A second life for your two-wheeler

Radio listeners in the Ottawa area may have caught some of my recent Eco Voyager and Living Lightly radio spots on the local CHUM radio stations. One of them goes like this:

“Many of us have an old bicycle that is, umm… under-used. And a little bit rusty. Here’s a suggestion, several local groups fix up donated bikes and give them to charities in Ottawa or send them to places where even an old bicycle can make a real difference. Old friends making new friends. That’s living lightly. Visit livinglightly.ca for more insights”

I have been a little slow in posting the additional information I had wanted to, and here I am out in California and British Columbia working on my new film Powerful: Energy Security for Everyone (see www.powerfulthemovie.com), but the internet is a wonderful tool for doing your work from afar. So, for Ottawa residents you can contact either re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://www.re-cycles.ca/ or Bicycles for Humanity http://www.bicycles-for-humanity.org/Ottawa/index.php

People who live in other cities should do an online search using terms like “donate bicycles” followed by your city, and see what comes up.

Happy bicycle recycling!

David

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One Response to “A second life for your two-wheeler”

  1. Mark Rehder Says:
    April 1st, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    David, thanks for the mention of the re-Cycles shop, along with BfH. Re-Cycles has a new (2008) partnership with Cycle Salvation, another non-profit bicycle recycling group that uses our shop when we’re not there: http://www.cyclesalvation.org/