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Category Archives: Empowerment Through Mobility

Siege of Sarajevo Through a Bicycle Lens

November 12, 2014by emcc126 Leave a comment

Context: I spent a (too short) three days in the enchanting and devastating city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 2014. This is what I learned: Background: To visit Sarajevo […]

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Disaster Relief, Empowerment Through Mobility, Uncategorized

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

Rwanda’s ‘Rising From Ashes’

April 4, 2014by emcc126 Leave a comment

“You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.” — Rwandan Proverb Such is the opening quote for the bicycle film, Rising From […]

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Empowerment Through Mobility
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Afghan Women Cycle (TedX & Film)

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Ways in which the bicycle can be a useful ice breaker and a vehicle for social justice. That’s what this incredible woman, Shannon Galpin, talks about in her TedX talk […]

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Empowerment Through Mobility, Video, Women's Empowerment

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

Scrapertown Bicycles

November 3, 2013by emcc126 Leave a comment

The duo of California is a Place recently made a really schnazzy bicycles keeping kids out of trouble in Oakland, California "In order to become a member of the Original […]

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Advocacy, Community, Empowerment Through Mobility, Recreation / Adventure, Video

Pedal Forward’s Bamboo Bikes

October 29, 2013by emcc126 Leave a comment

“We’re not claiming to have invented the wheel, so to speak. We’re simply attaching two of them to a bamboo frame and making a quality bike that won’t break your […]

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Advocacy, Bamboo, Business Spotlight, Empowerment Through Mobility, Social Entrepreneurship, Video

Seattle’s Books on Bikes

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I came across this story during a solo, self-supported bicycle tour around the country in mid-summer 2013 (it’s how I moved to San Francisco). I also made a short video about that trip. With […]

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Community, Creativity, Education, Video

A Bamboo Bicycle Craze

December 30, 2012by emcc126 Leave a comment

I keep coming across stories about bamboo bicycles. When I first heard about them in January 2012), I didn’t really understand how bicycles made out of bamboo could make much sense. […]

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Bamboo, Empowerment Through Mobility, Social Entrepreneurship

FILM HIGHLIGHT: With My Own Two Wheels

October 27, 2012by emcc126 Leave a comment

Watch and download the documentary here. “Look for solutions, not problems” –Dan Eldon This is the opening quote in the 42-minute documentary, With My Own Two Wheels. The filmmakers traveled to […]

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Community, Education, Empowerment Through Mobility, Health Care, Video, Women's Empowerment

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