For over 100 years Portland has relied on engineered solutions to deal with our abundance of rain water run off. But in the past decade environmental advocates within and without city government have helped to shape a new vision that values this watery abundance as an asset that enhances our city rather than a problem that needs to be piped underground.

Lisa Libby works with Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams on environmental policy issues. Dean Marriot is the director of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services. On January 9, 2008, they joined Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein for a discussion on turning Portland's systems for stormwater management from grey to green. Click on the link above to listen.