From earlier this year, a profile of Portland’s Earl Blumenauer whose mission is to create a sustainable society and do so with bicycles.
“We have been flogging this bicycle thing for 20 years … All of a sudden it’s hot.”
Cycling is hot and David Byrne will talk about “seeing the world from the seat of a bike” at a release party for his new book, the Bicycle Diaries, on September 30th.
Bike Portland has for the details.
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If he’s “kicking of” (per Bike Portland) his book tour in Portland on September 30, then the September 28 event at Seattle’s Town Hall must just be a dress rehearsal?
http://www.lectures.org/specialevents2009-10.html#byrne
PS his show at the Paramount in June SOOO rocked!
We picked the story up from Bike Portland and that’s great news he’s in Seattle first!