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 a piece in The New York Times. Working under the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, a $133 million renovation of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt... 
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 non-profit on a credit card. But his passion for music education outweighed practical advice and today, 5,000 Portland, Oregon-area students are benefiting from his risk taking.
Lewis founded Ethos... 
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 what it sounds like: A central place that has a bunch of tools—power drills and post-hole diggers and industrial vacuums and the like—available for members to borrow for free.
The... 
Leave No Plastic Behind seems to have successfully transformed the art of quilting from grandma's favorite pastime to a funky environmental statement. From Treehugger:
The National Plastic Quilt Project started as a call to artists, school children and working people to make a square for a quilt as well as making a commitment... 
Meet Rick Potestio: Portland architect and loudmouth. He's apparently a veritable celebrity in his hometown—he's been called one of the design community's most engaging thinkers—and given some of his ideas about city planning and design, the rest of us might want to get to know him, too.
A lifelong biker and an advocate for... 
After a series of bike-auto accidents, including several deaths, the city of Portland, Oregon, took action, installing 14 green bike boxes at city intersections to raise driver awareness of cyclists on the road and to ease some of the hostility. The question is, do boxes actually make any real difference? The short answer, according to research... 
In Oregon, radical antisprawl laws aim to save the state’s bucolic paradises. But with land-hungry suburbs on the prowl, can these goats be saved?
On a Wednesday morning in harvest season, Lyn Jacobs chases a rebellious goat through the barn. The beast has escaped its pen on Jacob’s two-acre farm outside Portland, Oregon, in... 
Portland vs. San Francisco
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast’s left-most city. To stoke the competition, the blog Gas2.0 has launched a website to track each city’s progress toward building an infrastructure for electric cars. We asked the mayors of... 
