Portland Transport

Category: Sustainability

  • Carbon Tax Discussion at Blue Oregon

    Leslie Carlson has an interesting post about carbon taxes over at Blue Oregon. Please read and comment there.

  • America Leads

    This month’s issue of the Sierra Club magazine has an article on our energy future. It looks at 3 scenarios for energy usage in the U.S.: Business as Usual, Best Current Practices and “America Leads”, an intensive effort on conservation and renewable sources: AMERICA LEADS In the third scenario, our country embraces not only today’s…

  • Virgin Carbon

    Rex passed along this link to a piece by Richard Branson about Virgin’s efforts to reduce their carbon output.

  • Business Journal Poll on Sustainability

    This week’s Business Journal Poll asks whether sustainability is good for Oregon’s economy. Vote your convictions!

  • SMART Car Seen in Wild in Portland

    The Sunday O had an article about the trials and travails of trying to import the European SMART Car into the U.S (part 2 from Monday). But meanwhile, reader Miles Hochstein has documented one here already! Can anyone tell us the story of how he got it here?