this url is for a really well thought out and concise argument for environmental politics, (especially the first section), and i just wanted to share.

Thank Ron on riseup.net’s “shift” email-lists

Issue #57 of Carfree Times is just out and available free

If you want to join some email communities, lists.riseup.net is awesome

I just found this awesome website for bike maps. “Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes.” a bike map sharing space, who woulda thought?

The weather is nice and you’re going to want to hit the road again on your bike, but you need a helmet and maybe some panniers to help you take home everything you got at the farmer’s market.

BikeFarm can hook you up with cheap helmets and panniers. We’ve got a large dontation of both brand new panniers from Basil and helmets from Bell. Come by the shop and see for yourself.

Helmets go for around $10 (the cheapest in the city but just as safe) and the panniers range from $5 to $10.

Ask a volunteer to help you out with what you need and want!

ROUTE DETAILS: Two-hour loop with stops. Easy ride, however children must be with an adult and lone riders under 8 not recommended. This ride will go Rain or Shine!

Keep up-to-date at Shifttobikes.org or on Facebook.

The Red and Black Cafe is having a benefit for Bike Farm, and what an awesome way to fundraise! Quicksilver will be shown, and this sounds like an epic bike movie! Well IMHO any bike movie is an epic event…

So friends, come out to the Red and Black and enjoy a good movie with some friends, have a beer or two, a delicious treat from their amazing vegan menu; and help keep  Bike Farm’s doors open and stocked while you’re at it! Hope to see you there!

http://redandblackcafe.com/

From: Nate M <yourheartmaystop@gmail.com>
To: Shift List <shift@lists.riseup.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:35:28 -0800
Subject: [shift] Tweed Ride and Chop my stash for Haiti!

I want YOU to chop my stash for Haiti!

That’s right.
Come to my home on Wednesday, Feb 3rd, and chop off a piece of my mustache in exchange for making a donation of $5, or whatever you can afford, which I will send to Lamp for Haiti, a charity co-founded by my friends brother-in-law that has maintained a free medical clinic in the most impoverished region of Port-au-Prince, Cite Soleil, since 2004.

You get to chop a little, or maybe you get to chop a lot, it depends on how many people show up.
Please, help my mustache go bye-bye, and help keep medical care flowing in Cite Soleil.

When: Wed, Feb 3rd, from 7pm to 930pm
Where: 6446 NE Cleveland Ave

OoOO! and if anybody wants to, we can go for a bike ride after the chopping and get a beer, and marvel at how I can now drink out of a glass without having to wipe the foam out of the stash afterwards.

Aha! See, it IS bike fun!

Thanks,

Nate

Check out their website for more information and they’re accepting donations to us (yay!) and the Coalition for Livable Future.

If you’re so inclined, help them (and us) out with a donation to the Bike Farm!

No Drinking at Bike Farm!

Last night we opened up the doors for our very own volunteer appreciation party! There was music, food, drink and of course, DANCING!

We here at the ‘Farm are not all just about bikes and fixing bikes and building bikes (ok, well, that’s definitely a lot of it), but we’re also about building community and having fun. Enjoy a few pictures from last night:

Cooling Off Outside

Dancing!

And of course…

Cleaning up

]]> http://bikefarm.org/2009/12/18/volunteer-appreciation-party/feed/ 0 http://bikefarm.org/2009/12/07/brand-new-wednesday-shop-hrrrs/ http://bikefarm.org/2009/12/07/brand-new-wednesday-shop-hrrrs/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:45:47 +0000 darren http://bikefarm.org/blog/?p=225 That’s right! Bike Farm is now open on Wednesday from 4-7PM. Simon is piloting a new day and if it catches on (which seems to be happening) we’ll continue indefinitely. Cheers to using the shop to it’s full potential! Come in this Wed. and work on your bike or volunteer.

Summer boomed - The shop was packed this summer. There were so many people getting their bikes ready for tours and general summery enjoyment.

Volunteers went on tour – Momoko rode from Eugene to San Fran with The Spoken Heart Collective to promote social justice and learn leadership skills. Dusty and myself toured the beautiful state of Oregon finding adventure at every turn.

New Double Stand – Summer success allowed Bike Farm to expand it’s capacity for bike work with a new stand that accommodates two bicycles.

Shop reorganization - Lisa brought in tons of shelving and Peter made hooks for more wheel storage among other projects. We are constantly searching for the most efficient use of our space.

Women & Trans Night - Lisa, Jess, and Laura have been working to make every other Tuesday an extra comfy space for female and transgendered people to come and work on their bikes.

New Volunteers – More and more folks are coming in and helping out with our shop operations. It seems that as things get chillier more people are working on volunteer projects, building up bikes for the shop and getting a chance to learn even more about bike mechanics.

Dusty got a grant! - Dusty applied to the Students in Service program and got a grant for doing Bike Farm.

Build Bikes Program! – Bike Farm is in the process of creating a new program that will allow folks in need of a bike to trade their labor for their very own two wheeled machine. More info to come on that one!

Well, I hope I have sufficiently corrected our blog deficiency. Hope to see all of you readers in the shop!