Sustainable Today 1311 Pt3 Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
Channel: Sustainable Today
Date: 10/11/2013

The City of Portland leads the way in creating sustainability in Portland, Oregon.

There is an entire office dedicated to Sustainability, as well as several other bureaus that focus on projects that create vibrant, sustainable communities.  One of them is the Bureau of Environmental Services which, in addition to other tasks, is responsible for creating green infrastructure to mitigate rainwater, pollution, and the urban heat island effect.

Jason Raschke met with several of the key people responsible for this infrastructure and takes us on a short tour of a few of the over 1300 facilities now in place around the city.