Vegans Race Bamboo Bikes
by Doug on February 22, 2008
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Verdier Solar VW
Somehow "green" has shed its hippy image and become hip, intelligent, even trendy. Verdier has done the same for the classic hippy ride—the VW bus. Not only does this camper look like a work of retro urban art, it's also got 2008 eco cred. The hybrid engine can run on diesel and electric. It sports a 40 watt, 12 volt solar panel. It's GPS and wireless
This just in from Bicycle Retaler and Industry News (BRAIN).
Organic Athlete has formed a new partnership with Calfee Design that will see the first vegan cycling team racing on Calfee bamboo bikes. In a unique partnership, Organic Athlete is teaming up with Calfee to not only ride the bikes, but to co-promote and develop the brand. The result is a team whose message of personal health and social change now manifests itself in the form of a green, renewable bicycle.
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Darwin Design
Simple. Fun. Meaningful. Whatever you think of Darwin Designs organic cotton t-shirts, which are made with low-impact water-based dyes, they get noticed on the street (or hiking trail). Each shirt features an endangered animal and a positive succinct message: “re-think big" (under a blue whale) or “live gently" (under a sea turtle), or, our favorite, a polar bear with the tagline "start global cooling." “Climate change is an issue we feel passionate about and this is an effective way to spread a global message on a local level,” says Darwin Designs co-founder Otto Pohl. “Every person out there wearing our shirts becomes a
Now we think that both the choice to be vegan (which it turns out could do far more to reduce your impact on the planet than, say driving a hybrid car according to the UN) and the choice to ride a bamboo bike (which is supposedly can be as supple and strong as carbon fiber) should be individual choices, not mandates set down by the green police. But we love the energy of this team, which should at least do something to dispel the stereotype of vegetarians as weak, anemic, hippies. So go out and dominate the meat-eaters, Organic Athlete!
Of course, there is one thing that can beat a team of vegan racers on bamboo bikes (or at least, ahem, make tehm break their concentration) … vegan strip club Casa Diablo in Portland, Oregon!
Thoughts
fixedgear wrote:
February 22, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Not to split hairs (everyone says that when they are about to do just exactly that) but Linda McCartney (RIP) did in fact sponsor the first vegan pro road cycling team a few years back.
anemic wrote:
May 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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July 18, 2008 at 12:29 am
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