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Back On The Bike

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · community, global warming and climate change, sustainability, transportation

I’m sipping coffee at Seven Virtues* Coffeehouse on NE Glisan and 60th here in Portland, Oregon. Neil Young’s plaintive song Sugar Mountain is playing on the sound system. I suspect he’s referring to how I drink my coffee. I’m Seven Virtues’  first customer,  having bicycled briskly over in the sharply slanted light of early morning. [...]

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Best And Worst of Alice B. Toeclips

March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle, transportation

Do you want to visit or live in one of the best bicycling cities in the United States? I’ll bet you do. Then you’d be visiting or living in Portland, Oregon, where I am and where the nonprofit organization Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has its headquarters. I went to its annual awards and fundraising dinner, [...]

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