Job: Environmental Policy Director – Commissioner Adams

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Job Title: City of Portland Environmental Policy Director/Liaison to the Bureau of Environmental Services for Commissioner Sam Adams

Qualified applicants will have experience with environmental policy, familiarity with Commissioner Adams and the Bureau of Environmental Services, and a demonstrated ability to build working relationships with and between citizens, interest groups, and businesses from all perspectives. If you are excited about the opportunity to work hard to help make Portland an economically and environmentally sustainable city, please submit a one-page cover letter, resume, three references, and a maximum five-page writing sample to:

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Stolen Univega mountain bike

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womens univega mountain bike, dark navy blue. has an downward angled womens crotch bar, letters saying univega are white outlined in red. there used to be a sticker on the handle bars, where it used to be is sticker residue/peel.

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Ahearne will display diversity at builder’s show

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[This is the third in a series of four interviews with local bike builders who are exhibiting at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show next weekend (March 2-4) in San Jose, California. Read previous interviews with Ira Ryan and Tony Pereira.]

In the shop with Joseph Ahearne

[Joseph Ahearne in his shop.]

Joseph Ahearne of Ahearne Cycles has come a long way since his first trip to the Handmade Bicycle Show.

Back in 2005, without his own booth, he walked around the show with just a few parts strapped to his back.

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Powerful misconceptions still drive the dialogue

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Like any minority, as we work to move bicycles from an “alternative” mode of travel to a more widely used and mainstream transportation choice, we will be forced to defend deeply entrenched misconceptions and negative stereotypes.

Even in Portland, America’s most bike-friendly city, many folks still lump anyone who uses a bicycle into one big group of Critical Mass-loving, rampant law-breaking fanatics.

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