Engage Our Cities

Read a LA Times blog about a symposium called "Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around". The author wrote something that I thinks nails the exact needed change in our thinking if we are to avoid environmental catastrophe in the years to come: "What all the speakers kept coming back to was a certain notion of engaged citizenship, that on bikes, or on foot, we had to interact with the city directly, rather than from the air-conditioned distance of our cars." We must interact with our cities more. That means walking or biking to the local corner grocer or bakery instead of driving five miles to a strip mall or MegaMart. Read the post here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/10/david-byrne.html