05.19.08
Posted in Bike Commuting
by Mark at 10:41 pm
Another major publication, US News & World Report, published an article leading up to Bike-to-Work day about bicycles. This one was entitled 6 Myths About Commuting By Bicycle and included on their list is:
- It’s too dangerous
- It’s too far
- I’ll need an expensive bike
- It’s impossible to carry the stuff I need
- There’s nowhere to shower
- Biking will make me impotent
Of all the reasons I hear from people, #1 is certainly the most common. Is there anything else they should have had on their list? I have to admit, after reading the list, I went back and confirmed my suspicion that it was a male author; I doubt #6 would have made the cut otherwise!
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Posted in Advocacy, Bike Commuting, East Bay
by Margherita at 7:17 am
Inertia at the Top
Belated, Patchy Response Further Hamstrung By Inadequate Federal Attention, Experts Say
By Susan Levine and Lori Aratani
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 19, 2008; A01
The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades, young people in the United States got fatter and fatter — ate more, sat more — and nobody seemed to notice. Not parents or schools, not medical groups or the government.
But since the alarm was finally sounded in the late 1990s, the problem has been the country’s reaction: a fragmented, inchoate response that critics say has suffered particularly from inadequate direction and dollars at the federal level.
“The sense of this as a national health priority just doesn’t come through,” said Jeffrey P. Koplan of Emory University, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and chairman of the Institute of Medicine’s 2004 study of childhood obesity. The top recommendation of that seminal report was for the government to convene a high-level, interdepartmental task force to guide a coordinated response. No such body has been assembled.
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04.05.08
Posted in Advocacy, Bike Commuting, Bike-to-Work Day, Education
by sparkjen at 12:54 pm
In advance of National Bike to Work Week (May 12-16), the Sierra Club presents a workshop on how to effectively use your bicycle as transportation to and from work, school, or errands. From outfitting yourself and your bicycle, to safe riding practices and route planning, the evening promises to deliver timely and useful information.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Providence Bicycle, 725 Branch Ave., PVD
Free and open to the public.
Contact Maggie McCormick, dwyht@verizon.net, (401) 855-2103 for more info.
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