Find out what Neighborhood Bike Works and the “Bicycle Lifestyle” is all about right here >>>
This four minutes video was filmed and edited by Greendocs:
Julia Hoff, Bunker Seyfert,Heather Craig and Kathleen Monahan.
Read on…
While discussing our next short video project with Julia and Bunker, I suggested Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW), also known as the “Bike Church”.
NBW meet all the criteria for a short film on a local Sustainability subject:
- NBW Youth Program received the 2008 Philadelphia Sustainability Award from the Pennsylvania Environmental Council for its efforts in recycling tons and tons of bicycles and bicycle parts.
- NBW is all about fixing bicycles and safe bicycling practices.
- The Main NBW location is in the sub-basement of a church at the edge of the UPenn campus is visually arresting,
- NBW is a non profit focused on teaching usable skills to disadvantaged inner city youth.
- NBW organizes events that strengthen the surrounding West Philadelphia neighborhoods.
- NBW also maintains hours when people can bring their bikes, use NBW tools and the advice and councel of NBW facilitators to fix their bikes, with the cost of parts as their only cost.
- And hell, bicycles are still the most energy efficient transportation mode ever invented by humans, about 200 times more efficient than your average car.
The surprise came while interviewing the young men and women fixing their bikes or working as facilitators at NBW. They kept talking about “the Bicycle Lifestyle“…!!!????
