Lance Rake is Professor of Industrial Designat the University of Kansas and the creative force behind “The Semester Bicycle,” a sleek and durable bike made of bamboo grown just three blocks from an assembly shop in Greensboro, Alabama. He’s collaborating with community development organizations in Greensboro to create more than an innovative bike, but a new manufacturing model to pull a town in an economic standstill back into the race.
A Bicycle Built From Bamboo: Can It Get This Alabama Town Back On Track?
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