Earth Day Ride

Meet at 6pm at the bicycle statue outside Deansgate Train Station for a ride around the city to celebrate the bike over cars.

Wear GREEN!!!!

The ride will go through our polluted roads to show how wondrous the roads would look if they were filled with bikes instead of cars...then we'll ride along some of our green cycleways to celebrate our fabulous green spaces in Manchester. Ending with drinks and fun!

Earth Day is celebrated around the world.

The 22nd of April, 1970, Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement. In September 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda.” "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked."

Five months before the first April 22 Earth Day, on Sunday, November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the rising tide of environmental events:

"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of observance of environmental problems...is being planned for next spring...when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...." Senator Nelson also hired Denis Hayes as the coordinator.

In Budapest last year 80, 000 cyclists rode on their Earth Day ride