Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth day.  Remember, earth is not just were we keep our stuff, its also the only planet we can live on.  You were going to anyway, but in case you needed motivation, bikes are in fact good for the environment.

If you are a young person, you can expect to live long enough to experience the very real and very negative effects of climate change.  If you are in your 20-30’s right now you may very well live to see the total collapse of the ecosystems ability to support human civilization.  You will spend your silver years in a nightmare hellscape of droughts, floods, wars for resources, and the steady decline of all the things you love and hold dear… or we can make dramatic and cost effective changes to the way we power our civilization now, and you can live our your elder years in something resembling a normal future.

Those are your two choices, the science is in, the debate is over.  Either doom yourself and your children to a world of increasingly erratic and destructive weather patterns, or fight hard for changes now so that we can bend the curve of dangerous climate change.  A great first step towards this more normal future is to ride your bike.  Stop using your car, stop burning fossil fuels, and take a very real step towards protecting the future for yourself and your children.

Happy earth day!

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Beyond The Greenway Ride: Earth Day Bike Ride

Saturday, April 26, Beyond the Greenway Ride (for Earth Day) 10:00 am, Fowl Meadow parking lot on Brush Hill Road just south of the Neponset Valley Parkway, just east of Paul’s Bridge and the Boston/Milton border.

We’ll head the opposite direction from last month,following Burma Road to the Bridge to Nowhere, then going south on beautiful Elm St. in Canton, ending with views of the Blue Hills and Boston from The Trustees of Reservations’ new Signal Hill Reservation. It’s not a very long ride, around 10 miles, but the first couple of miles are off-road through the Fowl Meadow section of the DCR’s Blue Hills Reservation.

Hybrid or mountain bikes are recommended, though Burma Road has a hard enough surface that it has been ridden with skinny tires. Helmets are required.

The ride is cosponsored by MassBike’s Metro Boston Chapter, the Boston Natural Areas Network, an affiliate of The Trustees of Reservations and the NGO force behind the Neponset Trail, and the Neponset River Watershed Association, which works to protect and restore the Neponset River.

If it’s muddy, we’ll take Rt. 138 in at least one direction, which would add a mile each way. We could also walk Burma Road, if it’s not *that* muddy. It would be nice to get back to the start in time to make the 1:30 talk about local impacts of climate change at the Arnold Arboretum.

If it is raining hard, we won’t ride at all. There is no rain date set, but contact me about another date.

There is more information at

http://www.masspaths.org/rides/SignalHill2008.html

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