Rolling into green commutes 7/12/2021 [Video]

Five restaurant workers do their part to reduce carbon emissions this summer when they ride their new electric bikes provided by 4CORE and the Colorado Energy Office. You’re watching the Local News Network, brought to you by Tile & Light Art and San Juan Basin Public Health. I’m Wendy Graham Settle. The Colorado Energy Office launched the Can Do Colorado eBike pilot program last year to give eBikes to essential workers in the Denver area to help offset costs of transportation and emissions. The program then offered grants to entice other Colorado communities to provide eBikes to essential workers and Durango landed one. The Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency, 4CORE, partnered with several local restaurants and organizations around town to create the Roll to Restaurants program, which eventually will put 16 restaurant workers on eBikes in the community.

We developed this model called Roll to Restaurants and we figured, …