Job Title
Transportation Options SmartTrips Bicycle Delivery Staffers
Company/Organization
City of Portland Transportation Options – Website
Month: March 2008
Bicycles and the Governor’s climate change report
“The State can invest directly… in building pedestrian or bicycle facilities in areas that are underserved.”
–From a report released by the Governor’s Climate Change Integration Group. (Download full report below.)
An advisory group of climate change experts convened by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski has just released a far-reaching report titled, A Framework for Addressing Rapid Climate Change.
The 115 page report was authored by the Governor’s Climate Change Integration Group which was created in May 2006 to, “develop a climate change strategy for Oregon that provides long-term sustainability for the environment, protect public health, consider social equity, create economic opportunity, and expand public awareness”.
“De Ronde” returns, even tougher than last year
A Google Earth view of the Tour of West Portland route. The ride follows a 45-mile route over the region’s steepest hills and is said to be “horribly hard.”.
Shift noted in new book on “The rise of the bicycle in American public life”
Shift gets noticed in new book.
Read full excerpt below.
Read full excerpt below.
In his new book, Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life, DePaul University political science professor J. Harry Wray devotes three-and-a-half pages to local bike fun activist group, Shift.
In a chapter titled, Pushing the Envelope: Populist Politics, Shift is noted for working, “on the cultural side of bike consciousness.” To illustrate his point, Wray writes about several Shift-inspired events and phenomenon including Pedalpalooza, Move by Bike, Midnight Mystery Rides, Breakfast on the Bridges (which has recently expanded to Salem), and more.
Spend the morning with Sam Adams
A still from Sam Adams: Man on the Go.
(Watch it below).
(Watch it below).
If you haven’t seen Commissioner Sam Adams’ mayoral campaign video, you should.
I’m not one to regurgitate political propaganda, but I think this video/campaign ad is worth a few minutes of your time (you can watch it below). It’s a great mix of documentary-style filmmaking (I know you’ve been wanting to see Sam shave) and footage of a politician in action.