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Category Archives: Advocacy

VIDEO: Bikes & Business

November 10, 2016by emcc126 Leave a comment
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Advocacy, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Video

VIDEO: Why Polk Street Needs Protected Bike Lanes

November 9, 2016by emcc126 Leave a comment
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Advocacy, Uncategorized, Urban Planning, Video

Kurdish Activism By Bicycle

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Open city streets and apartment buildings on-the-rise make up much of contemporary Diyarbakir. And the city’s outskirts are lined with dirt patches that marking future construction  project. Five years from now, the […]

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Advocacy, All Abilities, Community, Education, Empowerment Through Mobility, Sustainability, Urban Planning

Climate Change and Bicycle Travel

September 15, 2014by emcc126 Leave a comment

David Kroodsma, environmental consultant and data journalist and Stanford graduate, rode from Palo Alto, California to the southern tip of Chile and across the United States to raise public awareness about climate […]

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Advocacy, Recreation / Adventure, Sustainability

San Francisco’s Vision Zero

January 21, 2014by emcc126 Leave a comment

It concerns me how many people are scared to ride a bicycle. And for fair reason- we’re considered ‘vulnerable road users’ in large part because death and injuries are too […]

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Advocacy, Policy

Bikes and Buses in Bogotá

January 16, 2014by emcc126 2 Comments

Bogota, Colombia keeps coming up in my cycling research when it comes to sustainable urban development. It seems a lot of people are and have been concerned about the extreme […]

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Advocacy, Policy, Uncategorized, Urban Planning

NGO Highlight: World Bicycle Relief

December 7, 2013by emcc126 Leave a comment

Check out this video made by World Bicycle Relief, my favorite organization that’s transforming individuals and communities through the power of bicycles.

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Advocacy, Disaster Relief, Education, Empowerment Through Mobility, Health Care, Markets, Social Entrepreneurship, Video

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