MAKE SOME WAVES AND PUSH SOME PEDALS ON JUNE 21ST Paddle and Peddle to Support Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration’s Animal Rescue Efforts MYSTIC, CT – The Fifth annual Animal Rescue Kayak (ARK) paddle and peddle will be held at Bluff Point State Park, Groton, CT on June 21st from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00
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A ‘dream team’ gets the job done Congratulations and hooray to Rolling Agenda for positioning the Town of Jamestown to receive a $250,000 Federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) grant. The grant, passed through the State of Rhode Island, has several goals: promote safe walking and bike riding for our school children; increase the number
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I was driving home (I know, gasp…) the other evening and as I was heading East over the Washington Bridge, I could see a kid riding a bike going West over the bridge! Obviously, this kid put himself in an extremely dangerous situation, but I found myself wondering why he was doing this… Was he
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On June 7th and 8th, the Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living (apeiron.org) is holding its annual Rhode Island Sustainable Living Festival & Clean Energy Expo. And the Providence Bicycle Coalition is helping Apeiron to offer a way to get to the event via sustainable, muscle-powered transportation! For both days of the festival, a “bike train”
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There has been a ghost bike locked up outside of the Providence Art Club on Thomas St (between Benefit and N Main) since earlier this spring. It memorializes Amanda Lynn Benge, who passed away on February 2, 2008 after a bicycle accident on January 18. To my knowledge, this is currently Providence’s only ghost bike.
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N.Y. Hopes to Ensure Smooth Pedaling for Bike Commuters By Robin Shulman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 25, 2008; A02 NEW YORK — The view from the lens of photographer Mark Weiss’s camera is of a treacherous world of cab drivers weaving into bike lanes, of double-parked delivery vehicles, of car doors opening suddenly,
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Thanks to Dick, we have a bunch of B2WD photos online now! If you took some pictures at B2WD and want them posted, let us know.
1. AGRICULTURE: Change your menu and save the planet? (05/22/2008) Sara Goodman, ClimateWire reporter Climate change means different things to different people. To Tim LaSalle, chief executive of the Rodale Institute, it has brought opportunity: the acceleration of a trend his group has been pushing for years. He wants to make people more aware of
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We are happy to announce that we’ve added a a media gallery to our site. This will let us post interesting pictures featuring the cycling culture in and around Providence. For our first picture, I’ve uploaded a picture of a bike rack I saw while traveling in MN. There are a couple interesting racks I’ll
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RIPTA/Commuter Resource and the Hub bike shop, would to congratulate Brian Haseltine on winning the raffle (Jamis Commuter1bike) on bike to work day. Brian bikes to work regularly to his job at Fidelity Investments in Smithfield. Commuter Resource had 17 cyclists commit to bike 52 days a year to work, making them eliglbe for a
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