Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy | Experience Life
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This book’s subtitle is a vast understatement: Author Elly Blue believes bicycles can also save us from healthcare woes, global warming, the energy crisis, community disintegration, and maybe much more. She’s not alone: As H.G. Wells is believed to have stated about a century ago, “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.” Bikenomics isn’t sci-fi, however. Nor is this fun and fluffy beach or bedtime reading. Blue details and itemizes the bicycle’s super-hero potential in well-reasoned, well-researched prose. Blue is a writer and bicycle activist living in Portland, Ore., whose writing has appeared in The Guardian , Grist , Bicycling , and Bitch magazine, among other publications. She blogs about bicycling and empowerment at TakingtheLane.com . With Bikenomics , she’s written a community manifesto, summed up in her maxim: “The bicycle may not be able to save either the economy or the world that we have now. But it is one means by which w