Got this email from Lauren at byCycle. Sounds like a great project to support:

byCycle is a small collective of people working on projects of interest which advocate and facilitate bicycling as way to build a healthier, sustainable, more livable city. We advocate bicycling as a viable lifestyle choice and not just a sport. We are a not-for-profit group

Our main project right now is developing a bicycle route finder for the Portland area. The route finder will be similar to Mapquest, but for bikes. One of the very exciting things about our route finder is that it will be built so anyone can take our code and build a route finder at minimal cost in their own town.

Mapquest and similar programs use expensive industry standard data to perform their tasks. We have decided not to use that data, and instead are selecting and entering routes in by hand. Aside from cost, we feel this will create a carefully designed system which, although not as inclusive as Mapquest, will contain routes that users can be sure of.

To help support the route finder project we are looking for places to sell our sweatshop-free shirts. We currently have one style (see site for details), but will be expanding our design selection soon. If you are interested in selling our shirts or distributing pamphlets for the byCycle project in your business or buying a shirt yourself, please feel free to email me. Check out our site at http://www.bycycle.org.


Sincerely,

Lauren Donohue
byCycle.org
lauren@bycycle.org