Is It Better to Bike?

Greening Up My Act

How much of an impact can you make on carbon emissions by choosing to ride your bicycle instead of driving? And is it always the best choice? Kat and Tiff put their bike helmets back on to discuss the pros and cons of being a bike commuter (or casual rider) in America.
Sources

• UCLA Transportation - How Riding a Bike Benefits the Environment - https://transportation.ucla.edu/blog/how-bike-riding-benefits-environment
• Bicycling for Beginners - REI - https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/getting-into-biking.html
• Is cycling safe? - Harvard News - https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/is-cycling-safe-in-many-cases-the-answer-is-no
• How Much Does a Bike Cost? - BuyCycle.com - https://buycycle.com/blog/en/post/how-much-does-a-bike-cost/
• Car, bike or motorcycle? Depends on where you live - Pew Research Center - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/16/car-bike-or-motorcycle-depends-on-where-you-live/

Secondary sources

• How being a cyclist is like being a woman - Kat Cox - https://medium.com/@pqhaattte/how-being-a-cyclist-is-like-being-a-woman-1abbeeeac118
• Cycling is bad for the environment - Velo by Outside Mag - https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/must-read-cycling-is-bad-for-the-environment/
• IRS Commuter Benefits - TRPC - chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.trpc.org/DocumentCenter/View/4213/IRS-Commuter-Benefits?bidId=#:~:text=%E2%80%9CQualified%20bicycle%20commuting%20reimbursement%E2%80%9D%20means,employee's%20residence%20and%20place%20of
• National Bicycling and Walking Study - US Dept of Transportation Federal Highway Administration - https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/case15.pdf (January 1993)

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Who are we? (00:02:30)

3. Sources (00:04:24)

4. What we mean when we talk about bikes (00:07:26)

5. What eco-friendly claims does bicycling make? (00:08:47)

6. Do these claims hold up? (00:20:56)

7. Interesting facts about bikes and cycling (00:23:15)

8. Does the earth-friendly message need to come back to earth? OR How cycling is like being a woman (00:25:08)

9. Tips and tricks from our biking experiences (00:36:44)

10. TLDR/Granola Rating (00:47:09)

11. Next week: Trains (00:49:05)