About the Tour: On the Third Thursday of every month, our 25 passenger ecoShuttle departs Roots Organic Brewing on SE 7th and Hawthorne, destined for three of Portland’s breweries. A $25 ticket gets you a seat on the beer-bus, samples at every brewery, growlers full of beer to enjoy along the way, and a look into what makes Portland so unique in the brewing world.
We have an exciting new partnership with Whitebird Uncaged! White Bird Uncaged is the new name of the White Bird/PSU Dance Series.
ecoShuttle will provide shuttle service to and from the Jackson Turnaround at PSU, to and from three White Bird Uncaged Venues: Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, the Portland Opera Studio Theater at the Hampton Opera Center, and Oaks Park Amusement Park. ecoShuttle will charge patrons $5 per person for round trip reservations. Reservations can be made by signing up below!
Portland Open Studios invites you to visit 98 individual artists’ studios throughout the Portland metro area. You will see a diverse group of artists working in their chosen media—painting, sculpting, blowing glass and much more.
Hello! This is William and I just got back from three intense days of touring wineries within the Willamette Valley and Dundee Hills. What a treat! The grapes are coming on strong, the wine tastes great (from what I hear…driving :*( ), and the views are incredible. Wineries love nothing more than a 100% biodiesel powered vehicle to roll up on their land. It is the respect that we here at ecoShuttle have for our environment. Heck, some of the wineries like us so much that they are willing to throw in a free tour for our guests!
I am proud to announce that we have added two new shuttles to our fleet! Our first is a brand new 2008 11 passenger Sprinter which travels in such comfort that we constantly have requests for this specific vehicle. Second, we have a 17 passenger bus which is ADA compliant!
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That’s right folks. By popular demand, we have added a 25-passenger this past month. It rocks and it rolls! Just fresh off an eco-friendly oil change, a new IPOD-enabled PA radio, and charcoal carpeted walls, 100% waste product, of which 90% chicken fat fuels this beast. It is a mean green chicken fat machine as one parent of Arbor School stated.
The summer is filling up fast with services for the mini-bus, so hurry up and book your next event! Some examples of upcoming services include corporate events, weddings, wine tours, and Oregon Tradeswomen field trips. (more…)
I just wanted to personally thank Lee Williams and Katie Hartley for riding along with me during Eddie Creech’s party! Not to mention they wrote an excellent article on us: Powered on fry grease, ready to roll.
I’ve had a good reaction from friends and business associates alike who have told me that the article hints that our company is a pioneer for transportation in the NW. I like how Lee mentions the other green transport companies out there. It’s good to have a comparison of competitors, and hybrids still have the same issue with the fluctuating costs of gasoline, and oh yeah, the fact that they are fossil-fuel derived. Sure, the mpgs are greater , but our fry grease is cleaner burning, biodegradable and renewable.
Well, it’s a new year, and EcoShuttle has high hopes for 2008! As we’re still a young and budding company, we look forward to spending a lot of our time, energy and focus on the ECO Program. The first couple days of the new year are in itself proof that we’re not only making progress, but we’re ready to enhance the landscape of commuting within Portland and surrounding areas, and this can be a viable program for most companies.
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According to Commissioner Sam Adams and Portland’s transportation investment projects over the next 10 years, the cost of fixing and upgrading arterial streets is staggeringly above $243 million. Considering that figure is over 50% of all transportation investments, the taxpayers might wonder why so much?
Mr. Adams best puts this as the ‘pay now or pay more later’ dilemma, and I agree…to some extent.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking the right step forward by urging you to take action by writing your legislators. The following is an excerpt from their site:
As several energy bills make their way through Congress, the coal industry is pushing for huge subsidies and mandates to transform millions of tons of coal into transportation fuels. The process to make this “liquid coal” is an expensive, inefficient one that produces large amounts of global warming pollution and precludes it from being a sound option to reduce America’s dependence on oil.
Relying on liquid coal as an alternative to oil could nearly double global warming pollution per gallon of transportation fuel. (more…)
I’d like to thank everyone for coming out to our launch event last night! It was a huge success and great job consuming all of the free wine provided by Cooper Mountain Vineyards and Oak Knoll Winery! Thank you to Friends of Trees for attending and we appreciate all the donations. We’ll be contacting you if you were the winner of either the Blazers tickets or the seats on the EcoShuttle for a wine tour. I hope you had as much fun as I did, we’ll see you at the next great event!
About the Tour: On the Third Thursday of every month, our 25 passenger ecoShuttle departs Roots Organic Brewing on SE 7th and Hawthorne, destined for three of Portland’s breweries. A $25 ticket gets you a seat on the beer-bus, samples at every brewery, growlers full of beer to enjoy along the way, and a look into what makes Portland so unique in the brewing world.