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Video Transcript: Taking Your Bike Makes a Big Difference

Transcript copyright earththrives.com Chris Mason: Massachusetts drivers annually produce 24 million tons of carbon monoxide.  That’s the equivalent of filling up 24 million blimps every year upon every year upon every year– comes out of our tail pipes of our cars and into the air–is causing our world to warm up and the climate to change.  James Lowenth: Every gallon of gas burned in a car causes about 20 pounds of CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere. So I figure by not driving...

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Video Transcript: The Gas Money Jar

Transcript copyright earththrives.com Beth:  One day a week I pick the boys up at the school. I would always walk over there.  It’s about a half mile from where I teach over to their school, and I would walk. The days I showed up, Eliot would say as soon as he saw me–just frown and grown and moan and complain at me–and I was just tired of it. So I said I am not the only one who’s going to walk and pick them up. So I got Garrett to say, “Okay,  yeah, we can walk.”  So we walk home...

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Video Transcript: Ride Your Bike the Way You’d Drive Your Car

Transcript copyright earththrives.com Gina:  I took a bike safety course.  The most important things that I took away from the class was being confident on the road and not being scared of cars. If you are in a place with a lot of cars on the road and you’re very clear about what you’re doing and you drive your bike as if you would drive your car and follow the rules of the road then they know to expect. James:  A couple of very important rules on the road: very, very simple rules of the road...

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Video Transcript: Good Talks While Riding with My Kids

Transcript copyright earththrives.com Gina:  One of the things I like best about riding my bike with my children because they seem to have so much fun riding and I really have to talk to them on the ride. Things we notice as we ride along–the cars, the people, the smells–that we would completely miss if we were in a car. (They get ready to go for a bike ride.) Gina: How are your brakes? Son: They're fine. Gina: Yours seem to be ok. Youngest son: That’s because of last time when...

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Enjoy the Ride

Several of our clips: Sweet Rewards: The Gas Money Jar, Taking Your Bike Makes a Big Difference Ride Your Bike the Way You’d Drive Your Car Good Talks Riding with my Kids are excerpts from Enjoy the Ride, a film produced, directed, and edited by Paul Hake, Carlyn Saltman, and Scot Broderick of Franklin County, MA. For more information, visit Enjoy The Ride By Bike. DVD’s of Enjoy the Ride are available from the Office of Transportation Planning at the Franklin Regional Council of...

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