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Malena Marvin

Malena Marvin

Executive Director of Depave, the Portland, Oregon nonprofit that removes underutilized pavement and replaces it with green, permeable spaces.

Sep 22, 2026

9:50
Can you talk a little bit of the gray infrastructure versus the green infrastructure? Because again, you know, the lay person doesn't really think about either one of these things, but I think that they're important for us just living in the world to understand the difference.
10:05
Yeah.
10:06
And I do, I want to just preface this with, A very, you know, it was very intentional that our organization and movement was named Depave.
10:15
It was a word that was made up at the time.
10:17
Yeah.
10:18
And it's a word that's now spread around the world and become ubiquitous.
10:20
We think it started here in Portland with this great as a verb and a noun.

11 MINS LATER

21:31
But talk about some of the health outcomes and some of the maybe the projects you've been doing.

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