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Green Urban Space is the integration of urban development, parks, trails, community gardens, urban farms, urban forest canopies, streams, wetlands, and fish and wildlife habitats that create productive places to live and work while preserving urban natural environments.
Greening the (918) Green Space Goal
Tulsa increases the percentage of green space within the city limits, thus reducing the heat island effect while also providing engaging live spaces for work and play.
Green Tips
Greening your Green Space:
- Enjoy our local urban green spaces-millions of children and adults suffer from nature deficient disorder-go outside and take a walk!
- Make sure to pick up litter.
- Reduce nonpoint source pollution (see water quality and conservation page for more information)
- Start a community garden
- Become an urban farmer
- Plant a native tree
- Advocate for more green space at PlaniTulsa.org
Panelists
Lindsay Perkins
David Lindsay Perkins is a native Tulsan and residential land developer for 29 years. The 1959 Edison High School Graduate received a BBA majoring in Management and Marketing from the University of Oklahoma in 1963. Linday and his Son Brandon Perkins manage the Presevation District, a 1300 acres of peace and tranquility: community estate of singe family homes. Nearly a quarter of the estate was donated to Land Legacy to help protect the area from residential development.
Terrie Correll
Brand new Zoo Director of the Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum, only 5 weeks on the job. She graduated from OSU in 1978 with a degree in Wildlife Ecology. She started her zoo career as a keeper at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. From my first day I was "hooked" on the profession.
Jim Horne
Jim Horne is the Executive Director of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. While growing up on a farm in southwestern Oklahoma, Jim Horne experienced the satisfaction of helping with many successful harvests, and the devastation of knowing some were lost to hailstorms and droughts. Horne has served as chairman of the Southern Region Council for the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program; as a member of the Scoping Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture for the President's Council on Sustainable Development; and as chairman of the U.S.D.A.'s National Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Council. He has written a book with co-authored Maura McDermott, The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture
Pat Treadway
Pat has worked as a City Planner for over 30 years. He has work experience in both Oklahoma and Iowa with cities and towns ranging in population from 60 to almost 400,000. Presently Pat is working to create parks, trails and open space in urban areas with Land Legacy, a private non-profit land conservation organization headquartered in Tulsa. Prior to his work with Land Legacy Pat was the Director of the City of Tulsa’s Planning Department.
Richard Bewley
While studying Forestry at Oklahoma State University he worked seasonally with the U.S. Forest Service in California and Colorado. After earning his degree Richard worked as a climber on a tree crew. A catastrophic ice storm caused Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO) to hire a cadre of Foresters in 1990, and Richard continues to serve to this day as Forestry Supervisor.
Past President of ‘Up With Trees!’ in Tulsa, and the Oklahoma Vegetation Management Association, he also served the Oklahoma Urban and Community Forest Council and the Midwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture. A speaker at many industry gatherings, Richard considers it an honor to be with you today.
Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint Booth Participation
- Land Legacy
- Preservation District
- Oklahoma Recreation and Parks Society
- Tulsa Zoo Friends
- Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Gardens
- Timothy Sean Fitzgerald Catering
- Global Gardens
- Up with Trees
Strategy Session Graphically Facilitated Notes
Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint Strategy Session Linear Notes
Each Greening the (918) seminar will have action steps that the community will collectively develop each evening. Additionally each seminar will have a Strategy Team that will assist in putting the actions into motion for the Tulsa Area. Please Green Space Strategy Session Graphically Facilitated Notes and Green Space Strategy Session Linear Notes for more information on the results of the Green Space seminar.