Get a FREE bike if you don’t bring a car to Ripon College!

Published by lizveazey, February 14th, 2008 Campuses , Transportation

Ripon College, a small liberal arts college in the middle of a central Wisconsin cornfield, is giving a Trek 820 mountain bike (plus helmet and lock) to every student who pledges not to bring a car to campus for the 2008-2009 year. I have heard that this region is not typically very bike-friendly, so it will be interesting to see if initiatives like this do indeed change the culture. Check out the recent Chronicle of Higher Education story on this. I hope this catches on at other schools!! Sounds a lot cheaper that building parking garages which can cost $10,000-$20,000+ per parking space!

3 Responses to “Get a FREE bike if you don’t bring a car to Ripon College!”

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1 Tanya Punkkinen Feb 17th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Wow, I am extremely impressed! I have recently started a Environmental Sub-Committee at my college and am excited to find your campaign because I have parked my Jeep Grand Cherokee and purchased a city transit bus pass. I love taking the bus five days a week and walk to work on the weekends. I am taking personal responsibility for my impact on the earth and I want to become carbon neutral. Currently I am saving up for solar panels and want my school to run off of renewable energy sources. I live in Windsor, ON. Canada and we endure snow during the winter, however, I still promote leaving your car behind; and I want to win a free bike if I don’t bring my car to St. Clair College.

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About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

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