From beginning to end it is 42 miles for great fun. Thanks to Patrick Bertagna, the CEO of GTX Corp http://www.gtxcorp.com/?q=/about/ceos_message and John Brennan, the CEO of My Athlete http://www.myathletegps.com/index.html I can prove the usefulness of this fine technology. You will be able to track our progress by the minute (and see just out of shape I am while I drag about 300 LBS around 65 miles yes my son will be peddling......some!)
“If I was Japan’s worst enemy trying to figure out a strategy to drive it into a crisis in 10 years’ time, my strategy would be to get the Japanese to do exactly what they are doing, which is to over-harvest their main source of protein.”
“There is a parallel based on the same fundamental mechanisms of the economic collapse that we’re seeing now and the collapse of past civilisations such as the Maya,”
only those societies able to stamp out unsustainable habits – over-logging, overspending, over-extension – have the ability to survive
“When people talk about the greater efficiency of dictatorships, they are forgetting that a dictatorship is no more likely than a democracy to make a wise decision,”
“If we continue to operate non-sustainably, then in 50 or 60 years, the US and Japan and Europe will be in bad shape. But my friends in the highlands of New Guinea will be fine. Some of my friends made stone tools when they were children and they could just go back to what their ancestors were doing for 46,000 years. New Guinea highlanders are not doomed,”
“The first world lifestyle will be doomed if we don’t learn to operate sustainably.”