Sure, Team Picnik is freezing through a drizzly and overcast Seattle May, and perhaps we’re more disgruntled about “Climate Change” than any “Global Warming” as such, but we’re still keen stewards of the environment here at Picnik, and wanted to express our enthusiasm for National Bike to Work Week (starting today the 12th to Friday the 16th). Of course, it’s easy for us to be enthusiastic, since of Team Picnik, 80% of us regularly walk, take public transport, drive a bio-diesel powered vehicle, or telecommute, and 7% — Brian — bicycles. As for the rest of us biking to work this month, well, Seattle’s a bit on the hilly side, and some of us would rather let the bus do all the work as we cheer Brian on from within the cozy embrace of Sound Transit.

Anyway, it’s cold outside.

But for those of you living in flatter, more thigh-friendly regions, we’d like to encourage you to take this opportunity to leave the car in the garage, tell your carpool to figure something else out, and feel the wind in your hair (or helmet — Picnik promotes safe riding!) during this week’s commute. For those of you for whom biking to work just isn’t feasible, or if you suffer the effects of Climate Change as much as we do, perhaps you can live the spirit of the week by using Picnik to edit and send a Picnik-powered egreeting! With no dead trees, no air miles, and a carbon footprint only as wide as the amount power you use to run your computer (which of course would be on anyway), using Picnik to edit your photos, apply awesome effects, personalize it with fantastic fonts, shapes and frames, and then email it off to anyone in the world (and try bicycling there, eh?) is truly an environmentally friendly way to share your fabulous photos.

Meanwhile, and maybe it’s just that Seattle is sunnier today, but several members of Team Picnik leaned their bikes up along side Brian’s today. Well done, everybody, and let’s hope the weather keeps on warming!

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