Cycling for a Sustainable Future Tour this Saturday

[Going Green]

“Cycling for a Sustainable Future Tour”

Featuring Jim Merkel author of

Radical Simplicity

 

Two speaking engagements in Montpelier

this Saturday, April 11^th

                                                    

 

The Cycling for a Sustainable Future Tour is coming to Montpelier on Saturday, April 11^th.  This tour-de-force covers 350 people-powered-miles through Montpelier, the North East Kingdom, Burlington and the Adirondacks arriving for the North Country Sustainable Energy Fair in Canton, NY.

 

This year the tour members are: Jim Merkel, Susan Cutting, S. Tyler Durham and Ross Scatchard.  Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, suggests dozens of Yankee-practical lifestyles steps that lighten footprints and also lighten the heaviness of a world going sour.

 

Jim and the rest of his tour will be speaking in Montpelier at two venues:

 

• April 11^th, 4:30-6:00 PM.  Jim Merkel will read from Radical Simplicity -- Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, Bear Pond Books, 77 Main St., Montpelier, VT 05602 (802) 229-0774

 

• April 11^th,  7:30-9:00 PM. Radical Stimulus, Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Montpelier, VT (802) 229-6307.  

The group will be traveling 350 miles urging humanity to lower carbon emissions to the safe upper limit of 350 parts-per-million. In 12 towns along the way, they will offer presentations about Transition Towns, Locavores, simple living, Your Money or Your Life and more, and they will pass on news about the exciting sustainability efforts in your region.   At the interactive Radical Stimulus events, participants will become ‘visionaries’ of possible sustainable futures, and presenters will offer tools to measure progress and discuss examples that deliver deep levels of footprint reduction and financial savings. From vision to action, witness the birth of a sustainable culture where low-impact becomes ‘default.’”

Their emphasis will be on the practical steps you can take--right now--to both lighten your footprint and brighten your life.

 

Since 1996 the Cycling for a Sustainable Future Tours have covered over 17,000 miles. The tour is being sponsored: the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club, Ibex, D Acres, The Global Living Project and the UVM Office of Sustainability.