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The Seeing Green Manifesto

Seeing Green is part lifestyle, part ethos, but mostly it is about having fun while living consciously and sustainably. Here are a few tips to help you start Seeing Green.
* Paper or plastic? Neither. Bring your own bag. While you’re at it, bring your own travel mug for coffee and skip […]

The Pita Pit

When I was a younger, there was one fast food restaurant that my health conscious parents would take my sister and me - Eat-A-Pita of Long Island, New York. There I could order anything off the menu, my favorite being the whole-wheat pita pizza or the cream cheese and cucumber pita sandwich. So when […]

Food Fight

If you consider yourself a “vegan,” and don’t follow that statement with “but I eat eggs and fish,” then you are in luck. Portland is home to the mothership of vegan outposts, Food Fight, a compact grocery store hidden in the base of a retro office building on the less traveled half of SE […]

Coffee Plant

It can be surprisingly hard to find a good cup of coffee in this town, especially if you don’t want to support the shall-remain-nameless empires of the world. However, if you happen to be downtown and want to skip the chains and the convenience stores that offer “expresso,” head over to Coffee Plant, a […]