April 22: Earth Day

History and more about Earth Day: https://www.earthday.org

Among the diverse, multiple benefits of bicycling are environmental benefits. And biking needn’t be all-or-nothing. Consider bike-and-ride options. Any mile of biking beats a mile of driving! Many people find that an e-bike or e-cargo bike allows to bike to destinations they formerly drove to.

Some related posts on the Bicycling Monterey site

• Climate Change: Why speak up for cycling
• Act on Climate: Monterey Bay Chapter, Climate Reality Project
• Bike to the beach, and care for what you love
• Bicycling and Earth Care—Where You Live and Where You Travel
• We’re all heroes on this bus
• From e-bike snob to “won me over.”
• When no one is looking, who cares about climate change?
• Climate change: Bicycling is part of the mix in climate hope
• Climate Change & Sustainable Business at the Sea Otter Classic Summit

Who’s the perennial pedaler above? That’s veteran Don Williams, photographed by Bicycling Monterey in April 2015, after we spotted him doing double-duty for Mother Earth: reducing carbon emissions by biking, and picking up litter in Monterey. Learn more about Don in Tom Leyde’s feature in the Monterey Herald, “Monterey’s clean-up Lizzard.”

Bicycling Monterey’s 15th anniversary is May 2024.  Click here for ways to contribute and FAQs.

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Below: The California State Senate recognizes that among bicycling’s environmental benefits is cleaner air.