What’s an example of a community relationship that has helped Sisters? B-line Sustainable Urban Delivery is a local company that makes deliveries by bike mostly in inner Southeast (Portland) and downtown. They deliver food to Whole Foods (in the Pearl…
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By Catherine Covington Here at RSF, we are always thrilled to hear about for-profit and non-profit enterprises taking innovative actions to catalyze social and environmental change. During this year’s Seed Fund grantee selection process, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery quickly caught the attention…
KPTV: A New Use for Tricycles in Portland
With its restaurant-style dining and $1.25 meals, Sisters of the Road Cafe has long been the homiest nonprofit grub spot for downtown Portland’s hungry. Now, thanks to a recent partnership with B-Line: Sustainable Urban Delivery and Whole Foods Market, the…
The B-Line delivery service in Portland isn’t your typical bike messenger service, which is fitting in bike-crazy Portland. Some might say it’s even a little… weird. This is no high-speed messenger service with hipster riders whipping through traffic on single-speed…
Elected leaders in the Portland area like to try to save the world through grand, sweeping gestures. In recent years, they have promised to switch every municipal office to wind power, force gas stations that sell diesel to offer bio-diesel…
KXL Radio’s Barbara Voight interviews Franklin Jones on B-Line’s partnership with the City of Portland and Office Depot. Listen: B-Line 1 B-Line 2
Joel Grover worked at the Bike Gallery in Portland for more than 20 years before he decided to set up Splendid Cycles on his own in May, selling nothing but cargo bikes. Limiting your shop to extra-long bicycles built to…
Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is planning something that, at first glance, is unbelievable. He wants to ban semi trucks from the city. The plan is to establish depots at the outskirts of London where goods could be transferred…
ROBERTO CASANUEVA and I are loitering outside Whole Foods in the Pearl District, spending the morning doing the most “Portland” task imaginable: loading up his bike with 150 pounds of organic food to deliver to homeless shelters. But it’s not…