If you live in Portland, chances are you’ve at least seen a B-line delivery trike equipped with a big, snappy yellow cargo box perched behind its rider. These pedal-powered wonders began zipping through the streets of PDX in February 2009, partnering with local businesses to take over their “close-in” delivery needs. Since then, B-line has […]
On the heels of news this week about Oregon's higher-than-average hunger rate, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery formally launched its B-share program in an effort to get more of the city's edible food into the hands of charities and out of landfills. The program, in development for the last three months, taps B-Line's already out-and-about cargo […]
Laurelhurst Whole Foods and B-Line: Sustainable Urban Delivery are teaming up to reduce the environmental impact of their holiday turkeys. Order a fresh free-range turkey from Laurelhurst Whole Foods before Jan. 1, and it will travel the mile from B-Line's warehouse to the store in a specially fitted cargo bike. Read the rest...
For many Americans, November begins a string of waistline-expanding holidays that make America's waste problem (about 25% of our prepared food ends up in the garbage) seem even more pronounced. So we were happy to learn that one Oregon company is keeping edibles out of the landfill and promoting healthy, green transportation at the same […]
Oregon has been ranked among the hungriest states by the USDA for years. It's not that the state doesn't grow enough food, though. The problem is transportation. Food kitchens and nonprofits often don't have the resources to collect surplus bread and vegetables from local grocers, restaurants, and farmers' markets. Read the rest....
Oregon has been ranked among the hungriest states by the USDA for years. It's not that the state doesn't grow enough food, though. The problem is transportation. Food kitchens and nonprofits often don't have the resources to collect surplus bread and vegetables from local grocers, restaurants, and farmers' markets. Read the rest...
The Whole Foods Market on East Burnside Street announced Monday that it will partner with B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery to deliver Thanksgiving turkeys by pedal while supporting B-Line's efforts to get surplus food into the hands of food-assistance nonprofit agencies. In past years, Whole Foods Market Laurelhurst ordered its turkeys and stored them in a […]
The Whole Foods Market on East Burnside Street announced Monday that it will partner with B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery to deliver Thanksgiving turkeys by pedal while supporting B-Line's efforts to get surplus food into the hands of food-assistance nonprofit agencies. In past years, Whole Foods Market Laurelhurst ordered its turkeys and stored them in a […]
B-Line is featured as a Next Generation Award winner by Ken Boddie of KOIN Local 6
Two local companies have teamed up to reduce their carbon footprint while helping customers look their best. B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery uses adult tricycles to make deliveries for more than a dozen companies throughout downtown Portland. Last week, Beaverton-based Eco Dry Cleaner partnered up with B-Line to have the delivery service handle the majority of […]
