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School With Bikes Instead Of Desks Offers Better Way To Learn
The Read and Ride program at Ward began five years ago. One classroom is equipped with enough exercise bikes for a full class of...
BikeMobile Fixes More Than Kids’ Bikes in Low Income Neighborhoods (WATCH)
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Tommy Bensko went on the road to primarily in low-income neighborhoods, fixing kids’ bikes for free and giving them a hands-on education about...
Police Officers Give Their Saturday to Fixing Kids’ Bikes
Officers in north Tulsa distributed 350 flyers in schools encouraging kids to come get their bikes repaired for free. The Oklahoma cops held the...
US Teen Sends Bikes to India’s Poor Children
Thomas Hircock first visited India when he was 12 years old and joined his father on a business trip. He was shocked by the...
Entire School Given Free Bikes for Proving Poverty No Match for a Great Principal
Tom Shadyac, the director of blockbuster comedies like Liar, Liar and Bruce Almighty, became famous for giving up his riches in favor of a...
Boulder Cyclists Rescue Food Via Bikes, Donate 170K Pounds to Hungry
Over the past year a group of cyclists in Boulder, Colorado have rescued 170,000 pounds of food that would otherwise be thrown out, transporting...
The Bicycle Man Fixes Up 1,100 Bikes to Give Away for Christmas in Hometown
A retired Navy mechanic has been refurbishing bicycles for needy children in Fayettesville, NC. for nearly 20 years.
His workshop has been especially busy preparing...
Mexico City Offers Bikes In Its Clean Air Campaign
Mexico City isn't the most bicycle-friendly place. But residents are being asked to take the risk -- between spewing buses and shrill police...
Hotels Offer Free Bikes as a Green Way to see the Sights
An increasing number of trendy hotels across North America, Europe and Asia are offering guests free use of bikes during their stay, as...
From Bush to Bikes, a Bamboo Revolution
On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda. "We planted this bamboo...
New Bikes Help Kids Get to School in Zambia
Children shed tears of joy in Zambia as they received gifts of 100 bicycles from a Chicago charity this week. With the goal of...
Abandoned Rail Line Ready for Bikes, Walking in Detroit
An abandoned depressed former rail line, , officially opened to the public this week as a 1.2-mile biking and walking path and a...
Bamboo Bikes, Ghana’s Green Transport (w/ Video)
A new kind of bicycle, lightweight and sturdy, made from the abundant bamboo in the forests of Ghana is making life easier for farmers...
Pedaling of Bikes Powers Green Gym
A gym in Portland, Ore., will use exercise equipment to generate electricity. In Adam Boesel's green gym, people will not only slim their waistlines,...
Iran Couple Bikes for Peace and Changing Country’s Image
For 395 days, an Iranian couple has been bicycling around the world to promote peace, heal it's country's image, and heal the environment by...
College to Give Bikes to Freshmen
Ripon College hopes to ease its campus parking shortage with a bicycle giveaway for incoming freshmen: "If they promise not to bring a car...
30,000 in Barcelona Share Bikes
Barcelona has gone bike crazy, with 30,000 people signing up in the first 2 months to participate in a new public transportation system involving...
Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes: a New Way to Pedal
Bamboo has captured the imagination of American manufacturers -- providing the material for everything from plush tee shirts to baseball bats to flooring. Count...
Guns for Bikes Program in Africa Expanding
This program should be administered throughout the world! ... Gunmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo are given bicycles in exchange for their weapons....
Teaching Kids to Ride Bikes
Today was an interesting day. The phone had rang last night and told me where to go.
The program was teaching disabled children how to...