Thanksgiving Weekend Wine Tasting
Happy Fall Season blog readers! I don’t know about you, but I’m already excited about tearing into a massive Thanksgiving Day feast! But lo and behold, there is much more to Thanksgiving Day than just eating and watching football (at least for some of us). If you are trying to change things up this coming […]
Sustainable Wine Tasting This Thanksgiving
Hey Everyone! If you’re wondering what to do this Thanksgiving, you ought to consider checking out some sustainable wine tasting options at Sokol Blosser (http://sokolblosser.com/) and Willamette Valley Vineyards (http://wvv.com/), our good friends in wine country!
Standing Room Only?
Hey Gang! Mark is back on the blog this week. Fiona did a great job last week with her account of picking up garbage from the Willamette River, thanks Fiona! One part of my job involves mapping things out on Google maps. Like most people, I prefer the hybrid map that shows street names […]
What’s Trending in Trashion?
What’s Trending in Trashion? Hey Gang! This week I’d like to focus some attention on an interesting effort to reuse junk and make it into fashionable clothing, otherwise known as “Junk to Funk” (http://junktofunk.org/index.php). Junk to Funk is part visual/performance art, part fashion, part sustainability education, and part entertainment.
Waterfront Blues Fest
This year’s Waterfront Blues Festival will mark ecoShuttle’s 5th year sponsoring the event (http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com/). The company is sponsoring headliner Maceo Parker (http://maceoparker.com/), which means someone from the company will get to introduce his set! Maceo started out playing with James Brown, and then he played with George Clinton’s Mothership. After that collaboration, he teamed […]
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.
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. […]
Two Paths Emerge, Take the Green Path!
Traveling responsibly is not only popular among Oregonians; it’s also the right thing to do. Now ecoShuttle is making it even easier for travelers coming into, and out of Portland. So now you’re wondering, “Mark, how can ecoShuttle make it any easier than they already have for us to get in, out, or around […]
Tackling Climate Change Begins with US
Over the last 20 years, the west coast has cultivated an image of itself as a vigilant steward of the environment and has some of the most progressive environmental state legislation in the country to back it up. Anyone living in Portland is well aware of how keen Portlanders are about making sure this planet […]