Green Bike Share featured on CalTV

CalTV’s Stephanie Lin interviews our co-founders Justin and Marcelo about the details of the program on campus.

GBS Featured at Timberland’s Earth Keepers

Timberland recently released a new environmentally friendly line, boasting footwear made from recycled and organic materials. As part of a new green iniative, Timberland has launched a social networking site and blog called Earthkeepers and explain:

We believe it’s time for companies, like ours, to take a look at how the way they do business affects the environment and do something about it. Earthkeepers is one way we’re trying to do exactly that. Our goal—inspire and engage one million Earthkeepers.

Their latest blog post urges students returning to campus this month to leave their cars at home and seek alternative modes of transportation. We were very excited to find that In the post, Green Bike Share is featured as a sustainable and healthy way to get around campus.

Read the full article here: Biking in Berkeley

GBS featured at GreenBiz.com

Green Bike Share was mentioned in a great piece about college bike sharing programs at GreenBiz.com. The article delves into several programs and features quotes from our co-founders Justin Wiley and Marcelo Garzo.

We are extremely excited to launch our pilot program at U.C. Berkeley this fall and are ecstatic about the bike share programs that are sprouting up all over the nation. Bicycle riding is fun, green and offers a great work out. Our program aims to offer students an inexpensive and hassle-free way to get around campus while promoting sustainability.

Read the full article here: “College Bike Share Programs Gearing Up for New School Year“

Bike Share

Recently, “bike sharing” has been widely discussed as a sustainable transportation alternative. Bike-sharing exists in cities such as Paris, which has over 10,000 bikes at 750 stations, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Oslo, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Toronto, Seattle, Portland, and New York. Bike sharing is popping up all over the country with many cities, Universities, and businesses considering and implementing this simple solution for local sustainable transportation.   Read More >>