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Friday Faves: A New Team Member, Love Marriage + Fighting To Save Our Wild Salmon

Friday Faves: A New Team Member, Love Marriage + Fighting To Save Our Wild Salmon

Meet Mr. Woodrow Huckleberry aka Woody (above). We adopted this little guy last weekend. He’s been through a pretty epic journey. He came to Portland, Ore. from a shelter in California where he was nearing the end of the line. He’d been transferred to the Oregon Humane Society from California through the OHS Second Chance program. For only being 4-months-old — that’s a lot of...

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Friday Faves: Hot Norwegian Skiers, Gun Control, and a Ukelele

Friday Faves: Hot Norwegian Skiers, Gun Control, and a Ukelele

www.thesnaz.com This is Liz here, chiming in from Under Solen HQ in Portland, OR. Obviously, my fave from this week is that I got to spend the past five days drinking coffee and dodging rain drops with two of my favorite ladies. Not only was it awesome to be here and do some great work, but we managed to have a little fun too. In between intense new media strategy sessions, we managed to stumble...

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Friday Faves: Determination, Dams, and Damsels

Friday Faves: Determination, Dams, and Damsels

Welcome to another Friday/vendredi/fredag/viernes/whatever you want to call it… Here in Portland we’re experiencing some amazingly sunny and warm weather, so we’re going to attempt to spend as much time away from the computer this weekend as possible! But before we get to that, here’s a recap of all of our favorite things from this week. We love working with cool people....

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Friday Faves: Why We Like The Olympics + Taking Some Time To Chill

Friday Faves: Why We Like The Olympics + Taking Some Time To Chill

Tonight, we at Under Solen will join an estimated 1.4 billion people in tuning in to watch the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. While the Olympics often get a bad rap because of the media circus surrounding them and the city-wide disruption and massive public expenditure for the country hosting the games, the ideals behind them are good — and still alive and kicking. Perhaps these are most...

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Friday Faves: Outdoor Retailer Madness!

Friday Faves: Outdoor Retailer Madness!

In the midst of Outdoor Retailer Winter Market craziness, we found a couple of minutes to upload some photos and write a quick little Friday Faves! So what are we digging out here in SLC? 1. Kicked off the morning at the Conservation Alliance breakfast. Inspired by all the great things this awesome organization has taken on in the last year. Here’s just one of the slides from this...

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Friday Faves: Protecting Wild Places and Helping Haiti

Friday Faves: Protecting Wild Places and Helping Haiti

James Balog of the Extreme Ice Survey will speak next Friday at The Conservation Alliance's breakfast in Salt Lake City. The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. This week at Under Solen, we’ve been gearing up for next week’s Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City. While all of our heads will be...

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