Keith at Carbon Neutral Journal points out a cool endeavor that could inspire some teens to get into the bike design business.
The Innovate or Die Contest is sponsored by Specialized Bikes and offers a $5,000 prize to the best "unprecedented pedal powered" machine. Contestants post their inventions on You Tube.
I've mentioned iback in the early 70's we were building our own "clunkers" for use on the paths of our local state park, years before "mountain bike" was a term. If we could do it then, today's kids can too.
Bikes, kids,the outdoors, imaginations, and You Tube all connect, who knows what they could come up with?
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People and Nature Journal began as Children and Nature Journal in June of 2007. It provides some daily observations, links, and resources to the topic of people and their connections to nature. The blog was inspired by work I was doing with Rich Louv and others to devise ways of reconnecting children to nature. Since then, I have evolved the nature of the blog to a wider range of issues related to the connections that we all have, or could with nature. Topics can include outdoor sports, relevant news on the Children and Nature Movement, the arts, health, education, wilderness and wildlife issues, and culture. We try to post once a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. Thanks for stopping by. You can find a contact email on my profile page.
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