Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Bicycle City

The Bicycle City. Trailer from Greg Sucharew on Vimeo.



What happens to an impoverished developing nation town when you flood it with 20,000 bicycles? You lift three times that number of people out of poverty. Pedals for Progress and founder David Schweidenback have been shipping used American bicycles to Rivas, Nicaragua for the last two decades and the transformation has been incredible.

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