The Green Notes program at Clif Bar will release a compilation of all their artists July 1 on iTunes. Garett Brennan's song "Hotter Than a Hot Damn" will be featured alongside tunes from artists like Gomez, Guster, John Butler Trio, Brett Dennen, Martin Sexton, Xiavier Rudd and Hot Buttered Rum.


Here is a stream of the tune in case you'd like to check it out.
And a list of the players featured:
Tony Furtado - banjo, harmonies
Scott Law - mandolin
Sammy Lind - fiddle
Jon Neufeld - guitar
Will Amend - bass
Drew Shoals - drums
Jim Brunberg - harmonies
Garett Brennan - vocals, guitar, tambourine

You can check out the Green Notes Program at www.clifgreennotes.com

PORTLAND, Ore. - (April 20, 2007) Bridgeport Brewing is proud to support some of the country's finest acoustic and bluegrass musicians who call Portland, Oregon home.

A few months ago, Bridgeport approached Three Pin Records seeking contact information for the fabulous and fictitious Huckaman & The Haymakers: which includes Tony Furtado on banjo, Scott Law on mandolin, Jackstraw's Jon Neufeld and Jesse Withers on lead guitar and bass, Jim Brunberg on harmonies and Garett Brennan on vocals, guitar and harmonica.

We kindly told them that could be tough, especially finding Huckaman. He doesn't own a computer, he's notorious for loosing his cell phone chargers and he's recently taken up an affinity for studying animal husbandry.

Bridgeport heard rumor about their song "Huckaman's Ode to Portland" (an ode to the microbrew capital of the world) and wanted to offer the song as an exclusive download for beer lovers everywhere as a way to celebrate their new summer seasonal beer: Haymaker.

Huckaman & The Haymakers were tough to track down, but we eventually rounded them up, fed them beer, blackberries and bacon and cut the hot new single, "Huckaman's Ode to Portland" at Mississippi Studios.

Bridgeport's Haymaker Extra Pale Ale will be available in stores throughout Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Northern California, Washington and Oregon by Early May.

It is rumored that Huckaman will make an appearance to perform the song live at the Haymaker Launch Party on May 3rd at the Bridgeport Brewery in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District.

For more information and to download the song, please visit www.bridgeportbrew.com

Click below to read the December article in the Portland Tribune:

http://www.portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=116553765751360500

Green building - It's a party, and everyone's invited to help spread sustainability from one block in Portland to the world

By: Spencer Heinz of "The Oregonian"

David Griswold felt a twinge of concern. This was back in 2001, and he was scouting for space for his organic coffee-importing business inside a deeply ecological Portland building under construction at the time. The guide mentioned that the building wouldn't have full walls between many tenants.

"Kind of crazy," Griswold recalls thinking. He imagined chaos from immersion with drastically disparate companies, from bank to pizza shop to pharmacy. But the project manager persuaded him with thinking that went like this:

It will not be too loud. Builders will create low- or no-walled places -- working, meeting and dining nooks called "spontaneous interaction spaces." It will be egalitarian, with equal access to light. As such, employees of all kinds will bump into one another and plant fresh thoughts.

Five years later, Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvest specialty coffee importers, is a believer.

"It works," he says.

His experience is typical inside the Ecotrust Building, a three-story "green" structure at 721 N.W. Ninth Ave. On Saturday, Ecotrust will host a public fair -- the Salmon Nation Block Party -- inside and outside the building. The party will celebrate the building's fifth anniversary while calling attention to what's happening to local forests, waters and lands.

Formally known as Ecotrust's Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, the 1895 warehouse reopened five years ago this month as a bottom-to-top renovation with the latest environmental-building features and a profitable tenant mix of what managers describe as "the three pillars that create a community" -- nonprofits, private businesses and government combined with an environmental mission.

They say the idea is to help spread the idea of a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable ecosystem, throughout the city, nation and world.

To Ecotrust founder and President Spencer Beebe and his colleagues, Salmon Nation represents a concept and a place. The concept is of sharing the planet, the place is wherever salmon run. They see salmon runs as barometers of the health of humans, other creatures and the economy.

The symbolism starts in the lobby with a lectern-size log of century-old Douglas fir. It features a signup booklet for becoming a citizen of Salmon Nation with the pledge:

"I believe that where I live matters. I believe that there is enough for everyone. I recognize that we all live downstream of one another and are thus interconnected. I am a Citizen of Salmon Nation and I pledge to live here like I mean it!"

Building engineer Mike Wilson makes the morning rounds. He walks past tenant businesses such as Pearl Pharmacy, Patagonia, ShoreBank Pacific, World Cup Coffee. He mentions energy-saving fluorescent lighting, a computerized system that cools the building in summer by drawing in night-chilled air, and Hot Lips Pizza's process of capturing pizza-oven warmth to heat water.

Urban Works Real Estate principal Craig Sweitzer, the commercial real estate broker who helped situate some of Ecotrust's ground-floor tenants several years ago, says the Ecotrust building and renovated Brewery Blocks show that tenants will be attracted to old buildings with environmentally sound materials. The idea isn't lost on other developers, large and small, he says: "Kind of like a snowball effect."

