Archive › February, 2009

Alice Award Nominee: Melanie Plies

By growing food on small urban plots and delivering it by bike (and heavy-duty trailer), Melanie Plies has taken nearly all the fossil fuels out of farming.


Alice Award Nominee: Porter Childs

Through Good Sport Promotion, Porter Childs has brought a new kind of bike ride to Portland, and a new kind of Portlander to bike riding.


Coming soon: Bike lanes on SE Holgate.

Since the beginning of November 2008 I have been working with Jeff Smith from the City of Portland’s Transportation Options office on a proposal to improve SE Holgate Boulevard between SE 92nd and SE 122nd by adding bike lanes to this excessively wide piece of southeast Portland traffic infrastructure.


One Year Ago Last Tuesday

Austin Miller, a Beaverton teen, lost his life in a collision with a TriMet bus.


A love note for River View Cemetery

Today I found a love note for River View Cemetery on my desk, written longhand by BTA member Florence Dezeix. River View Cemetery is one of … Read Full Post


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