It's not enough to ride your bike

I just read this incredible article by Derrick Jensen called "Forget Shorter Showers," and I feel that it's particularly relevant to our class and our emphasis on active solutions that engage the community, not just our own individual selves. Certainly we've discussed multiple times the political power that you wield when you ride a bike or choose the bus or walk when others might drive because of what you're representing and demonstrating to others... but that alone is not enough to solve the enormous environmental problems we face. There has to be more.

Read this article, and please let me know what you think. If there's enough interest, we can talk about this on Friday. It's hard to accept what he's saying, but he's right. It's not enough to just ride your bike or encourage others to be more sustainable and ride their bikes. Further action to challenge the system head on is required. Let that fuel your project's momentum forward and seek ways to charge your project with this spirit of engaging and battling the system, not just advocating for carbon emissions reductions per mile.

"More than 1,000 London Cyclists Stage Die-In to Call for Greater Road Safety" (Inhabitat)