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Composting begins in earnest at Portland Farmers Market at Portland State University
The market wants to retrain people to properly dispose of the bags, boxes, cups, forks, spoons and other packaging they collect as they sip espresso and eat their way past local farmers peddling freshly picked chard and radishes. All that garbage adds up. The PSU site generates roughly 13 tons of garbage over a season of Saturdays. And until now, very little of it was composted or recycled: just …

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Portland proper
You can enjoy a first-class visit to this city without the luxury price tag.

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Largest Physics Meeting of the Year Convenes This Month in Portland, Oregon, March 15-19
The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) — the largest physics meeting of the year — will take place from March 15-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Convention Center and the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel.

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Stumptown Coffee vs. Starbucks: Portland, Seattle Rivals
Coffee aficionados have been asking the question: Is Portland’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters the new Starbucks?

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Welcome to the 2010 Walk for Water, organized and sponsored by Portland Roasting Coffee. Our World Water Day fundraising event takes place around the shores of the Willamette River in downtown Portland, Ore., on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Last year’s event raised funds for the construction of two wells in Kenya near schools. Join us in our second annual event to help improve access to water for people in Africa. See more information at worldwaterdaypdx.com.