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Do you VIV?

by Samantha Tackeff on August 11th, 2009

We make the biggest environmental decisions each day by choosing where we spend our dollars. What if the stores that we shop at every day had added incentive to go green? Enter VIV.

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Posted in Shopping+Services 3 Comments

Organic Soup + Bicycle Delivery = SoupCycle

by Derek Markham on March 28th, 2009

Two enterprising Portlanders are fueling their passion for organic food, local agriculture, and bicycles with a soup-er business: SoupCycle. Jed and Shauna, self-proclaimed Soupetarians, delivery fresh, homemade soup, bread, and salad direct to homes and offices by bicycle. It’s almost enough to make me want to move to Portland…

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Posted in Cars+Tranportation, Food+Drink 4 Comments

The Buzzzznesss of Bees

by John Platt on September 29th, 2008

By now, you’ve probably heard about the horror of colony collapse disorder. Bees around the world are disappearing, dying off, dropping like flies, and no one knows 100% why. But what we do know is that where the bees go, so goes most of our food.

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