First of all, I’m no environmentalist by any means, I believe that helping the environment is a ’side effect’ of bike commuting. But lately I’ve been posing this question to myself and others: “What do you think about the environment and does it concern you?” The answer I get is: “Well, I recycle” but there’s [...]

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Yeah, I know…this is pretty late on a Tuesday for a “Green Tuesday” article, but I made it under the wire!
I hope everyone did something green and fun for their Earth Day celebrating — our family got to spend the day riding bicycles!

Early this morning, my wife decided that we should celebrate Earth Day by [...]

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I found a great at Entrepreneur.com about incentive programs that companies can take to lessen their carbon foot print.
Biking to and from the office is also gaining popularity: “We give out a bicycle to everyone who has worked at the company for at least one year,” says Bryan Simpson of New Belgium Beer in Fort [...]

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This week’s Green Tuesday post is really a simple reflection on urban design…
When I first started cycling for recreation, I felt my urban utopia would be a place with miles of smooth-as-glass roadway for my cycling pleasure - the ultimate and never-ending century ride if you will. In Phoenix, I certainly have miles of roadway, [...]

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Last week I started what will hopefully be a regular occurrence: the Green Tuesday post. It is good to know that there is a wealth of information out in the web-o-sphere and it would take a long time to sift through it all. In the meantime, I will continue to come across some really neat [...]

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In the 6 months that I have been bike commuting, I have driven about 1800 miles less than I would have otherwise, and spewed about 38,000 fewer pounds of CO2 into the earth’s atmosphere.

Whether we know it or not, we - the bike commuters - possess the mental and psychological seed of being environmentalists. Whether [...]

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