The Green Institute and ALL the tenants in our building hosted the largest free breakfast for bikers and walkers last Thursday in the Twin Cities for BikeWalk to Work Day! Guests included Mayor R. T. Rybak, Councilmembers Schiff and Glidden, Commissioner McLaughlin, and Rep. Davnie, in addition to the co-creators of 30 Days of Biking! We also gave away spoke cards to commemorate our third annual event.
We had 403 people in attendance at our event and logged a cumulative 3580 miles, more than doubling last year’s total number of miles biked. One intrepid biker even commuted 52 miles! We even had a bakfiets, a Dutch cargo bike, which gave a local reporter a ride around the parking lot in its “basket”.
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We served pancakes, sausage, eggs (40 dozen!), oatmeal, Birchwood pastries, granola bars, Peace Coffee (600 cups!!!) and juice. The Hub Bike Co-op did some small repairs at their free bike check clinic and handed out free patch kits, we also had a Metro Transit bus bike rack for folks to try out. The Bike Alliance of MN and the Midtown Greenway Coalition were also here. Additionally, thanks to Eureka Recycling and advanced planning, we produced only 1.25 lbs of trash—that’s less than a tenth of an ounce per person! By composting 82 pounds of material and recycling 12.3 pounds, 99% of all waste generated at the event was diverted from the trash!
Click here or watch the slideshow below to check out photos from the event.
We also want to thank Transit for Livable Communities the Minneapolis TMO and St. Paul Smart Trips, City of Minneapolis Bike Walk Ambassador program and the entire Bike Walk Week team for their support! In addition, there are all of our fabulous sponsors and donors. Keep reading to learn who they are and read what people were saying about the event on Twitter!
Sponsors include:
- The Green Institute
- Wellington Management
- Peace Coffee
- Great Plains Institute
- Nonprofits Assistance Fund
- Birchwood Café
- Eureka Recycling
- The Hub Bike Co-op
- Progressive Technology Project
- Headwaters Foundation for Justice
- Fox Consulting
- Community Action of Minneapolis
- Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
- The Energy Conservatory & the Will Steger Foundation
- Interior Tropicals
- SGH
- Corporation for Supportive Housing.
Donors include:
- The Wedge Co-op
- Seward Co-op
- Trader Joe’s
- General Mills
- Blue Gentian Farm
- Thousand Hills Cattle Company
- Organic Valley
- Cooperative Print Solutions
- Cub Foods
- Rainbow Foods.
Chatter before, during and after the event on Twitter:
