Thursday, February 07, 2008

Pedal Pushers Online | Grow Your Own Bike: Can a bike made from Bamboo end poverty in the world? Ask David Ho!

Pedal Pushers Online | Grow Your Own Bike: Can a bike made from Bamboo end poverty in the world? Ask David Ho!: "David Ho and his associates John Mutter, Vijay Modi and Craig Calfee have built a prototype bamboo cargo bike in Ghana, using locally sourced material. They plan to introduce the bamboo bike to the Earth Institute's Millennium Villages in Africa to test its effectiveness, to field test their manufacture, and to explore the possibilities of implementing the bamboo bikes on a large scale. Now all that remains is for the project to grow. What's going to make that happen? Your help..."

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