{"id":3485,"date":"2008-09-10T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2008-09-10T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:05:10","slug":"moving-house-via-bike-seems-like-environmental-practical-friendly-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/moving-house-via-bike-seems-like-environmental-practical-friendly-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving House Via Bike Seems Like Environmental, Friendly Community Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Flipping through pages of the Internet the other day I ran across a group in Boulder, Colo., who moved their home goods via their bikes<\/a> — furniture, appliances, everything.<\/p>\n I know they aren’t the only ones<\/a> ever to have done it. (I searched a little more.) So now I’m curious to know how common this is among the bike commuting<\/a>, Earth-loving crowd.<\/p>\n My first thought upon seeing the string of photographs documenting the day was, “WTF?” And I mean that in the best way, because pretty soon after I thought, “That is so awesome!”<\/p>\n They put out the word, calling interested bike mover helpers and 11 showed up. I can only imagine the comradery, the exercise, the fun. They made four trips to get the whole apartment’s worth of life moved.<\/p>\n I mean, I hate to move. Hate. It. But I love learning about these sorts of people are out there.<\/p>\n It helps give me a sense of belief in humanity when so much of what surrounds us is negativity, especially right now with politics choking us morning, noon and night.<\/p>\n Have you ever participated in a bike move? Know anyone who has?<\/p>\n I’m curious to get thoughts and comments on… How did you set it up? What did you think of the effort? Would you ever do it again?<\/p>\n And I think it’s practically a tradition that when moving the typical way — friends, friends’ cars, U-Haul, etc. — that the day ends with friends getting beer, pizza <\/a>and beer.<\/p>\n Does that still apply for cyclists who have spent all day pushing the pedals and throwing furniture — and still, presumably, have a ride of however many miles to get back home at day’s end?<\/p>\n It’s all good. I’m just impressed by people’s resolve<\/a> sometimes, their willingness to live simply and call back to community activities of benefit.<\/p>\n In short, things that make time for productive human interaction away from modern “must-haves” such as cars, televisions and this computer I’m using to post this blog entry.<\/p>\n Related posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dollars and Sense: Calculating Money and Environmental Benefits of Bike Commuting<\/a><\/p>\n World Naked Bike Ride: Is Anything Gained By Protesting Oil Dependency in the Buff?<\/a><\/p>\n David Byrne Makes Art of the Bike Rack<\/a><\/p>\n Image: Axcordion<\/a>, via GNU Free Documentation License<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flipping through pages of the Internet the other day I ran across a group in Boulder, Colo., who moved their home goods via their bikes — furniture, appliances, everything. I [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[1216,1436,91,1437,1438,1355,68],"yoast_head":"\n