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Jeremy Towsey-French

Street of Dreams

The quest to rename a Portland City street to Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard has rumbled on for two years –testing the City’s collective patience. What was once a somewhat well-honed, targeted effort to rename Interstate Avenue after the late workers’ rights advocate, has turned into an attempt to rename the street-of-least-resistance –whatever street that may [...]

Low-Car Lifestyle Clinic @ Portland Farmers Market

by Jeremy Towsey-French

The recent shift to sunnier skies has many Portlanders dreaming of cruising down stumptown’s tree-lined boulevards on a bike. For many, these visions might also be accompanied by questions about how to best take advantage of a bicycle to meet the needs of everyday life –like a simple trip to the grocery store, or a [...]

05.11.2009 See the rest → 0 comments

Strollin’ for Art

by Jeremy Towsey-French

This Saturday, May 9, the annual Laurelhurst Art Walk kicks off at 10 a.m., running through 5 p.m. The Art Walk provides an opportunity to walk, bike or ride your llama down the lovely tree-lined streets of Portland’s historic Laurelhurst neighborhood and gawk without the fear of being labeled a voyeur.
The concept behind the Art [...]

05.05.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Reminder: Low-Car Diet Clinic Tomorrow!

by Jeremy Towsey-French

The Low-Car Diet Clinic is taking place tomorrow –Saturday, May 2, 2009– rain or shine!

Location: Sunnyside School park / SE 34th Ave. and SE Taylor St., Portland
Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Details: see the specifics at Upcoming. Don’t forget that Joe Bike will have plenty of cool cargo bikes (and cargo!) on-hand to test –not [...]

05.01.2009 See the rest → 0 comments

Hollywood Farmers Market Premiers

by Jeremy Towsey-French

Spring has certainly sprung. The city is in full bloom, with endless rows of cherry trees coming into their own in a cycle of pure brilliance; as one tree gracefully halts, the next begins its surge.
For many in stumptown, springtime in Portland is marked by the start of the Portland Farmers Market. For those of [...]

05.01.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Livin’ the Low-Car Diet

by Jeremy Towsey-French

As the sun begins to creep over the mountains and spill down into our otherwise gray Pacific Northwest lives, many folks are dusting off their bicycles in hopes of enjoying another of Portland’s fantastic summers –via two wheels.
If the human-powered call of the road has you thinking about sun-drenched weekend cruises down stumptown’s tree-lined boulevards, [...]

04.27.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Grease on Earth

by Jeremy Towsey-French

For those of us who may not make regular trips to the Metro recycling station, it may come as a mild surprise that individuals can recycle their used cooking oil at several locations throughout the Portland metropolitan area and beyond.
Encore Oils, a subsidiary of Sequential Biofuel, collects waste oil from these locations, transporting it to [...]

04.16.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Props to the `Ville

by Jeremy Towsey-French

Living among giants and facing the effects of one of the nation’s worst economic depressions, Oregon’s Burgerville restaurants are forging ahead without fear. Always paddling against the current in the fast food burger market, Burgerville’s 39 restaurants continue to press the notion of how good fast food can taste, and how sustainable and community-focused their [...]

04.14.2009 See the rest → 7 comments

Freddy’s = Fresh and Green

by Jeremy Towsey-French

Back in January 2008, Fred Meyer issued an announcement that its 120,000 square foot Hawthorne market would be the first of the company’s 127 stores to apply for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification under the LEED for Retail pilot program, set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USBC). The store began the [...]

04.07.2009 See the rest → 6 comments

Got Milk?

by Jeremy Towsey-French

This post was extracted from the article titled, Milk for the Masses, originally published January 21, 2009 at http://www.towseyfrench.com.
Back in the summer of 2005 we moved to a new home in NE Portland. Almost immediately after moving in I took note of a unique weekly visit to our neighbor’s home by a lanky, gray-haired man [...]

01.22.2009 See the rest → 8 comments

Bakery Bar Part Deux

by Jeremy Towsey-French

Kerns and Laurelhurst residents rejoice, you’ve just been handed a tasty new neighbor. The cake masters at Bakery Bar have expanded their tiny, delicious empire beyond their busy Water St. birthplace, opening a new bakery and cafe at 2935 NE Glisan St., between 29th & 30th Ave., just half a block from Pambiche.
Bakery Bar’s cakes definitely [...]

01.15.2009 See the rest → 3 comments

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