Business by bike: Providence entrepreneurs start small and green

Providence people who use bikes in their work include police officers, merchants, messengers, and even farmers. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s.

Tom Olson, owner of Eco Pedicab, pedals between 120 and 300 miles a week as he taxis people around Providence. Val Khislavsky pedals a three-wheeled cart with a food cooler to sell her homemade pudding pops. Urban farmers Tess Brown-Lavoie, Laura Brown-Lavoie, and Fay Strongin, of Sidewalk Ends Farm, and Than Wood, of Front Step Farm, use bicycles with special trailers to transport fresh grown produce to market and to local restaurants as well as compost materials to the farm.

The use of the bicycle permits an economical entry level into certain businesses with a green frame of mind.

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