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. See From e-bike snob to “won me over”: Pedaling Monterey County with a boost-on-demand from e-assist.

Some related posts on the Bicycling Monterey site

• Bicycling and Earth Care—Where You Live and Where You Travel
• We’re all heroes on this bus
• Climate Change & Sustainable Business at the Sea Otter Classic Summit
• When no one is looking, who cares about climate change?
• Climate change: Bicycling is part of the mix in climate hope
• Bike to the beach, and care for what you love

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 13th anniversary is May 1, 2022.  Click here for ways to contribute and FAQs.
• The Monterey County Weekly asked Bicycling Monterey’s founder to write an Earth Day story about how the HER Helmet Thursdays project—which celebrated its 12th anniversary in November 2021—got started. Did you miss that April 2010 story? See “Wheel the Earth: HER Helmet Thursdays cuts carbon emissions and costs.”
• Below: The California State Senate recognizes that among bicycling’s environmental benefits is cleaner air.