Until recently, if you wanted to buy an earthfriendly car, you had to go down to Salem, or, to a conventional car dealer. But now we have an "earth-friendly new and pre-owned vehicles" dealer conveniently located in inner NE Portland. They have priuses, natch, and what appears to be the full line of Zap scooters and cars, as well as Myers Motors' NMG. Yes, they have an electric scooter. Dude!

I haven't driven any of these vehicles, or been there yet, or done business with them, but I'm very glad they're here.

I learned about this via Divebarwife at Metroblogging Portland

Oh, and the Daily Journal of Commerce writes about it too

Marjorie Skinner has an excellent listing of small independent shops here in Portland in today's Mercury. These shops sell fashion: mens and womens wear, vintage, jewelry & accessories, bridal wear (go, Elizabeth Dye, go!), activewear, swimwear, housewears, baby goods, and shoes.

Some of these shops offer custom clothing; some feature their own in-house line of clothing; some primarily one of a kinds, but most feature the local and independent, which, Darling, there is lots of.

Sadly, she didn't mention my favorite shoe store in the world, Amenity Shoes (3430 NE 41st at Fremont, [503] 282-4555), but hey, I did...