Tag: Oregon - Page 8
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Pie Footwear Opens in Portland
Can your footwear be socially conscious and fashionable? Yes, according to Pie Footwear (the shoes are not edible), which just opened their doors in Portland, Oregon. JC and Stacey Matney own the store and began with the
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Green Power Sports Tour 2008
One man. One veggie-oil powered car. Four months. 20,000 miles. Today Joe Connor, freelance sports-writer, leaves San Diego for his 3rd Annual Green Power Sports Tour, kicking off at a pre-season Raiders game in Bakersfield. Loaded
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Paul Stamets at TED: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World
Six Ways that Mushrooms Can Help Save the WorldYesterday I posted about MushroomExpert.com, and in the process of researching that post I came across the above video of Paul Stamets speaking at TED which, for some reason, we have yet to feature on
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Women's Bicycle Racing Takes Off in Portland
What started with just an idea to get women back in to bicycle racing with monthly bicycle racing clinics for women has turned into a dozen women screaming at top speeds at the Portland International Raceway in 2009 - a
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'Eye to Eye' Project to Promote Bicycle Safety in Oregon
More Cyclists Means A Need For More Awareness Now that more and more people are getting on their bikes due to high gas prices, summer weather and increased awareness of the environmental and social impacts of driving, there has also been a slight
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Geothermal Energy Tapped to Power Oregon Institute of Technology
Here's a "world's first" that's worth mentioning: the Oregon Institute of Technology will be the world's first university to be entirely powered from geothermal energy. The Klamath Falls school announced this week that it will be
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Three US West Coast Governors 'United In Opposition To Offshore Drilling'
The oil lobby easily sways the US Federal government. Congress is wet lacustrine clay in their lobbyist-stained hand. West Coast governors: not so malleable; and, more practical. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, joined with Democratic Govs.
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World's Largest Onshore Wind Farm (909 Megawatts) to be Built in Oregon
Recently, when I was lamenting all the ‘world’s biggest, best, baddest, shiniest’ PR in the renewable energy world, this next project is exactly the type of facility I was not talking about.
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Nau, Outdoor Eco Clothier, Lives to Ride Another Day
Yep, it seems like a phoenix, Nau will rise from the ashes. Six weeks ago the eco outdoor apparel company, that some had dubbed 'Patagonia-meets-Prada', closed its doors due to a venture capital drought. But today the company has
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END Outdoor: Greener Footwear for the Long Run
For the past month or so we've been in conversation with the newish start-up: END (Environmentally Neutral Design) Outdoor. The company will, as of August 2008, be selling a range of eco-aware athletic footwear for the outdoors. They say they'll be
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Obama Gets Out the Bike Vote in Portland, Helps Elect First Cyclist Mayor
Tongues were a-wagging this week in Portland over speculation that Barack Obama's primary appearance, whose 75,000-strong crowd drew over 8,000 cyclists, was also meant to serve as a tacit endorsement of mayoral candidate -- and erstwhile city
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Student Watt Watchers Save Tax Dollars, Environment
They may have to stand on tip-toe to read an electric meter, but when students on the Watt Watcher team at Hollydale Elementary in Oregon started leaving little red tickets in classrooms where the lights were left on or other energy wasting activities
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Deja Shoe Footwear: Ahead of Their Time?
Deja Shoe is the third and final in our mini series on companies that blazed the trail for dedicated eco-businesses, long before the arrival and departure of Nau. The previous two case studies were Terrapax and Esprit Ecollection.
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Business Unusual. Nau Close Doors, Then Releases Summer 08!
Barely a week after eco-clothier Nau saddened green hearts by announcing they were winding up, they have released what we assume was to have been their Summer 08 line. A collection of new pants, shorts, capris, and shirts. Along with some new brighter
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Wend Magazine: Paperless People-Powered Adventure
Our apologies to Ian Marshall of Wend magazine. Aeons ago Ian wrote to us telling us about the sustainable attributes of his mag. Unfortunately his correspondence went missing in the torrent of email we get. Better late than never.
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Doors Closing Nau: Iconic Eco-Business Winds Up
Today is a very sad day. For Nau announced they are winding up. The Portland, Oregon based outdoor lifestyle apparel company has been unable to secure the necessary venture capital to continue operations as a start-up business.
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The Recyclery: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Wheels
Great minds think alike ... Here we have two organisations, almost on different sides of a country, doing much the same thing, with the same name.
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Keen To Make Green Soxy (and Stand Out)
Earlier this month, Keen announced the winners of their STAND sustainability awareness contest. Prizes totaling $150,000 USD were awarded to three winners and fifteen runners up.
