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More Biodiesel Applications
Willamette Week is reporting (“Day Tripper“) that “Shared Route” is now operating a slightly hippy-looking biodiesel shuttle from Portland to Seattle. At the same time, the Daily Journal of Commerce reports that contractors are slowing slowly switching to biodiesel for their heavy equipment.
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Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: See + Be Seen
The KBOO Bike show will discuss the City of Portland’s new See + Be Seen program to promote cyclist visibility at night. The program will also feature some of the songs submitted to the KBOO Bike Show theme song contest. 9-10AM, Wednesday, December 6th KBOO FM 90.7 Streamed live at KBOO.fm Podcast here later that…
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Wonders of Walking
A brown bag presentation tomorrow and Wednesday Join Judy Heller and Experience “The Wonders of Walking” Judy Heller knows walking! As one of the region’s foremost experts on walking Heller has trained and motivated people from all walks of life to participate in events, relays, and even marathons. Heller was chosen as the national coach…
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Rubber Sidewalks Follow-up
I did make it out to Gresham last Tuesday to catch the presentation on Rubber Sidewalks. In the small world department, it turns out that the VP of the company giving the presentation is the brother of one of my fellow neighborhood activists in NW (which I didn’t discover until several days after the presentation).…
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Transportation on the Real Estate Page
The O doesn’t put their real estate section online, so I don’t have a link, but the cover of the section on Sunday was about people buying homes based on their access to transportation – alternative transportation. It included both homes on transit lines AND with bicycle access. Apparently the Springwater has become quite the…