{"id":528,"date":"2017-04-19T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:03:02","slug":"from-the-web-save-the-planet-get-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/19\/from-the-web-save-the-planet-get-a-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Save the Planet &#8211; Get a Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-529\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM.png 1400w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-17-at-4.25.19-PM-500x276.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>A new book, <em>How Cycling Can Save The World<\/em>, argues that from improving public health to mitigating climate change, replacing cars with bikes could have an exceptionally large impact on the health of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Walker, political correspondent and contributor to <em>The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s bike blog, writes in his new book: Biking is not as unsafe as it seems, and it\u2019s often the fastest and most enjoyable way to get around.<\/p>\n<p>But Walker also takes it a step further. While he admits the title is a bit grandiose, he also tells<em> Fast Company<\/em> that it\u2019s not far from the truth. From eradicating health concerns linked to inactivity, to mitigating climate change, to boosting local economies and building community, biking, Walker says, is an integral part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40402512\/the-easiest-way-to-help-save-the-planet-get-a-bike\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via Fast Company) &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book, How Cycling Can Save The World, argues that from improving public health to mitigating climate change, replacing cars with bikes could have an exceptionally large impact on the health of the planet. Peter Walker, political correspondent and contributor to The Guardian\u2019s bike blog, writes in his new book: Biking is not as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/19\/from-the-web-save-the-planet-get-a-bike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Save the Planet &#8211; Get a Bike!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-8w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}