Each year, Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations hosts its downtown Green Fair, and this Friday, over 100 presenters will take over Main Street to showcase their efforts toward community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030.
The Bicycle Alliance of Washtenaw will be one of those presenters, helping our friends at Human Electric Hybrids launch the city’s new cargo bike lending library. We’re also partial to the annual Bike Parade for the Planet, which will begin with a fleet of decorated bikes—including yours!—from Pretzel Bell at 6pm and end with a free cone at Washtenaw Dairy.
As we near the halfway point of this ten-year initiative, Jennifer and Sheronda are struck by the city’s momentum toward sustainability. The cultural shift is coming, buoyed by unprecedented enthusiasm to keep the planet from boiling away.
Behavioral change can be hard, but little by little, kilowatt by kilowatt, our community is embracing new ways to make our homes and lives more climate-friendly. And the huge leap in usage of the new bike infrastructure is a big part of that.
Join us on September 20 from 5-8pm on Main Street in Ann Arbor, stretching from Huron Street to William Street, and see why this annual blowout is more popular than ever. And one of these years, someone might even offer up bike-aritas!
Other links:
OSI Director Missy Stults
Ann Arbor’s sister city, Tübingen, Germany
Cinnaholic is exactly what you think it is
Did you know they’re called “boober carts”?
The maker space at All Hands Active
World Car-Free Day on September 22
Episode 2: Decorate your bike for Green Fair!