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The Bike2PSU Challenge is on

April 30, 2013 - 2:14pm — Laura Gleim
Spring has sprung—and the Bike2PSU Challenge is on. Grab a bike, sign up to ride, and begin logging your trips for a chance to win a new bike.

Wells Fargo teams with PSU on cleantech challege

April 8, 2013 - 3:51pm — Christina Williams
Portland State University and Wells Fargo are teaming up to present a new competition for students and faculty with innovative ideas about how to improve the way we operate in a resource-constrained environment.

A tour of Portland’s greenest: coffee, basketball, beer

February 8, 2013 - 10:20am — Fletcher Beaudoin
Coffee. Basketball. Beer. Portland has a lot of great things to offer, but these are three of our best. Mix in a ride on the Streetcar, and you have yourself a true Portland experience. As part of the Oregon Higher Education Conference last week, I led a group of students and staff from three different Oregon universities on a tour featuring three of Portland’s greenest local businesses. And, of course, we did it all by public transit.

Confessions of a novice biker

July 26, 2012 - 2:10pm — Laura Gleim
I’ll be the first to admit that bike commuting can be intimidating—with crazy car traffic, steep hills, rain, stoplights, flat tires, and neon spandex bike shorts, I was certainly a little intimidated.

Taking the car out of carbon

April 12, 2012 - 12:55pm — Jenny DuVander
If mass transit can get credit for the greenhouse gas emissions it saves, it could revolutionize the way we fund public transportation, according to the sustainability chief for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who visited Portland State Thursday.