Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
Today I joined the Brisbane Climate Change Rally 2015. It was a fun, colourful, purposeful, but hot day. I went with two friends and took Leki with me (who was a smash hit with the crowd because of her colourful flowers). We had a great time chatting to people around us before we took to the streets – I …
I was looking at research from America, trying to get a sense of how many high school students cycle to school. I found a small, but very interesting study from Davis, California. It specifically looked at what are the major dis/encouragements for high school students in relation to biking to school. Problem: The dwindling number …
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Many people do not Know what Makes Them Happy. This is not just a personal problem; this is an ecological and social issue. Many cyclists love riding and they know it makes them happy – but few make the connection between their experience on a single ride and the idea that by undertaking any ride, …
Practice: In September 2013, the town of Suwon, South Korea, went car free for a month for the Ecomobility Festival. It took two years to plan and in order to help assist the locals’ mobility, 400 free public bicycles were provided as well as bike riding lessons as many residents had never ridden a bike before. I …
Why women in developing countries should have Bicycles. Mobility, especially to workplaces and markets, for the women and girls who make-up 70% of the world’s poor, is often hampered by distance, cost, carrying capacity, time and availability. Many of these women are limited to walking and in many cases headloading an average of 20kgs to transport …
Essentially, the purpose of this blog is to identify, collate and share my critical ethnography research of International Aid Programs that give bicycles (in particular to girls) in order to bring about positive social change. I also want to see if such bike aid increases female participation in education. Ultimately, I am working towards exploring the stories of the lived …
Preliminary ideas A quick brainstorm before I delve into the preliminary sourcing of Bike Aid Projects. I want to have a clearer idea of my starting point and what I want to start researching. The first step is some preliminary groundwork into bike ventures to see what individuals, organisations and initiatives are currently being implemented. I also want …
Welcome to Bicycles Create Change! The Maityuwampi (bat wing) best represents this inaugural post. Just as the Kaurna peoples in South Australia had no words to describe the bicycle and had to create new ways to describe it, so too, this blog endeavour to communicate and share the stories, initiatives and people who use, exchange, …