Happy New Year from EcoShuttle!
Well, it’s a new year, and EcoShuttle has high hopes for 2008! As we’re still a young and budding company, we look forward to spending a lot of our time, energy and focus on the ECO Program. The first couple days of the new year are in itself proof that we’re not only making progress, […]
Let’s turn the focus to Trip Reduction
According to Commissioner Sam Adams and Portland’s transportation investment projects over the next 10 years, the cost of fixing and upgrading arterial streets is staggeringly above $243 million. Considering that figure is over 50% of all transportation investments, the taxpayers might wonder why so much? Mr. Adams best puts this as the ‘pay now or […]
Tell Congress to say “No” to huge subsidies for the liquid coal industry
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking the right step forward by urging you to take action by writing your legislators. The following is an excerpt from their site: As several energy bills make their way through Congress, the coal industry is pushing for huge subsidies and mandates to transform millions of tons of […]
Launch Event
I’d like to thank everyone for coming out to our launch event last night! It was a huge success and great job consuming all of the free wine provided by Cooper Mountain Vineyards and Oak Knoll Winery! Thank you to Friends of Trees for attending and we appreciate all the donations. We’ll be contacting you […]
To address The Oregonian’s Rush Hour Solution…
There were a couple articles this week on the front page of the Oregonian by Dylan Rivera that showed that you waste a week’s worth of work due to sitting in traffic, 38 hours to be exact. Now that study was in 2005, and if you’re driving in the same traffic I am at peak […]
Hood to Coast 2007, Team Fluffy Bunnies place 2nd!
As Hood to Coast has “gone green” this year, EcoShuttle thought it’d be quite opportunistic to sponsor a team. Although there is nothing green about thousands of vans constantly starting and stopping and in congestion for what can be for miles at any given exchange, we provided a carbon offset for one team: The Fluffy […]
The New Thing
The folks over at EcoShuttle are, indeed, the new thing. This is only the beginning of a new link between transportation and the earth friendly policies we must adopt to survive economically, socially, politically, and industrially.
Biofuel in Portland
I was biking past Jay’s Garage in SE Portland on Friday and saw a biodiesel tanker truck filling the tanks for the first time since the remodeled and upgraded tank system was completed. Since Jay’s is still one of the few fueling stations in Portland that sell B99 biodiesel, it was good to see that […]