Read this Blog about Plate and Pitchfork
Hello everyone! I’d like to bring to your attention a neat concept. It’s called Plate and Pitchfork (http://www.plateandpitchfork.com/dinners.aspx). Plate and Pitchfork invites you to a farm, gives you some wine and an appetizer, and then a guided tour of the farm. Upon returning from the tour, world-class chefs prepare 4, sometimes 5-course meals for […]
Pickathon, Sharks, etc.
I was just checking out the lineup for Pickathon, and I must say I am impressed! The annual indie roots music festival will be entering its 13th year when it takes place August 5th through the 7th in Happy Valley, Oregon. As you may or may not know, ecoShuttle is a sponsor of Pickathon, […]
Memorial Day is Coming!
Greetings blog readers! I hope this week finds you well. Now, folks keep asking me about what’s going down on Memorial Day, so I’m going to lay out some great activities going on this weekend. First off, we have the Rose Festival Fireworks taking place Friday night at 10pm to kick off […]
The Bed Has Been Raised!
Hey gang! Last week saw us raise the bed! The crew got together in the rain and occasional sunshine to build a raised garden bed. There was plenty of fertilizer to be shoveled, oh yes. It turned out really well. We all had fun and learned new things. The folks for whom we built […]
Summer-y bike blog
Greetings blog readers, On behalf of ecoShuttle and GrowingGardens I would like to say thank you to all those who came out to our event on Sunday. I hope you all had a good time, I know I did! I also got my first sunburn of the year and probably gained 5 pounds.
Garden to your heart’s content
How’s it going blog readers? Things are going well here at ecoShuttle, we are definitely staying busy getting ready for our big GrowingGardens Fundraiser (www.growing-gardens.org/) this Sunday at our headquarters, 2420 NE Columbia Blvd, here in P-town. Our goal is to help get people in low income families up and gardening so they can […]
The Good News Blog!
By: Mark Klosterman Hello everyone! As you have probably noticed, it is easy to be a negative Nancy when writing about environmental issues and climate change, but people are making great efforts to correct this, and it is okay to write about that too. Hopefully I can make this a recurring blog theme that […]
Dawn of the Bed
Hello everyone, I hope this blog finds everyone doing well. I know that everyone here at ecoShuttle is very excited as we are planning our first shindig, Dawn of the Bed, at our new location! Dawn of the Bed is an effort to promote our participation in Portland’s Growing Gardens program; we are having a […]
Hydrothermal Energy
Hey gang! Welcome back to the blog. I recently came across some exciting ideas for renewable energy in the form of hydrothermal vents. So now you’re probably thinking, “Mark, I don’t know what that form of energy is, but it sounds pretty cool.” Well, it is cool (well, it’s actually really hot), let’s dive […]
Better Living? You bet!
Hello blog readers! I hope that any of you who made it to the Better Living Show this weekend had a great time. On behalf of all the ecoShuttle family that was there, I have to say we had a great time commiserating with everyone, and checking out new green products and innovations. […]