We Prefer Green: Our Attempts to Leave a Small Environmental Footprint

Here at Adventure Cycling's headquarters in Missoula, Montana, we work hard to do our part in reducing our footprint on the planet, here's how:

• As an organization, we have a commitment to recycling and reusing what we can. We have a dedicated recycling captain (a.k.a. Greg Siple) who holds us hard and fast to this commitment.


• If you’ve purchased from CycloSource, our online store, you may have noticed that your item shipped in a used cardboard box -- when able, we reuse boxes and packing materials that we receive.


• We send out mailings in envelopes made of recycled paper. While it's currently cost-prohibitive to use recycled paper for our magazine and catalogs, we’re always trying to find ways to make them more environmentally friendly.


• We try to do as much of our printing and purchasing locally as possible. When we need to pick up or send out materials within Missoula, we gladly call upon exCARgo Missoula Bicycle Delivery. They'll haul anything, all by bike and trailer!
  


• At our celebrations and events, we strive to buy local food and refreshments -- heck, it tastes better anyway! Then we collect our food scraps for compost.


• We're looking into purchasing carbon credits that will offset the carbon impact of staff travel.
  

We also provide covered bike parking for Adventure Cycling employees to encourage bicycle commuting. We’ve won Missoula’s annual Commuter Challenge two years in a row, competing against other organizations and businesses for the highest employee commuter participation. These wins are not entirely surprising, since our mission is to inspire people of all ages to travel by bicycle!

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GREENCYCLE is posted each Saturday by Kylie Paul, Adventure Cycling’s sales and shipping specialist. With a lifetime commitment to conservation, Kylie hopes to share the many ways that bicycling and Adventure Cycling are helping to improve our planet!