Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet

integrate bicycling into daily life. With only table scraps of funding,

Birk led a revolution that helped grow Portland, Oregon, into the

country's premier cycling city. She then hit the road, teaching

communities how to incorporate cycling into their civic DNA to

make their towns healthier, safer, and more livable. Through a

panoply of hilarious and poignant stories, Birk takes readers on a

rollercoaster journey of global and local discovery, while bringing

into sharp focus some of the planet's most pressing and hotly

debated energy and transportation issues, policies, shortcomings,

and solutions. Her funny, touching, and instructive Joyride offers

hope and experienced how-to advice to anyone interested in

changing our world for the better one pedal stroke at a time.