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Perhaps you’ve seen them around town: cyclists careening the streets with large trailers and cargo carts treading behind them. These deliverymen and women are passionate and relentless, delivering packages around the city year-round in an effort to support local businesses and leave a minimal impact on the environment. They represent a small but growing movement [...]
The Toronto Bike Awards are this coming Monday (Sept. 26) at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West) The Toronto Bike Awards consist of the City of Toronto giving out Bicycle Friendly Business Awards (BFBA) and some bike groups will give out their own awards. Also, please note that the Toronto Cyclists Union is providing their [...]
After a short hiatus (usually these awards would’ve been given out last winter), the City of Toronto’s Bicycle Friendly Business Awards (BFBA) are back, and they’re accepting nominations for the next 2 months: Nominations are now being accepted for the BFBAs. The last day for BFBA submissions is September 12, 2011. This year awards will [...]
Theres is a fantastic article in Grist right now by Elly Blue (the managing editor of the excellent BikePortland.org website) that explains how embracing cycling can be an economic boom to an individual, an urban center, and a society: In the many North American cities where two-wheeled transportation is taking off, a new bicycle economy [...]
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We received our LiveGreenCard.ca newsletter in the mail today, and were happy to see that one of their new participating businesses is Featherstone Two Wheels Green Delivery – a delivery service that will deliver just about anything to you by bike, for just $1.50-$2.00 a kilometre, anywhere from Keele to Coxwell and south of Eglinton. [...]