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   We stand on the edge of a new frontier... a frontier of 
   unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled
   hopes and threats... The frontier of which I speak is not 
   a set of promises - it is a set of challenges."  
                  John F. Kennedy   
                  35th president of the USA

                    * 139 Days 'Till Ride *
                    * 215 Days 'Till Rally *

       Our ride site: http://www.bikeroute.com/NBG2000

1)   About today's quote
2)   Petitions: Our Number one Priority
      http://www.bikeroute.com/NBG2000/NBGPetitionStore.html
3)   Need Bike Events calendar
4)   Sit with petitions at bike events
5)   Petition Addresses Will NOT be shared � Noted at site 
6)   Mike Hernandez getting Santa Cruz Council behind us
7)   Peter Clairot may lead LA-DC Winning route riders
8)   Florida Tour Calendar Plugs us in
9)   Mark Brunson making lots of noise in FL
10) Dale Lally�s Killer news release
11) Lori Yung comes through 
12) James Blythe delivers Boulder bike shops for us
13) We still need anchor bike shops for........
14) John Hamilton find USA Today, People Magazine
15) Who will load Allegheny Trail Alliance to interactive DB
16) Notre Dame Professor may build Indy to DC group 
17) WorldWide Critical Mass links us
      http://michaelbluejay.com/cm/
18) Power on cycling links us
      http://www.PowerOnCycling.com/
19) NBG training ride Sunday 1/23 
20) Get yourself in the news for the NBG! Please!!
21) Who will post to Usenet news with us?
22) Karl Laucher to feature NBG rider David Sealey
23) Skot Pascal may lead 6/18 Santa Cruz to DC
24) Paradise finds Boston to DC leader
-     Welcome new sign-ups and how to reply
-     Getting your non-email friends signed up
-     How you got on this list
-     How to get off of this list
-     Enviro Alert (Milanese leave cars at home)
-     Important NBG Links
-     Closing Quote

1) Paul Jones, my cousin�s husband and the principal of a much awarded
high school in northern California sent me Kennedy�s now famous words
above. They were spoken at a time, back in the early 60�s, when most of us
here were children or not even born yet. And yet they are as applicable
now as they were back then.

Since that time, we have proven our total dominance of the land, the sea
and the sky, explored much of the moon, even outer space and made war
obsolete by building enough armaments to destroy the entire world many
many times over. And yet in doing so, we have created a whole new set of
challenges that a whole new generation of people must effectively deal
with.

Luckily, there are many in this world who feel called to action by an
intuition that something is desperately wrong. This can be witnessed by
the proliferation of environmental groups that are springing up to combat
every thing from deforestation and  wetland destruction to the loss of
wildlife and marine life and the development of open space, etc. 

In acting on an inner listening, as crusaders for the environment, those
of us NBG  are also doing our part to heal the planet. In the now, we are
calling into question the air, water and noise pollution that results from
all too many unnecessary car trips. And in time, our network of bicycle
highways will encourage a large percentage of Americans to get out of
their gasoline activated armchairs.

As we usher into actual reality a better network of roads and pathways
upon which we can use our own bodies to move, we will also be cleaning up
our own personal ecologies. And as exercise causes us to want those more
wholesome, organic foodstuffs which heal us,  we also heal the planet
itself. 

In addition to feeling physically better, while healing the earth at the
same time, by not being separated from one another by glass and metal and
plastic, we will feel better about all those with whom we share the world.
And as we also reconnect with nature, the inter-connectedness we will feel
with all of life will not permit the kind of reckless slaughter of the
animal and plant kingdoms  that our present lifestyles look the other way
from today.

Could the new frontier to which Kennedy referred be one in which bicycles
(and other forms of human powered mobility) and not cars predominate the
landscape? We here at the NBG think so and have accepted the challenge of
making this a reality as the words ahead communicate.

              For details on the above topics (as well as past issues) go to:
                             http://www.cyclery.com/lists/nbg/

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               M a r t i n   K r i e g       
               Attacking with Love         
      Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor  
    '79 & '86 TransAm Vet, "Awake Again" Author
   TransAm w/us in 2000: http://www.BikeRoute.com
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