Cities

Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity

  • November 18, 200910:55 am PST
  • + responses
biking-obesity-header

The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a car. Are those numbers correlated? Could we help reduce our societal weight gain by encouraging more commutes by bike or foot? Our latest Transparency is a look at the number of active commutes in several countries, as compared to those countries obesity rates.

A collaboration between GOOD and Lamosca.

Read more