End Global Warming Bicycle Tour / Ohio 2006

• *For a month, our family of five traveled Ohio on bicycles.  No support vehicle, just a message.  I told the Chronicle Telegram newspaper that if a family of five can do this, someone can ride a bicycle (or walk) the mile to the store.  To end global warming, we have to change our paradigm -- and we have to sacrifice.
•      I told the Wellington Enterprise newspaper that the U.S. has 5% of the world population and pumps 21% (highest of any country) of the carbon dioxide into the sky.  During a talk on Environmental Stewardship to Wellington's First Methodist Church, I said if our energy gluttony here is causing death elsewhere (super charged hurricanes, drought, famine...), aren't we indeed breaking the 5th Commandment:  Thou Shall Not Kill.
•      In Jelloway, Ohio, we met with Mark Hedge.  His home is totally off the grid because of an array of solar panels he's installed.  Our administration would tremendously ramp up the push for  more alternative energy like this.  (See our Energy Policy.)
•      I told the Mt. Vernon (OH) News that my wife and I were running (and bicycling) for president as "concerned parents" who don't want to leave a world of global warming, acid rain and ozone holes for our children.  What parent would?