Startup Weekend Portland Launches 9 Companies »

Startup Weekend Portland Launches 9 Companies

Former Oregonian Andrew Hyde started Startup Weekend in Boulder, Colorado in 2007. Little did he know then that his own startup business would soon...

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Living Green

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability »

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability

The American Center for Sustainability (ACS) will be hosting and benefiting from the Spring for Support Restaurant Rally on Saturday March 20, 2010. This event will raise funds for expanding the Annual Plant Project and further development of community programs led by ACS. Patrons and restaurant...

Mar 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Pacific Power Wants to Fund Your Green Ideas »

Pacific Power Wants to Fund Your Green Ideas

Got a bright idea for making Oregon, Washington or California greener? Could you use a little green to help make your project a reality? Beginning March 8, 2010, Pacific Power will accept applications for community-based renewable energy project funding from its Blue Sky renewable energy...

Mar 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Metro Selects New Operator for Central Solid Waste Station, Plans to Double Recycling Efforts »

Metro Selects New Operator for Central Solid Waste Station, Plans to Double Recycling Efforts

For the first time since it opened in 1990, operations at the Metro Central solid waste transfer station are changing hands. Metro and Recology Oregon Recovery Inc. have signed an estimated $38 million, seven-year contract that will signal considerable changes for the northwest Portland facility that takes in trash...

Feb 26 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Portland Offering Rebates to Plant a Tree »

Portland Offering Rebates to Plant a Tree

From PortlandOnline.com (via Urban Pacific Real Estate): Trees are vital, long-term, low-cost components of Portland’s green stormwater infrastructure. Trees absorb rain and prevent erosion to protect watershed health. Every tree planted in Portland is a step toward a cleaner Willamette River, so plant trees! To encourage Portlanders...

Feb 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund Dies at 60 »

Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund Dies at 60from www.ost.state.or.us: In life, there are those who take the road less followed. Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund’s was miles past where the pavement ends. His path...

Mar 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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In Today’s Portland Economy Budget Like Mom

In Today’s Portland Economy Budget Like Mom

Budgeting is truly the turf of most mothers. Aside from the traditional role imposed on mothers as the one who budgets the family finances, mothers have the instincts and foresights on what might...

Nov 30, 2009 / More »

Health

Gresham Medical Office Administering Free H1N1 Vaccines

Gresham Medical Office Administering Free H1N1 Vaccines

If you have put off getting the H1N1 vaccine to ward off the swine flu, and you live near Gresham, you are in luck. UrgentCare NW is giving the H1N1 vaccine for free...

Feb 24, 2010 / More »

Entertainment

Portland Saturday Market Kicks off 2010 Season

Portland Saturday Market Kicks off 2010 Season

Portland’s world famous Saturday Market kicks off the new season this Saturday, March 6th. The market is located under and around the west landing of the Burnside bridge and runs 10am-5pm on Saturday...

Mar 5, 2010 / More »

Events

Oregon Women Veterans Conference 2010

Oregon Women Veterans Conference 2010

The 2010 Oregon Women Veterans Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, at Seven Feathers Resort and Casino in Canyonville. This free two-day event is packed with educational workshops on issues that...

Mar 1, 2010 / More »

Food & Wine

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability

Restaurant Rally to Support The American Center for Sustainability

The American Center for Sustainability (ACS) will be hosting and benefiting from the Spring for Support Restaurant Rally on Saturday March 20, 2010. This event will raise funds for expanding the Annual Plant Project...

Mar 10, 2010 / More »

Home & Garden

Electricity Safety Tips for Around the House

Electricity Safety Tips for Around the House

Electricity plays an important role in each of our lives. It lights homes, runs businesses and makes many daily tasks easier. However, if safety rules are not followed, the power of electricity also...

Mar 8, 2010 / More »

Style

Artists Becca Bernstein and Gwenn Seemel in a blind collaboration

Artists Becca Bernstein and Gwenn Seemel in a blind collaboration

In portraiture, the relationship between artist and subject changes everything. In Subjective, everything is relative. Portland artists Becca Bernstein and Gwenn Seemel have joined in a blind collaboration to show how portraiture is...

Dec 14, 2009 / More »

Editorials

City of Bend: You’re Doing it Wrong

City of Bend: You’re Doing it Wrong

Being a Portlander, one of my favorite places to get out of town to for a few days is Bend, Oregon. It is part ski town, part hippster scence and party retirement area....

Mar 10, 2010 / More »
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