Take the Downtown Gelato Challenge!
Others! ice cream café on Monument Square is teaming up with us at Portland Green Streets to offer the Downtown Gelato Challenge!
Hoping to inspire a bit of friendly competition, Others! will provide enough gelato for a company-wide gelato party to the downtown business or organization with the most participants in Green Streets Day – wow!
Interested participants should read the most current post on the Challenge for how to enter to win!
Any business, non-profit agency, or government organization in the Portland Downtown District is eligible to win the monthly Downtown Gelato Challenge. And Others! has agreed to keep the promotion going through at least the end of the year.
So pass the word to your co-workers!
And to help kick off the gelato incentive and make winning even easier, METRO, the South Portland Bus Service, the Shuttlebus, and the Zoom Express are offering Free Fare Fridays during July, including all routes and times on Green Streets Day, July 25th.
At Green Streets it’s been an inspiration to witness the growing support of the Greater Portland business community – and the different ways businesses and organizations join us in partnership. We were thrilled when Others! approached us about offering this new incentive.
“As a business that believes passionately in sustainable business practices, we’re totally excited to reward citizens who think and commute outside of the one worker/one car box,” said Others! founder, Brad McCurtain. “Like many other local businesses, we’ve tried to encourage green commuting by offering free coffee to participants. But, we felt the time might be ripe to raise the bar by raising the stakes. We hope other local businesses will join us with similar, substantial incentives of their own for Portland Green Street commuters who voluntarily help ease the congestion and lessen the carbon footprint.”
Others!, located on Monument Square, is the home of Portland’s first gelato, a low-fat, creamy type of ice cream. Very popular in Italy, gelato is now the fastest growing ice cream category in America. Others! also roasts and brews specialty coffees from around the world. All coffee and tea is Fair Trade and organic. The business recycles and composts much of its waste. Others! also contributes a meaningful percentage of its profits to non-profit organizations that are recommended by its customers.
Thank you Others! for supporting the Green Streets effort!
Gelato photos by Stu Spivack, Creative Commons