Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save the Economy (If We Let It) - Softcover

Blue, Elly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621060039 ISBN 13: 9781621060031

Publisher: MICROCOSM PUBLISHING, 2014

Synopsis

Bikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. Bicycle transportation is good for a lot of things: it's healthy, it's green, it's quiet, it's fun and it builds community. It also makes financial sense and the magnitude of bicycling's economic impact gets far less attention than it deserves. In Bikenomics, Elly Blue explores the scope of that impact, from personal finance to local economies to the big picture of the national budget.

About this title

Review:

"It's a call to action, pointing out multiple ways that dollars currently spent in the service of the car can better better spent to serve people. She makes her case clearly and both passion and data inform the book. [...] This small book is an inspiration to step away from the automobile and to bicycle forward into a quieter, brighter, better world." --Kent Peterson, Kent's Bike Blog

"Blue's approach is down-to-earth, practical, and kind." --Sarah Goodyear, "The Atlantic Cities"

"Blue's book is rational, fully footnoted--and, in the main, persuasive." --Ben Schiller, "Fast Company"

"Blue's book helped me better frame my own reasons for riding, and got me thinking a lot about what a more bike-centered future could look like. It's a future, I realized, I'd really like to see." --Dick VanderHart, "Portland Mercury"

"Blue isn't talking about 'fixing' the economy we have right now. Instead, she's talking about looking to a different future." --A.K. Streeter, treehugger.com

About the Author:

Elly Blue is an author and activist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She writes about the economic and equity cases for bicycle transportation.

About this edition

• Publisher: MICROCOSM PUBLISHING
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1621060039
• ISBN 13: 9781621060031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192