Little Bikes for Little People!

I am always getting complimented on my bike. Random strangers will say to me - Hey, nice bike! And I always reply, "Thanks! I *love* it." And if they stick around, I'll launch into the litany of reasons why riding my awesome bike is *so* much better than driving. I figure it's one small way for me to help make the world a better place.

My bike is made by a local company called PUBLIC - and one of the reasons I love it so much is that it FITS me. Unlike all other bike manufacturers, Public seems to understand that bikes - like people - should come in at least three sizes. Yesterday they sent out a promo for a sale on their small-sized bikes (like mine). So if you, or someone you know, is petite and looking for a great new bike - here's your chance: eepurl.com/wWoW9.

This is the only picture of my bike I seem to have - it's the bright yellow/green bike with the matching rack & fenders. (That's my friend Rachel standing next to it, holding Nik's bike.)

Stanford Faculty Guide to the Office of Accessible Education

I've been working since last October on a series of videos for Stanford University's Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs, and I'm pleased to report that they're finally finished!

Click here to see all six episodes.

A lot of people worked on this project, including:
Jenni Nelson (associate producer/Queen of Logistics)
Keith Wilson (camera)
Jeremiah Moore (sound)
Summers Henderson and Sara Newens (assistant editors)
Sari Gilman and Maria Fortiz-Morse (editors)
Sylvia Roberts (graphics/titling)
Robert Arnold (online edit/color correction)

Back in the saddle...

I decided - over a year ago - to start blogging about environmental issues, and in particular about my life as an environmentally aware bike commuter and mother, stuck in car-friendly San Jose, California. But life got in the way, and then we moved away from San Jose (which was a good thing), and the blogging didn't happen. But a lot of other good things did happen: like moving to Palo Alto, and getting trained with Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps last summer (that's me in the front row with the yellow shawl):

My controlled panic about the increasing rate of climate change also got me involved with David Gershon's Empowerment Institute and the Cool City Challenge - which I'll be blogging more about soon. And in my spare time I also managed to produce a series of videos for Stanford University's Student Affairs Office, which I will be delivering tomorrow(!) with help from Robert Arnold at Lateral Films.

So... because March 11 is as good a day as any to turn over a new leaf, I'm starting to blog again. Welcome, and thanks for reading!