The Ecotrust Building's materials include recycled paints, original doors reframed as partial dividers between offices, and parking lot plants and bioswales to help filter and guide rainwater into the city's storm water drains.
Emalee Assenberg, the building's gardener, stands on the rain-catching eco-roof and studies the parking lot below.

"If every urban parking lot looked like this, what a different America we'd have," she says. "What a different world we'd have."
Spencer Heinz: 503-221-8072; spencerheinz@news.oregonian.com

Link to article
www.theonion.com/content/node/38921

by Jeff Rosenberg


http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6959

Little Cottonwood - Garett Brennan (Three Pin) Local songwriter climbs mountain, takes advantage of energy bars for you.

[FOLK] Garett Brennan had two bright ideas for his new album, Little Cottonwood. One was to haul a bunch of microphones and digital recording gear 8,500 feet up a mountain outside Salt Lake City, to a little log cabin that would serve as his studio. The second was to get Clif Bar to underwrite the whole deal as a marketing tool, no doubt helping foot the bill to bring former Windham Hill producer Cookie Marenco up the mountain to helm the sessions.

"Been lazy too long," goes the album's first line, and the unhurried,
loping pace of most songs here suggests that's not changing anytime soon. Much like an archetypal ski bum, Brennan's songs flee from structure, full of asymmetrical verses and irregular line lengths, and avoiding rhyme like it's avian flu. Brennan's clearly following the speak-singing storytelling style of Greg Brown or Tom Waits, but so far, his voice lacks their gravelly gravitas.

One thing the album does a remarkable job of is reproducing the environment in which it was made. The digital recording captures not only the well-played acoustic instruments but the rushing river outside the cabin with astounding clarity, providing a calming continuity that flows through the album. Eventually, on "These Knees (Thunder)," the location itself takes the lead, as a thunderclap enters right on cue with the instrumental's first verse, and a hailstorm joins in as the second verse begins, proceeding to wail as if taking a solo. If you can't afford your own mountain cabin, this album will take you right there.

JEFF ROSENBERG.

PORTLAND, ORE. - Portland-based musician Garett Brennan´s new album "Little Cottonwood," will be nationally released, thanks in part to unique grassroots support from Berkeley-based Clif Bar. Although Clif Bar sponsors many athletes, Brennan is the first musician to receive sponsorship, thanks in part to his history as a telemark skier. The release of the album coincides with a ten-city national tour for Brennan as co-launch of a new product from Clif Bar: Clif Nectar –The Essence of Simple, a 100% organic fruit and nut bar. In line with Clif Bar´s corporate commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices, the production of Little Cottonwood is carbon neutral and builds on a nationwide trend of businesses and corporations enhancing brand awareness opportunities by sponsoring or offering music to their consumers.

Little Cottonwood features Brennan´s original folk songs. Shortly after being selected as first alternate at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour songwriting competition, Brennan cut the record this past June in a log cabin at 8500 ft, at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, where the small town of Alta, Utah sits. Brennan was raised at the base of the canyon where he and his four younger brothers grew up tele-skiing at Alta. The peacefulness and beauty of the area was an inspiration for the pace of the album and the approach of how to record it.

Cookie Marenco, of Blue Coast Records (formerly with Windham Hill), lent her expert ear and soft touch as producer of the album, choosing to record it entirely and completely acoustic. No headphones. No overdubs. Just a series of carefully placed microphones to capture the subtleties of Brennan´s voice, the guitars, the log structure, and the raging river just outside the cabin. Keep it simple. Rick Clark from Mix Magazine calls it "intimate artistry that trusts the power of the space between the notes as much as words and chords he chooses."

According to Brian Doyle, Northwest author, editor of Portland Magazine, and frequent contributor to Harper´s, Little Cottonwood is an "aural collection of short stories…a record that is somehow gracefully and substantively in and of and about and a hymn to and a cry for the American West, which is still wonderfully a place crammed with the geography of hope, as my boy Wallace Stegner said, and also, seems to me sometimes, on one of them shocking clear brilliantly lit redolent with cedar and sage days, the most possible planet for human beans to finally rise to their best and most delicious selves."

With this project, Clif Bar & Co. and founder Gary Erickson have blended two of their passions -- music and the environment -- to help Brennan and other musicians such as Dave Matthews combat global warming. Clif Bar's green music initiative is part of a companywide commitment to sustaining its business, brands, people, community and the planet. Based in Berkeley, Calif., Clif Bar & Co. is a leading maker of all-natural and
organic energy and nutrition foods committed to sustainability from the field to the final product.

"As a musician and an environmentalist, these partnerships were a natural for me," said Erickson, a jazz trumpeter and avid outdoorsman. "By teaming up with like-minded acts and festivals, we can talk with music lovers about global warming and other environmental issues. Plus, we can do it in a proactive way that´s informative without being preachy."

