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Well, Portland does it again. It's now the first city to have three tool libraries. A tool library, for those who are new to the idea, is exactly...
Portland is already proud of its copious parks and open green spaces, and now it's moving the vegetation into the city in a big way, according to...
Charles Lewis admits that pretty much everyone in his Master's program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government advised him not to start a...
We are entering the prime season for public park recreation: Across the nation, people are oiling their Frisbees and tightening up their cornhole...
Some creative person or group has painted Mario Kart items—mushrooms, stars, and the like—along a bike path on North Williams Avenue in Portland,...
The Portland Cello Project turns Kanye West's All of the Lights into a sweeping classical anthem.
Our new event series pairing creative teams with urban challenges kicks off in Portland, Oregon on February 16.
The electric heat is on. The left coast's two most prominent bastions of progressive culture are caught in a race to build the nation's first...
Portland, Oregon-the misty evergreen Shangri-La for the young, the creative, and the progressive-has an interesting problem. Its miles of bike...
In "Portland Fall," Jedrzej Jonasz of Postcard Films sends a visual love letter to Oregon's favorite city.
Five awesome Portland businesses get the tools they need from social entrepreneurs.
Our event series hits the road in 2012. Here's how creatives in Portland and St. Louis can apply to present solutions for local problems.
This is part 11 of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Sam Adams...
By making public transportation data public, Portland, Oregon's TriMet system has fostered an explosion of useful information.
After a series of bike-auto accidents, including several deaths, the city of Portland, Oregon, took action, installing 14 green bike boxes at city...
What's the dumbest (and costliest) overreaction to one man peeing in public? Just go ahead and waste 8 million gallons of water.
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