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.
Share with others: Act on Climate – 4-to-a-pg mini fliers – BikeMontereyDOTorg
Below: The California State Senate recognizes that among bicycling’s environmental benefits is cleaner air.




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