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Portland's time zone is Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

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Flickr
[|Oregon State University Archives] [|Portland Streetcar] [|oregon]

Flickr Groups
[|Portland Oregon] pdx (portland) Portland Classical Chinese Garden [|Oregon Wildflowers] [|Oregon Waterfalls] [|Oregon Adventurist] Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC)

Tourism Portals
[|GoSeePortland.com]

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Portland is 75 minutes from the coast with the largest urban forest in the USA.

Portland saw a 400 percent increase in bike lanes and bike parking over 20 years, built for the same cost of a one-lane freeway

Wiki
Oregon Oregon Ecotourism Urban

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Portland State University Educational Leadership and Policy] http://www.sustainableportland.org [|Green Guide to Portland - Matador] [|Portland - City Compare] [|Portland Walking Map - Powells] (PDF) [|Travel Portland] http://www.pdx.edu/gogreen http://www.pdxgreendrinks.org Last Thursday http://www.wifipdx.com/map http://www.portlandneighborhood.com http://www.atomic-arts.org/

Bikes
http://bikeportland.org http://www.pedalbiketours.com http://www.portlandcycling.net [|Cirque du Cycling] [|More Biking Lessons from Portland]

Charity
http://www.wweek.com/portland/giveguide

Food
[|Voodoo Doughnut,] Multiple locations including 22 Southwest 3rd Avenue - 'the magic is in the hole' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Doughnut http://twitter.com/voodoodoughnut Voodoo Doughnut

[|Stumptown Coffee] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumptown_Coffee_Roasters Food Carts

http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2016/10/alto_bajo_portland_restaurant.html

Markets
http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org

The [|Portland Saturday Market] is located in Waterfront Park and Ankeny Plaza in historic Old Town. http://twitter.com/PDXSatMkt

Museums
http://freemuseumday.org/pdx.html Portland Children’s Museum

[|Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center], 721 NW 9th Avenue - After a century of service as a warehouse for the goods of the industrial economy, the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center has been revitalized by Ecotrust as a marketplace that fosters the ideas, goods, and services of a conservation economy. The Center includes outdoor seating, a public atrium, a resource center, and an outdoor terrace with fireplace. All floors incorporate display areas for exhibits and shared information. [|Directions and map]

Sports
[|Portland Rugby Football Club (PRFC)] was established in 1961 and is a non profit organization residing in Portland, Oregon. PRFC is a member of USA Rugby and all four of its teams compete within the Pacific Northwest Rugby Football Union (Oregon, Washington, and Idaho).

Facebook
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Trip Advisor
[|Portland]

Twitter
Travel Portland (@travelportland) - Questions? Use #inpdx in your tweet Urban Farm Store (@urbanfarmstore) Pearl District Neighborhood Association (@Pearl_District) Forest Park Conservancy (@PDXForestPark) Mayor Sam Adams (@MayorSamAdams) Portland Art Museum (@PDXArtMuseum) Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (@OMSI) Portland Food Carts (@PDXFoodCarts) Portland Eats (@PDXeats) - Use #pdxeats tag or @pdxeats when you post about Portland Food. Portland Walking Tours (@PortlandWalks) PDX Green Drinks (@PDXgreendrinks) Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University (@SustainablePDX) PDX Pipeline (@PDXpipeline) ReBuilding Center (@ReBuildingCtr) Willamette River Keeper (@WilRiverkeeper) Voodoo Doughnut (@voodoodoughnut) https://twitter.com/sugarwheelworks https://twitter.com/TodayPortland

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/PortlandStateU

Wikipedia
[|Oregon] [|Willamette Valley] [|Fremont Bridge]

News
http://wweek.com http://portlandtribune.com

Birds
http://audubonportland.org/issues/endangered-species/peregrine-falcon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon

Portland is home to Mill Ends Park, the smallest park in the world. Only two feet across it is located downtown in the middle of a crosswalk on Front Avenue at Taylor Street. Conversely, the city is also home to Forest Park, nearly 5,000 acres in size and the largest urban park in the USA.
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The [|Oregon Historical Society] is located at 1200 SW Park Avenue, between Madison and Jefferson Streets in downtown Portland. The museum readily accessible by public transportation. The Pioneer Square MAX station is only four blocks north of the Historical Society. Most Tri-Met buses stop at the Transit Mall downtown along SW 5th or 6th streets, just two or three blocks away. The Portland Streetcar stops at SW 11th and Jefferson (Northbound) or SW 10th at the Portland Art Museum, two blocks east of the Oregon Historical Society.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry http://www.omsi.edu http://twitter.com/omsi

Portland Hotels
Hilton, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon, United States 97204 http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/PDXPHHH-Hilton-Portland-Executive-Tower-Oregon/index.do http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g52024-d96157-Reviews-Hilton_Portland_Executive_Tower-Portland_Oregon.html Nearby foodcarts: Honkin' Huge Burritos, Fuego Burritos, No Fish/Go Fish, Philly CheeseSteaks

[|6th and Salmon Starbucks] [|Portland Hotels - Trip Advisor] [|Heathman Hotel]

Transportation
Airport Portland International Airport is located on the south side of the Columbia River twelve miles by highway northeast of downtown Portland. Ahilirport code, PDX. http://www.portofportland.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport Foursquare: **[|Portland International Airport (PDX)] **

[|TriMet's MAX Light Rail System] connects Portland, Gresham, Beaverton, Hillsboro and the Portland Airport. Trains run every 5-15 minutes roughly between 4:30am and midnight. MAX Light Rail uses only electricity, and even supplies some of its own power through braking (like hybrid cars). With MAX factored in, TriMet is more than 10 times as fuel-efficient per passenger as the average car. Experience a big part of why Portland is consider one of the country's most sustainable cities. You can catch MAX at 64 stations throughout the metro area. Trains run on three lines every 5-15 minutes every day roughly between 4:30 a.m. and midnight :

[|Portland is a hub for car-free and carefree travel - USA Today]

Universities
[|Portland State University] is Oregon's largest university.

Nearby
Located on the outskirts of Portland, [|Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge] is one of only a handful of urban national wildlife refuges in the country.

At 11,239 feet Mount Hood is the tallest peak in Oregon. Mount Hood is a dormant volcano

Portland - Las Vegas
[|Fare Compare] - 132,545 seats are available per day to fly out of Portland, OR connecting to Las Vegas, NV

Recent Events
September 10-12, 2010 - Muddy Boot Organic Festival

September 8-11, 2010 - Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference (ESTC) Location: 45.5117912292 N, -122.6756286621 W Twitter List of ESTC 2010 speakers, partners and participants (@ecotravel/estc2010) ESTC group on Facebook ESTC group on LinkedIn

April 24, 2010 - EAT MOBILE Portland's Food Cart Festival

Portlandia
http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series)

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