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Author profile: Erin Greeson

Erin Greeson
Erin Greeson is a longtime bike commuter and advocate for a sustainable transportation economy and culture.

Greeson currently works at MarketShift Strategies and has volunteered professional services toward vital community causes such as the 2007 We are ALL Traffic rally and the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities Conference.

Passionate about low-carbon living, she supports those who take creative steps to improve personal, communal and environmental health by rethinking energy and its impact.


Here are the other 5 articles by Erin Greeson:

  • In record heat, a trail angel saves the day (July 30, 2009)

    The hot, eerily empty Springwater Trail yesterday.(Photos by Erin Greeson)

    Today, while commuting home midday to finish my work from an air-conditioned office, a great thing happened. Just when I thought I’d prepared smartly for the 100-degree ride — dousing my head in cold water beforehand and chugging water all morning long — my lack of [...]

  • Guest Article: In memory of teammate and friend, Steve Nelson (April 17, 2009)

    [This article was written by Erin Greeson. You might remember her in-depth examination of the bike messenger industry.]

    "Century" Steve Nelson (1960 ~ 2009)

    On the evening of Tuesday, April 14, Team Beer lost a beloved teammate, "Century" Steve Nelson after a battle with illness and a stream of hospital visits from friends and teammates.
    Steve succumbed [...]

  • Don't kill the messengers: Inside the health of the industry (Part Three) (January 29, 2009)

    More on this series:- Read Part One
    - Read Part Two- Author Bio
    [Note from Publisher: Welcome to the final installment of our three-part series on bike messengers in Portland. This series is written by BikePortland contributing writer Erin Greeson (bio).
    In Part One, Greeson laid out the tough working conditions faced by Portland's messengers. [...]

  • Don’t kill the messengers: Inside the health of the industry (Part Two) (January 28, 2009)

    More on this series:

    Read Part One
    Author Bio

    [Welcome to Part Two of our three-part series on bike messengers in Portland.
    This series is written by BikePortland contributing writer Erin Greeson (bio). In Part One, Greeson laid out the tough working conditions faced by Portland's messengers. In the article below, she shares finding health care coverage [...]

  • Don't kill the messengers: Inside the health of the industry (January 27, 2009)

    Erin Greeson

    [Publisher's note: This is the first in a three-part story on Portland's bike messengers by new contributor Erin Greeson.
    When her friend Zak Kovalcik crashed and broke his collarbone last fall, Greeson came face-to-face with the tough reality faced by Portland's bike delivery professionals. In this in-depth, three-part series, Greeson shares how the deck [...]


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