A Personal Challenge: Cycling At Least An Hour A Day For 10 Years

Written on 08/24 at 11:14 AM by Andy Posner 0 comments

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Al Gore’s Challenge Inspires My Thesis, and My Own Challenge
Al Gore recently challenged the U.S. to get 100% of its electricity from renewable energy within a decade. I was so excited and inspired by the challenge that I decided to switch my thesis topic in order to look at some of the issues raised by that challenge; specifically, I want to understand how to address the intermittence of renewable energy sources through geographic distribution, energy storage, smart grid technology and innovative demand side management.

Around the time that I read Al Gore’s challenge, I came across a completely unrelated article about a guy--Jim Langley, the former technical editor at Bicycling Magazine--who, in 1990, set a goal to ride his bicycle at least an hour a day for ten years. Not only did he meet his goal, but the streak is alive to this day. After I read that I thought to myself, hmm, wouldn’t it be interesting to spend the next 10 years devoting myself to meeting Al Gore’s challenge and eradicating poverty through my micro-credit initiative, while at the same time riding my bike at least an hour a day? And so it was that I decided to challenge myself to achieve the goal of riding an hour a day for 10 years. Hopefully by the time I have accomplished it the planet and human society will be as healthy thanks to clean, renewable energy that doesn’t impact global geopolitics as I will be from the riding. Read on to find out why I’m doing this and for details of the challenge.

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