Little Cottonwood received climate neutral status through The Climate Trust's (a Portland area non-profit) high quality offset project portfolio, which includes renewables, forest sequestration, energy efficiency and transportation efficiency projects and programs. In addition, the CD sleeve is printed on 100% recycled paper using soy-based inks. As Clif Bar does with its Clif Nectar fruit and nut bar, a portion of the proceeds from the CD's sales will be donated to the Organic Farming Research Foundation based in Santa Cruz, CA through Three Pin Records´ 1% For The Planet business alliance.

Clif Bar´s support of Brennan and other musical acts is part of a larger, national trend. As music is increasingly digitized and democratized, the old structures for music production and promotion are crumbling, being replaced by new business models and a whole new roster of players. A growing number of brands that started out with no connection to music are rushing in to help build their brands.

Such large corporations as Wal-Mart, Yahoo!, McDonald´s and Sony are using music as a significant branding tool. Vans Shoes has hopped aboard, sponsoring the famed, hard-rock Warped Tour. Blimpie´s sub shops and other retailers are selling big fountain drinks with CDs by Alanis Morissette and others, simply attached to the lids. Meanwhile, Starbucks essentially has created its own music label.

Brennan was a perfect fit for Clif Bar. He is a down-to-earth Alta skier and musician, who´s day job is at the first green built hospital in the West. This unique partnership allows Clif and Brennan to tell their stories to the active, outdoor, music-loving crowd.

To date, the national tour includes Brennan performing with artists such as Peter Rowan, Sonny Landreth, Keith Greeninger, and Boston-area favorites Rachel McCartney and Anne Heaton. During the tour, Brennan will perform in Washington, D.C., Boston, Burlington, Boulder, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Alta, UT.


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Three Pin Records is now an official member of 1% For the Planet, donating 1% of record sales to the Organic Farming Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, CA

For more information, check out www.onepercentfortheplanet.org

BERKELEY, Calif., July 14, 2005 — When Gary Erickson founded Clif Bar & Co. (formerly Clif Bar Inc.), he created a workplace where he could combine a number of his interests. This summer, he's blending two of those passions, music and the environment, to help rock stars, festival promoters and music fans combat global warming.

Clif Bar & Co. has created special environmental partnerships with the Dave Matthews Band, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, indie band Cloud Cult and singer/songwriter Garett Brennan. The eco-friendly food maker is providing fans a way to offset the CO2 they create by driving cars to attend live shows. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and major cause of global warming. The company is also giving promoters and musicians ways to offset CO2 created by generating power for lights and equipment at live shows, as well as to run personal electronics while on tour. Finally, Clif Bar & Co. is giving Brennan a way to save trees and offset the energy used to produce a new CD.

"As a musician and an environmentalist, these partnerships were a natural for me," said Erickson, a jazz trumpeter and avid outdoorsman. "By teaming up with like-minded acts and festivals, we can talk with music lovers about global warming and other environmental issues. Plus, we can do it in a proactive way that´s informative without being preachy."

Clif Bar & Co.'s innovative partnerships present real solutions to the environmental impact of music performance, production and attendance. For example, its "Cool Tags" program enables rock fans to reduce the impact their concert travel has on global warming. Through a Clif Bar partnership with NativeEnergy, concertgoers can purchase wind energy credits to offset the amount of CO2 they generate driving to and from shows. For each $2 Cool Tag, a concert attendee can offset approximately 300 miles of car travel.

Clif Bar partnerships during the 2005 summer concert season include:

• Dave Matthews Band – Cool Tags will be offered at the Clif Bar booth during the July 30-31 shows at Randall's Island in New York City.


• Cloud Cult – For this Minneapolis indie-band´s ongoing 2005 summer tour, Clif Bar helped purchase enough wind energy and plant enough trees to offset the entire estimated amount of CO2 emissions created by the tour. In addition, Clif Bar & Co. helped purchase and install solar panels on the group´s tour van, which is powering band members´ mobile phones and computers as they cross the country.


• Garett Brennan – Clif Bar helped this Portland native's upcoming CD, Little Cottonwood, receive climate neutral status through The Climate Trust's high quality offset project portfolio which includes renewables, forest sequestration, energy efficiency and transportation efficiency projects and programs. In addition, the CD sleeve is made with recycled paper and the liner notes are printed using soy-based inks. As Clif Bar does with its Clif Nectar fruit and nut bar, a portion of the proceeds from the CD's sales will be donated to the Organic Farming Research Foundation through the 1% For The Planet business alliance.


• Bonnaroo – Through a partnership with NativeEnergy, Clif Bar purchased enough wind credits to offset the estimated 732 tons of CO2 generated in the production of this annual multi-day festival, which drew 80,000 fans in June to Manchester, Tenn. The Clif Bar team also was present in its biodiesel van to sell 750 Cool Tags, offsetting an estimated 116 tons of CO2—equivalent to 233,000 miles of auto travel—generated by concertgoers getting to and from the event.

Clif Bar & Co.'s green music initiative is part of a companywide commitment to sustaining its business, brands, people, community and the planet. Based in Berkeley, Calif., Clif Bar & Co. is a leading maker of all-natural and organic energy and nutrition foods committed to sustainability from the field to the final product. To learn more, visit http://www.clifbar.com.