We all know that riding a bike is good for the environment, our health, and our pocketbooks, but here’s one more way it pays to bike – The Bicycle Commuter Tax Benefit.  You can get paid to bike to work.Â
Well, hop in the saddle because that is what many sustainable businesses across the nation are doing – becoming bike friendly businesses and paying their employees to commute by bicycle.  More than 500,000 American employees now work at

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Attempting to seize new opportunities and improve business sustainability, corporate leaders are looking for innovative solutions. Â In fact, research shows that innovation will be essential to both short-tem opportunistic value capture and longer-term business sustainability. Curiously, from where should these new ideas and innovative solutions originate? Â Who needs to be engaged in the process?
They say that Earth Day is everyday. Â At Taiga Company, we promote green cycling and to us, that means bike to work day is everyday too! Â Today is National Bike to Work Day in the US and across the world, trends indicate that biking and public transportation is up and driving is down. Â
Sustainability has been described as a continuous improvement process that challenges business to balance and align the shifting expectations of stakeholders with their optimal business sustainability direction.  While sometimes seen as an overwhelming landscape of potential improvement, a common thread of ‘collaboration’ can be seen through just about every potential business sustainability action. Â
Do you practice eco excellence? Â Â We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle