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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Handouts for Rich and Poor
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Thursday, February 27, 2014. Handouts for Rich and Poor. Takes on many of the uncomfortable reactions toward poverty programs such as free food, monetary assistance and other handouts. Interestingly, it shows completely opposite reactions when massive corporations receive handouts many times larger than those going to struggling people. The complete lack of any stigma over corporate handouts is very disturbing. Social Business vs. Charity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Read About the Book. The rece...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: March 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Perhaps the most popular topic in our book Defying Poverty with Bicycles. So, I thought it might be time to post this excerpt from the book that describes how to start trainees slowly, allow for some to move on, and focus on your star trainees to become your eventual master welders of your bikes:. Some students won’t get this far in the course. Others will graduate and get hired at your center, but won’t move past the apprentice welder level of welding your racks b...By envisionin...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Training Bicycle Welders
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Perhaps the most popular topic in our book Defying Poverty with Bicycles. So, I thought it might be time to post this excerpt from the book that describes how to start trainees slowly, allow for some to move on, and focus on your star trainees to become your eventual master welders of your bikes:. Some students won’t get this far in the course. Others will graduate and get hired at your center, but won’t move past the apprentice welder level of welding your racks b...By envisionin...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Social Bike Business at Velo-city. The Velo-city conference is fast approaching in early June so I’ve been busy arranging meetups and preparing my offerings. I’ll be presenting on One Street’s Social Bike Business program. During the Friday parallel sessions. A nice surprise is that I am not the only presenter on bicycles and social issues. That Friday morning,. As well as other leaders of social bike programs in our session called Pedaling Towards Social Change. Is Mirella at C...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: DIY Bike Gift Ideas
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Sunday, December 22, 2013. DIY Bike Gift Ideas. Are you having trouble finding last minute gifts for some of your bike friends? Maybe all you need is some stealth DIY creativity to dress up their ride before Christmas morning. Take a look at these two sites for inspiration:. Where you will find handy ideas like bike rack extensions using coat hangers:. And this list of 24 DIY bike projects. Labels: Making Bikes and Parts. February 1, 2014 at 1:10 PM. Hoping we get another ice over so I can try this.
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Are Bike Kitchens Elitist by Choice?
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Friday, May 30, 2014. Are Bike Kitchens Elitist by Choice? Ever since we launched the Social Bike Business program. I’ve been attracted to bike kitchens. It’s hard to imagine a better sort of place than these comfortable spaces where young people gather around the shared goal of repairing bicycles. But something always bothers me whenever I visit one. For those not familiar with bike kitchens, the concept started in. When I travel, I always buy a used bike to ride during my stay. If the bike I buy ne...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Assembling Bike Shift Levers
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Assembling Bike Shift Levers. 8217;s unusually wet summer of monsoon thunderstorms finally ended a few weeks ago, which allowed me whole days of casting our Bike Shift Levers. These Bike Shift Levers are designed for people who rely on their bicycles every day with just six common parts, two of which are cast from scrap aluminum. I’m starting production here in. But soon our partners around the world will get their own permanent molds so they can produce them for their regions.
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Why to Avoid a Triple Bottom Line for Bike Programs
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Why to Avoid a Triple Bottom Line for Bike Programs. I’m fairly well fed up with the concept of the triple bottom line. The idea goes that a company or social enterprise can do a good job of ensuring all three of these at once: profits, environmental stewardship, and social good. Bull. As long as profits are in that bottom line, someone will always fudge the other two. Here’s an excerpt from Defying Poverty with Bicycles. Labels: Leading a Social Bike Business Program. Tuesda...
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Defying Poverty with Bicycles: Detroit as Bicycle Business Model
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Sunday, November 23, 2014. Detroit as Bicycle Business Model. I’ve been intrigued by the potential of. For many years now. Its slip away from car manufacturing and abandonment by motorized corporate investors has torn the city open into a place where just about anything could happen. Bleak, empty factories can glimmer like castles to the right visionaries. And sure enough, many of those visionaries have entered the scene on two wheels. A recent article in Fortune magazine. Detroiters are doing it for the...
