BIY, Bike-It-Yourself: Climate Ride
Climate Ride is looking for participants to raise money and awareness of climate change and hope for a future powered by renewable energy and a green economy. Proceeds from the ride from New York City to Washington, D.C. (September 20-24th) will go to Clean Air–Cool Planet and Focus the Nation
One of the main reasons that I became a bike commuter was for the environmental benefits. Once I started, I found there to be so many more personal benefits, from saving money to always being able to find a parking space to staving the tide of full-blown morbid obesity…that eventually the environmental benefits became a secondary motivator for me. Maybe I’ve gotten old, but these days I bike because I want to, not to save the world.
But that doesn’t mean that biking can’t still save the world. If you haven’t seen An Inconvenient Truth, rent it. It’s a good primer on a problem that isn’t going away unless we act. A big part of the problem is all of the junk that the cars that we drive spew into the atmosphere. Each time you ride your bike, you’re making a difference.
The Climate Ride will let you make even more of a difference by helping to raise awareness of the issue while putting your registration fees towards efforts at solving the problem on a larger scale. If you’re looking for a multi-day bike trip this fall, think about registering for this one.
Here’s a video of the fun they had last year when they visited Madison. I’m not sure if it is a coincidence that this video is set to local pro-bike band The Motor Primitives’ music or not.
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