Why not a Bicycle Museum? Or first, a major human-powered exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, with extensive histories and pictures from around the world on how people traveled and still travel under their own power? How a half-billion Chinese cyclists helped build the economic juggernaut that is China today, The bicycle's part in the Women's Suffragette Movement, Documentary of the first human-powered flight by Paul MacCready’s Gossamer Condor on IMAX; MIT Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson's Bicycle Science, His record-breaking recumbent Avatar 2000 in actor Christopher Walken’s film Brainstorm, Human-powered design competitions, And, memories of early years in Nigeria; Bamboo Bicycle Project by David Ho, Columbia Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Research Scientist, Gil Peñalosa's lecture on Bogota and Cyclovia, Jan Gehl on Copenhagen, Amsterdam today Janette Sadik-Khan about converting New York City to serious bicycle transportation Team this up with the city's own version of Bogota's Cyclovia as NYC’s GreenUp car-free Sundays and the announcement that we have thrown down the gauntlet to take lead in the charge against climate change (and not to mention couch potatoism) with the inauguration of our cycle track network extended to this town’s outer limits providing regional connectivity to the world’s third largest economy speeding the transition to congestion pricing, great health, prosperity, and the future of life in this city and on this planet. Pictures and documentary by the Smithsonian. A NOVA documentary. Sponsored in part, by a coincidently proposed hybrid human-electric division of General Electric's Ecomagination. And, if it gets really big, we can see if Ken Burns wants to do something.
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