Get With It, U.S. – Buy a Bike!

<strong>Roney JM. <a href="http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Bike/2008.htm">Bicycles Pedaling Into the Spotlight.</a> Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 2008.</strong>

J. Matthew Roney has written a timely article for Lester Brown’s Earth Policy Institute, detailing bicycle production worldwide. It is good news, but the U.S. is lagging far behind in the race.

<strong>An idea for 2009: hold off on nonessential auto purchases, and buy a bike instead.</strong>