
©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Sustainable energy meets sustainable protest in Brussels as hundreds of cyclists called for action to limit the damages of climate change.

©Barry Sandland/TIMB – “We are sounding the alarm”. Cyclists in protest to climate change
Structured as a Critical Mass ride, a swathe of cyclists, in the hundreds, ride through the city, showing (yet another) civil protest to the fossil heavy, car-dependent lifestyle that simply has to change.
And a bike friendly city design has to be created in order to bring substantial environmental change into our daily life. I mean, what embraces sustainable energy and transport better than a human-powered bicycle?

©Barry Sandland/TIMB – Temporary protest imprints at select locations.
The ride has become all the more urgent as we see a world where, with US President Donald Trump, fossil based energy companies are being set free to create their last great financial windfall – at any price.
And the TransCanada oil pipeline, assured to be the safest ever built by the TransCanada company, has spewed hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw oil into the Dakota soil.

Barry Sandland/TIMB – Hundreds of cyclists joined the mass ride that weaved through the city.