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Microcosm Publishing Pairs Do-It-Yourself Aesthetic with Do-It-Together Ethic
Jennifer Boyer | September 16, 2011
For the folks out there who relish the tactile and fret over the replacement of books with an electronic facsimile: listen up.
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Supportland: The Whimsical, Powerful, Local Business Initiative
Jennifer Boyer | February 1, 2011
Is there a simple solution to encourage customers away from the Big Box retailers and into the bricks-and-mortar local owned businesses?
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The Ethereal Community of Food Bloggers
Chelsea Batten | January 24, 2011
If you read food blogs, you might not be surprised (as I was) by how charmingly written some of them are. It seems a great many misbegotten writers have found a way to revive their talent by cataloguing what they ate for dinner. And, between the recipes, many of them make interesting notes on culture, politics, and science--all food-related, naturally. No matter how pithy the blog post, it always centers around a toothsome image of the dish in question, contours caressed by delicate mood lighting.
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Streamline Dwellings Simply Makes Portland Homes More Efficient
Jennifer Boyer | December 1, 2010
In our quest to mitigate damage to the planet, we often turn to sleek, shiny emblems of technology such as solar panels, hybrid cars and wind turbines.
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Cafe Velo Offers Up Bike-centric, Community Conscious Fare
Jennifer Boyer | August 17, 2010
Cafe Velo does not aim to create more consumers, they wish to create more enthusiasts. From a 180 square foot micro-cafe in the heart of downtown Portland, complete with a walk-up take-out window, Cafe Velo crafts up perfect cups of single origin coffees, pastries and lunch fare.
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Livingscape Nursery Engages Life Indoors and Out
Jennifer Boyer | July 7, 2010
On a street corner of North Vancouver Avenue in Portland, OR, inhabiting a stately barn-red home, lies Livingscape Nursery. One step through the gate and you are greeted with an abundance of youthful vegetable starts promising, with proper tender loving care, a personal bounty. Inside the perfectly creaky screen door Kava, the resident greeter dog, lifts her head in acknowledgement while continuing to rest underneath a rotating stand of seed packets.
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Then and Nau: Rebirth of Sustainable Retailing
Kate Bryant | January 19, 2010
After being resurrected from its ashes, Nau hesitated to make the same mistakes again—letting ambition take the reigns before the brand had legs enough to stand on. But opening up a one-month pop-up shop in New York City's Soho neighborhood proved a great way to test the market and expose local clientele to the brand without the risk of long-term investment.