{"id":76,"date":"2016-03-29T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:40:06","slug":"bike-trip-inspires-environmentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/2016\/03\/29\/bike-trip-inspires-environmentalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Trip Inspires Environmentalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Stelzer, 45 originally from Toronto, is pictured here at her workplace, Envirocentre on Rideau Street. Behind her is her Envriocentre cart that she pulls behind her bike each day travelling to work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jen Stelzer has been passionate about biking ever since she quit her job at 25 to bike from Vancouver to Mexico with her then-boyfriend, who she later ended up marrying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a 3,600 kilometre trip. We camped and basically slept outside most of the time, I had about three pairs of underwear, one T-shirt and two pairs of shorts, so pretty light packing,\u201d she remembered with a laugh. Her six-week cycling trip is what inspired her to pursue a career as the coordinator of sustainable transportation for Envirocentre where she encourages Ottawa citizens to bike to work.<\/p>\n

Twenty years since her first trip, she\u2019s biked all around the world \u2013 from London to Scotland as well as around New York City and Los Angeles. \u201cMy favorite place I\u2019ve biked is New York City because I was so surprised! I thought it would be an awful place to ride my bike but it was a great place to ride my bike\u201d. She has fond memories of the amazing people she\u2019s met and places she\u2019s seen, explaining that \u201c[the trip] made me realize that that\u2019s the way I want to see the world. In a car you see something cool and then it\u2019s gone but on a bike you can stop wherever, whenever\u201d.<\/p>\n

Author: Laura Atherton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jen Stelzer has been passionate about biking ever since she quit her job at 25 to bike from Vancouver to Mexico with her then-boyfriend, who she later ended up marrying. \u201cIt was a 3,600 kilometre trip. We camped and basically slept outside most of the time, I had about three pairs of underwear, one T-shirt… <\/p>\n

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