Tag: Portland - Page 4
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Green Box Biking and Safety: It's All in Our Heads
Portland, disputedly still American's premier cycling city, has been experimenting with 14 bike boxes - road markings that designate exactly where cyclists and motorists should place their vehicles when
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Green Roofs + Green Belts = Greenwash
Green roofs are such lovely things. Not only are they pretty and good for the environment, but they let architects do things that they would never have been able to do before, like build in parks and
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Before and After: 50s Ranch Eco-Renovation
Ranches and Bungalows from the fifties are all the rage these days among mid-century modern fans, but some are less interesting than others, and Matthew O. Daby has done a pretty spectacular conversion of a pretty boring
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Portland Fashion Week Spring 2010: Janeane Marie, Paloma Soledad, and IDOM (Video) - Part 2
West coast eco-fashionistas and green fashion enthusiasts unite -- it's Portland Fashion Week! Earlier today we brought you runway looks from
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Portland Fashion Week Spring 2010: Suzabelle and Sweet Skins (Video) - Part 1
Suzabelle (left, middle) and Sweet Skins (right) at Portland Fashion Week Spring 2010. Credit: Ed Kavishe / Fashion Wire Press Portland Fashion Week (PFW) is the place to be for west coast eco-fashionistas. Thanks to PFW videos, we're highlighting
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Sierra Nevada Comes Through For Wild Rivers
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., which produces a most excellent Pale Ale that's currently in my fridge (but not for too long), has helped to raise $73,342 for Western Rivers Conservancy from the beer maker's 2009 "Wild Rivers" campaign. Sierra Nevada
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Portland State Creates Independent Bicycle Track
Portland,OR has done a lot to promote biking, protect cyclists and just plain give them the right of way when it comes to street traffic. Now Portland State University is getting in on the action by creating what looks
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Creating Green Commuters from Scratch in Portland
One of the things bike and transit advocates always struggle with is how to get people out of their cars -- how to convince
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City Repair: What Happens When Neighbors Paint Intersections (Video)
In one way or another, TreeHugger has covered the idea of 'place making' hundreds of times before. From Brooklyn kids painting the pavement to Dutch towns abolishing traffic lights to San Francisco turning intersections into
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Drive-Thru Discrimination: Bicycles Are Vehicles, Too
It's not the first time, nor likely the last, but when Sarah Gilbert was refused service at the drive-thru counter of a
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WTF? Vandals Destroy Portland Community Gardens
From OregonLive:
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The Sage House is Almost Off the LEED Scale
We don't as many single family houses as we used to; location and scale have to be considered as well. So it is a joy to show Arbor South Architecture, PCs Sage House, designed for USGBC founder David
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Meet the Freegans: Excellent Dumpster Diving Documentary (Video)
Image credit: Shields Films Freeganism and Dumpster Diving always awakens a good debate here at TreeHugger. Usually there are some folks who find it disgusting, and perhaps counterproductive for the image of the environmental movements, meanwhile others
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12 Hip Green Hostels in North America
Why stay in a hotel when you can mingle with like-minded travelers in an eco-friendly environment? From city centers to the great outdoors, we pick a dozen of the best places in North America for backpackers to lay their heads in sustainable style.
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Bad-Sport Boulder Tells Naked Cyclists to Keep Their Clothes On
The World Naked Bike Ride has spread to 100 cities and will happen rain or shine in the Northern Hemisphere starting today, in cities ranging from Drumheller in Alberta to Zaragoza, Spain. What's startling about seeing photos from WNBR rides is that
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Pedaling Revolution: Could There Be Such Thing As a Best-Selling Bicycle Book?
Bike books are generally shunted to the back of the books stores, relegated to the sports shelves or dying a slow death in the 'transportation' section. But political reporter Jeff Mapes of The Oregonian is enjoying unexpected popularity with his first
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When American Cities Desire A Domestic Streetcar: United Streetcar, LLC Is Ready
For most of a century, 'Government Motors' (a.k.a. "GM") focused on street cars of the free-roaming, gasoline powered sort, to the exclusion of the
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Affordable Electric Cars - Why is Europe Getting All the Goodies?
The EVs (electric vehicles) are coming! But not exactly to U.S. drivers. On any day in the streets of London, you might spot an electric Daimler Smartcar, a G-Whiz, or one of the Electric Car
