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The Daily Environmentalist
The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices is just as valuable today as ever. The value of this book lies in its deceptive simplicity. The authors somehow manage to clearly provide the necessary insight to help anyone get a grasp on their environmental impact, and then make a simple plan for effectively reducing said impact…
Low-Car Lifestyle Clinic @ Portland Farmers Market
The recent shift to sunnier skies has many Portlanders dreaming of cruising down stumptown’s tree-lined boulevards on a bike. For many, these visions might also be accompanied by questions about how to best take advantage of a bicycle to meet the needs of everyday life –like a simple trip to the grocery store, or a [...]
Hollywood Farmers Market Premiers
Spring has certainly sprung. The city is in full bloom, with endless rows of cherry trees coming into their own in a cycle of pure brilliance; as one tree gracefully halts, the next begins its surge. For many in stumptown, springtime in Portland is marked by the start of the Portland Farmers Market. For those [...]
Livin’ the Low-Car Diet
As the sun begins to creep over the mountains and spill down into our otherwise gray Pacific Northwest lives, many folks are dusting off their bicycles in hopes of enjoying another of Portland’s fantastic summers –via two wheels. If the human-powered call of the road has you thinking about sun-drenched weekend cruises down stumptown’s tree-lined [...]
Grease on Earth
For those of us who may not make regular trips to the Metro recycling station, it may come as a mild surprise that individuals can recycle their used cooking oil at several locations throughout the Portland metropolitan area and beyond. Encore Oils, a subsidiary of Sequential Biofuel, collects waste oil from these locations, transporting it [...]
Props to the `Ville
Living among giants and facing the effects of one of the nation’s worst economic depressions, Oregon’s Burgerville restaurants are forging ahead without fear. Always paddling against the current in the fast food burger market, Burgerville’s 39 restaurants continue to press the notion of how good fast food can taste, and how sustainable and community-focused their [...]
Freddy’s = Fresh and Green
Back in January 2008, Fred Meyer issued an announcement that its 120,000 square foot Hawthorne market would be the first of the company’s 127 stores to apply for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification under the LEED for Retail pilot program, set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USBC). The store began the [...]
Got Milk?
This post was extracted from the article titled, Milk for the Masses, originally published January 21, 2009 at http://www.towseyfrench.com.
Back in the summer of 2005 we moved to a new home in NE Portland. Almost immediately after moving in I took note of a unique weekly visit to our neighbor’s home by a lanky, gray-haired man [...]
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