Earth Day Update: Bike Parade and Expansion of Bearcat Bike Share Program
Earth Day is this Friday, April 22. And campus will celebrate that day with an Earth Day bike parade starting at
noon, Friday, April 22
.
The parade of bikes will pedal from University Pavilion to the old Faculty Club (next to the Alumni Center). To find University Pavilion, use this
. University Pavilion is located on the left side of the map, just south of McMicken Hall.
The parade will end at UC's new "Bike Kitchen," located in the old Faculty Club. The
is a bike repair shop providing opportunities to the UC community to learn about bike repair, bike safety, commuting, and to use the resources to do simple repairs on their own bikes. It also maintains the bikes used in UC's Bearcat Bike Share Program. That program was launched on Earth Day 2010 with 30 bikes. For Earth Day 2011, the UC bike share program will expand to include 25 more bikes, including road bikes and hybrid models.
to the program: Bike check-out locations are being expanded to include the CARE/Crawley Fitness Center on East Campus as well as UC-East in Batavia. Users can now check out bikes for up to three days.
- Find out about more UC Earth Week events online.
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Recycling Grows at UC - By Tons at a Time.(Up 23 percent in the last year.)
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New Efficiency Efforts Mean Economic and Energy Savings.
- UC Sustainability Efforts Earn Kudos.
- Green Rankings: For Second Year, Princeton Review Names UC Among Nation's Green Leaders.
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