Joyride Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet

Name: Joyride Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet
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ISBN: 9781594857607

ISBN-10: 1594857601

ISBN-13: 9781594857607

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Mia Birk, Joe Kurmaskie

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Joyride tells the inspiring story of Birk's twenty-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With only table scraps of funding, Birk led a revolution that helped grow Portland, Oregon into the country's premier cycling city. She then hit the road, teaching communities how to incorporate cycling into their civic DNA to make their towns healthier, safer, and more livable. Through a panoply of hilarious and poignant stories, Birk takes readers on a rollercoaster journey of global and local discovery, while bringing into sharp focus some of the planet's most pressing and hotly debated energy and transportation issues, policies, shortcomings, and solutions. Her funny, touching, and…

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Mountaineers Books, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Joe Kurkaskie is the author of Metal Cowboy (Breakaway, 1999) and Riding Outside the Lines (Crown 2001).



Second Edition: The Making of Joyride


Foreword


Prologue: Nine Brothers in a Box



Training Wheels



Reality Check



Cleopatra Opens Her Eyes



Breaking Away



Go Like Hell



Build It and They Will Come



Wheel-and-Pony Show



Viva la Revolution!



Ask for Forgiveness



All News Is Good News



So, Sue Me Already



No Free Parking



Painting the Town Blue



Walk on Water



Bridge the Gap



The Devil's in the Details



Broken Glass



All Aboard!



The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back



Be the Bike



Plant Seeds and a Garden Will Grow



Slugfest



Cubicle Charm



Enjoy the Ride



Touching Souls



Let the Rain Come Down



Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance



Metal Cowgirls



Bike to the Future



Spreading the Love



Cockroaches



Biggest Bang for the Buck



Learning the Ropes



Hope in the Burbs



Sharrows



Bicycling Home



A Long and Winding Path



Imagine



Redemption in Blue, Part One



Redemption in Blue, Part Two



Boxes



The Gift



Patience and Faith



Joyride


Fifty Keys


Resources


Q&A with Mia Birk


Acknowledgments