Tag Archives: Hands-on

The Bikery

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From their website, “The Bikery uses collaborative, hands-on education in bicycles and cycling to liberate movement and increase access to knowledge, and to share the revelation that all forms of knowledge can be earned without permission. We are an all volunteer run, non-profit community bike project located in Seattle, nestled between the central district and the international district. We are here to provide the tools and resources to help you learn about your bike and fix it yourself.”

 

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

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(206) 568-3535

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1265 S Main St. #104 Seattle, WA 98144

The Evergreen Bike Shop

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According to their website, “The Evergreen Bike Shop is a student led community run do-it-yourself bike shop that is open to the entire Olympia area.  Our goal is to provide various resources to the community in order to promote cycling as an active lifestyle as well as educate people regarding alternative transportation issues. The shop tries to provide an alternative to the often-prohibitive nature of bike repair and culture both in financial cost and accessibility. By maintaining a free learning environment where anyone, student or not, can develop skills of bike self-reliance, the shop encourages a developing ethic of environmental and social consciousness.”

 

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(360) 867-6399

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2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, WA 98505

City Repair Project

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As stated on the webpage, “City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.”

City Repair emphasizes sustainability through localization.  With Placemaking as a sustainability strategy, they hope to foster engaged and active relationships between community members and the spaces they inhabit.  They assist community members in creating communal and ecologically oriented places through educational or hands-on projects such as Intersection Repair and Village Building Conference.

Other City Repair fields include:

•Urban Planning and Design

•Ecological and Social Sustainability

•Community resource localization

•Nonhierarchical decision-making

•Equality, diversity and peace

•Cultural identity and Bioregionalism

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(503) 235-8946

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PO Box 42615 Portland, OR 97242

Corvallis Bicycle Co-op

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According to their site their philosophy is “Putting Bikes Under People.

The Corvallis Bike Collective is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are comprised entirely of volunteers dedicated to putting safe, affordable, working bikes under all people of Corvallis and putting those bikers on the roads.”

Organization to promote low impact lifestyles (cycling as transport).

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(541) 224-6885

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PO Box 188; Corvallis, OR 97339

Recycling Advocates

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Formed in 1987, Recycling Advocates is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the mission to involve people in creating a sustainable future through local efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Our membership is comprised of conservation-minded citizens and waste prevention professionals.

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(503) 777-0909

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P.O. Box 6736, Portland, OR 97228

DePave

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Depave is an 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that removes unnecessary pavement from the Portland area, to create community gardens and water runoff mitigation areas.  Pavement is harmful in its social and environmental impacts, and this organization seeks to replace this material with soil and eventually plants.  This is accomplished through community events that reconnect people with nature.

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P.O. Box 12503 Portland, Oregon, 97212

Bike Farm

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According to their website “Bike Farm is a non-profit, volunteer-run bicycle maintenance collective. They are all volunteers and all love bikes. They open the shop and their tools to the public five days a week so everyone can learn the joys of working on their own bike.” Reducing the use of cars/other carbon outputting transport is an important way to fight climate change. Bike Farm is a resource to do this.

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(971) 533-7428

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305 NE Wygant St Portland, OR 97211