
literally tearing up superfluous parking lots and other underused
expanses of asphalt and turning them into productive greenspace.
In the summer of 2008, for their first project, Depave’s organizers
recruited 147 volunteers to rip up a roughly 2,500-square-foot parking
lot next to the Waypost Café in north Portland, eventually turning it
into the Fargo Forest Garden.
Since then, the group has pulled up unnecessary patches of asphalt all
over the city. In its 20 projects so far, Depave has worked with
schools, businesses, and even private residents to create new gardens,
parks, landscaped yards, and at least one pumpkin patch.
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