For the second straight year, Sustainability Organizer Jack Lin staffed a energizer station in front of Laney College on Bike to Work Day. While counting the number of cyclists who passed the 9th and Fallon Street intersection, Mr. Lin also gave passing cyclists musette bags as a token of appreciation for riding their bikes to work and to school.
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Laney ESL Instructor Nikki Ellman rolls out of campus at the end of the day.
Nikki Ellman teaches ESL at Laney College, and she is one of the most devote bike commuters in the Peralta community. Two or three times a week, she hops on her mountain bike, complete with cargo toting panier bags, and rides 5 miles from her Berkeley home to Laney College. A full-time faculty member, Ms. Ellman has been biking to Laney for the past 10 years.
“It’s just really fun. I just can’t imagine commuting any other way,” says Ms. Ellman. “I only take my car when I have to be at Laney at 8am or when I’m leaving late in the day.” She also doesn’t ride during heavy rains, although drizzle is OK to ride in. She didn’t own a car until the age of 25. As she does today, she felt trapped in a machine.
An official negotiation meeting at the Copenhagen climate talks. Photo from Johannes Jansson/norden.org
Many people from the Oakland/East Bay traveled to Copenhagen including Laney College’s Green Jobs Program Coordinator, Emily Courtney, who travelled to observe the proceedings and atmosphere.
“It was amazing just how many dedicated people there were,” described Emily. “I met people on the bus ride to the conference center. You wait in the registration line and meet somebody else. Then you met the person you sat next to, and another person a lunch, and another new person on bus ride out. And it was like that everyday.”
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