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Wellstone Bike Club empowers East African women in Minneapolis through cycling
The air is brisk, but not exactly cold. The sky is infinite blue. I throw on my thin merino undershirt and think about sunglasses which I haven’t worn since I was a child due to the eternal presence of high-prescription eyeglasses. I’m heading down the oversized sidewalk known as the Hiawatha Avenue Trail to Roosevelt High School to meet the Wellstone Bike Club.MORE »
Cycles for Change: Changing names, changing lives in St. Paul
“Our mission is to empower and educate,” said Marianne Baum, bike library program associate for Cycles for Change formerly known as Sibley Bike Depot. “With a bike you can get from A to B depending only on yourself. I don’t have to wait for a bus, pay for a car, or be stuck in traffic. It is very empowering and good for the environment.”MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | A Peek Inside North Side Biking: The story of JB Hood
UPDATED 3/21/2012 (see below) — For 10 short months JB Hood Bikes, a small bike shop with big dreams, worked out of a garage on the south side of West Broadway, between Fremont and Emerson. JB Hood was a for-profit bike shop; a part of 29 Facets LLC, the corporation started by founder Jon Nygren to oversee what was to be the first of many “facets,” JB Hood bike shop. The shop bMORE »
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Angry Catfish celebrates 3rd anniversary with all-day bash
The Angry Catfish Bicycle and Coffee Bar at 4208 28th Ave. S. will celebrate its third anniversary from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 3.
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Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities - Digital Humanities 2.0 presentation by Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen will describe a number of well-known and successful "collective intelligence" systems that illustrate different ways to use computational power to enable large and distributed groups of people to work together in new and effective ways.
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Pedal for Peace Supports Unarmed Civilian Peacekeepers Around the World
Nonviolent Peaceforce creates Unarmed Civian Peacekeepers who apply proven nonviolent strategies to protect human rights, deter violence and help create safe spaces for local people to carry out their work. Peacekeepers are trained women and men from 25 countries who live in villages where there is serious violent conflict.MORE »
Pedal for Peace
Pedal for Peace invites you to join us on Saturday July 23 at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. We hope to raise $15,000+ to help provide satellite phones, motorcycles, and uniforms for Nonviolent Peaceforce’s unarmed civilian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka, Mindanao Philippines, and South Sudan.
Like Minneapolis, these lady bikers have got "it going on"
Shawn Postera pulled on a pair of stylish arm-warmers she'd sewn herself, hopped atop her beloved Surly Cross-Check and zoomed down the Midtown Greenway to show off her no-hands-needed riding skills. MORE »
Freewheel Midtown Bike Center
Freewheel Midtown Bike Center is a joint effort of Allina Health Systems and the City of Minneapolis to provide the Midtown and larger Twin Cities community a full service bike transportation station, complete with long/short term
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