... from across America met in Richmond Saturday for a weekend of advocacy training hosted by VBF and The Alliance for Biking and Walking ... bodies spent the weekend planning campaigns to promote bicycling and walking in their home communities. “As a new, state wide ... of Virginia, was hosted by VBF and the Richmond Area Bicycling Association, and funded through a generous grant from Planet Bike, ...

... ) and a bike ride to the grocery store Read more about Cranksgiving More articles about the organized bike rides Bike Advocacy Travel with your bike Cranksgiving - Food Drive on Two Wheels originally appeared on About.com Bicycling on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 00:09:12.

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We recently wrote about W.K. Kellogg’s early bicycling advocacy efforts including his lifetime membership in the League of American Wheelmen. Those efforts have continued through the Kellogg Foundation which has invested in trails throughout Michigan. Here’s more good news as of last Monday. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation ...

... and local governments to include cycling as an integral part of a sustainable transport strategy – which Copenhagen exemplifies so well. Maybe he can help power their municipal Christmas tree while he’s there. Is there some international bicycling advocacy education group that I'm not aware of yet? If we're to "think ...

... a nuanced position, and I feel that given the place we're in in Portland right now, we need a really engaged advocacy group to push the city that's really getting comfortable with biking, and the BTA ... " in the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and not continuing to segregate out bicycling from other modes of transportation advocacy." From this reporter's perspective, an event ...

... attention and recognition. In April, SWFBUD won the prestigious Retailer Advocacy Award from the Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) ... then this summer, the Trek Bicycle Corp. gave its Advocacy Leadership Award to SWFBUD for working with Hillsborough County officials ... North Straub Park in downtown St. Petersburg to celebrate bicycling. It was a hot day, but a great setting for SWFBUD's ...

... read my blog who aren't in Dallas, and that is most of the very few of you, there has been an explosion of bicycle awareness and advocacy happening in Dallas the past year. I would have never guessed my first year here ... Unfair Park (Dallas Observer blog, the Dallas weekly) there is a damn story about bicycling around Dallas. Every fucking day I see a bajillion tweets and Facebook updates about ...

... can make. This will, in fact, be the most significant call for action for bicycling we'll make in 2009! 2) Please provide written ... 501c(3) non-profit, bicycle advocacy organization that works to get more people bicycling. We promote and encourgae all forms of ... utilitarian, commuting, kids to school - if it's bicycling,we support it! And most importantly, we're your representative voice ...

... the “utility cyclist.” There is little more tedious than discussions about bicycle safety, advocacy, and how best to clean up once you get to work. Fenders, pannier, lights, wet-wipes, good ... my tenuous grasp on sanity. So, in an uncharacteristic swan dive into the madness that is bicycling media, I took it upon myself to look at a back issue of Cog over at a friend’s place the ...

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... ? You're not alone. Roughly two-thirds of the 1,700 recreational road bicycling events held in 2008 raised money for a cause, collecting nearly $200 million for charities in the US. That's just part of the impact that recreational bicycling events have on the American economy, according to a study by the advocacy group Bikes Belong. In all, 1 million of us ...

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... mixed reviews because it's not really a manifesto. Hurst examines the history of bicycling and auto use in America and around the world, taking some fascinating side trips (like ... World War II). Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do is essential for anybody involved in transportation advocacy issues of any kind, along with anyone who reports or blogs about transportation issues. Tom Vanderbilt ...