How green is your bike?
3 September 2009
Posted by bill
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By Richard Monfries : 01-Sep-2009
“The bike you ride should be a durable, repairable, functional machine with a minimal ecological footprint. And it must give you value for money. A ‘green bike’ does all those things.”
Read the full story featuring Human Powered Cycles and some other switched on shops and suppliers in Melbourne at Australian Cyclist
A small correction to the article…
Richard wrote “Human Powered actively engages in the surrounding community, particularly the local asylum-seeker resource centre, with free bikes for recently arrived asylum seekers.”
We’re not actually working with any asylum seekers at the moment for a few reasons (we’re still dealing with extremely rapid growth, a lack of space and resources and other reasons).
This doesn’t mean we’re not active in the local community. We’ve been involved in a range of on-site free bike fix events (festivals, school fetes, etc); we support local groups with donations for raffles, trivia nights (kindergartens, schools, community groups); and we work with various groups providing bike ed to diverse background learner groups.