Why Bike?

I bike to school daily because:
I bought Schwinn varsity, a road bike ($150 savings from not buying the parking tag)
I will buy a fancy squash racket at the end of the year($300; savings from gas)
I will contribute 6000lbs less carbon dioxide to the environment
I will save roughly 50% of my time at gym
I will sketch/paint/read/or whatever more
You may very well ask, why not just walk to the school you moron? I will! Next year. That's me, semi-cynical.

Eat Local

If you are concerned about the environment then read on: Last week's issue of Time had an interesting article about a man's struggle to decide whether to eat food thats produced locally or to eat organic food that had 'fossil fuel mileage' on it. For most of you it may be 'why on the god's green earth should I be worrying about where I get my food from'? In the first place, the conventional food that we get in our local grocery stores is typically sprayed with loads of pesticides that of course, USDA says are within the permissible limits. Heck! who knows for sure? 10 years down the road they will come with new set of regulations that will make the present limits look ridiculous! Anyway the point is you dont want any god-damn chemicals in your food. And this is where the 'Organic Revolution' comes in. But how organic is 'Organic'? These days, the organic food producers have huge corporate style of working: big money, big farms, big distributors, and so on. I have switched to buying organic food for a while now. But I never paid attention to where that food was coming from. To my surprise, everything is produced outsided KS and they travel thousands of miles before reaching my freezer. On the other hand, you have the option of buying food at your local farmer's market that has everything fresh from the fields. But wouldn't they as well use chemicals to get a better yield and make more bucks? I dont know. But I prefer buying from local farmers than buying at the 'local-but-not-local-grocery-chain-stores'. And I decided to buy at 'Rythu Bazaar'!