A good facilitator brings some important materials to a meeting including an easel, markers, a small clock and most challenging of all to carry on a bicycle, a full sized posterboard to scribe notes to capture everyone’s good thoughts. Up until now, I have always asked clients to bring the posterboard because it was too challenging to secure on my small bike rack.



For a recent peer learning session I led for the Liberty Hill Foundation, one of the leading funders of social change movements in Los Angeles, I decided I would incorporate a little social change in my own lifestyle and bring everything to the training by bicycle.  Knowing I couldn't fit everyone on my existing bike, I remembered one of my neighbors here at the LA Eco-Village has an XtraCycle I could borrow, which is a bicycle trailer device designed to carry heavy loads.

What GOOD ideas do you have to improve the physical environment in LA? Bike Boulevards? Bike Parking? Bike Lanes? Check out Ron Milam's post about the subject and please share any thoughts you have.

These folks sound like BikeSages...

> For our second service project, the Global Debate Team will be donating 
> trees to schools around LA by bicycle.  Beginning Friday the 4th, we will 
> transport some of the trees. This will promote two ways of reversing climate 
> change: planting CO2-converting trees, and using alternatives to 
> CO2-emitting cars. We hope the schools we visit with our trees will agree to 
> replant and take care of them. We also hope they will feature us in their 
> newspapers and blogs, as Venice High School has already agreed to do. 
> 
> Venice High School is 14 and a half miles from Santee Education Complex. 
>  We invite anyone who wants a little exercise to join us on the ride to the 
> school along Venice Blvd. on Friday, December 4th, leaving Santee at 11am. 
> 
>
> LA Times article: 
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-santee29-2009nov29,0,5774015.story