Tag: Portland - Page 3
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Portland is Building a 700-Foot Bridge for Pedestrians and Cyclists
Image: gibbsbridge.org The Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge The City of Portland is working to build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over I-5 to connect the historic Lair Hill neighborhood with the South Waterfront District. The bridge will span
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Would Bike-Only Boulevards Be All Bad?
While the debate rages on about whether New York's bike lanes are working right or hardly working at all, out here on the west coast in Bike City, U.S.A. (aka Portland, Oregon) there's a
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Awesome Recycled Skateboard iPhone Cases, Bike Fenders & Jewelry From MapleXO (Photos)
Photo: Founder of MapleXO Lindsay Jo Holmes with recycled skateboard iPhone case and earrings (above via Grove and MapleXO below) Recycling skateboards is nothing new, as skateboarder and designer Lindsay Jo Holmes will tell you. Holmes is the founder
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Portland's Bike Use Tops 7%; Are 'Neighborhood Greenways' The Answer?
I have an uneasy feeling about sharrows, those white chevrons that have been sprouting faster than crabgrass on Portland streets recently. Sharrows (and in Portland we even have "sharrow flowers" - four chevrons arrayed around the bike icon) seem like
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Free Bike Repair for Farmers (Video)
From a cell phone app empowering bike repair on the go, to community-based bike co-ops, we've seen plenty of initiatives aimed at enabling folks to fix their own bikes and take charge of their transportation in the process.
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Goats Are The New Emissions-Free Mowers
Smack dab in the middle of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the corner of SE 11th Avenue and Belmont, there's a small herd of goats that are doing what they do naturally - eating grass and weeds. The goat herd
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Cart-opia: Repurposed Trailers Fuel Portland Foodie (and Livability) Movements
They are known as 'pods' or 'clusters' - groups of small repurposed trailers and carts with wheels that have infiltrated every major neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Mexican carts serving
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When Neighbors Remove Fences and Start Gardens (Video)
From PassivHaus cohousing to the BedZED ecovillage, TreeHugger has covered a lot of different types of intentional community. Yet as was evidenced by my posts on the Findhorn ecovillage and the residential community at the
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Prettiest Travelling Bike Ever. But At What Price?
Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things. However the money-no-object aesthetic can be a turn-off. Thus I am a bit conflicted showing their International Bike. It is
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Cross Pollinating Ideas- NYC Hires New Sustainability Director from Portland
David Bragdon is headed to NYC photo: Daily Journal of Commerce Last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that David Bragdon will take over as NYC's new Director of the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability, the office responsible for the
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Eating, Biking, and Being Merry (Even Without A Bike)
Sometimes cyclists in
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Top 10 U.S. Cities For Green Job Seekers
Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are sprouting. Then,
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"November Days" Filmed By Bike, Distributed By Bike
"Field Guide to November Days" is a new film by Portland filmmakers Mary DeFreese and Nick Peterson that I really want to see. Not just because its two protagnists live a biking life (and the directors
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Want to Save a Tree? Buy a Wooden or Bamboo Bicycle
Photo via Renovo. At last count, Portland had 3 dozen small-scale bike frame builders - everything from Sasha White's beautiful Vanilla Bikes to Joseph Ahearne's sturdy and cheerful cycle trucks. The "buy local" mentality in Portland helps create a
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How Portland Mastered the Art of Transit-Oriented Development (Video)
Image: Fast Company Portland gets a lot of love from the green movement, and for good reason. By making use of a blend of transportation options (biking, aerial tram, pedestrian walkways, trolleys, etc) and cultivating an appealing aesthetic for each to
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Demolishing and Building a House with No Dumpster: The REX Project (Video)
Although we know that reuse should come before recycle, it's a sad truth that the reuse industry is often overlooked when people talk about green building. But one woman is out to change all that—literally
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Short Haul? Forget U-Haul - Leave the Hauling to This
This is my dining room table. This is my dining room table on a bike. This is my dining room table upside down on a special cargo trike available for rental at my neighoborhood bicycle store, Clever
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Giant Green Facade Part Of Green Rehab of Portland Office Building
Time to trot out that old Frank Lloyd Wright chestnut, "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." And that is what is happening at the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal
