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Elly Blue

Elly lives in Portland, Oregon and has been writing about bicycle transportation since 2006. Her work has appeared in Grist, Bitch, BikePortland, Momentum, and elsewhere. Her first book, Everyday Bicycling, came out in December, 2012. Her next full-length book, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save the Economy, comes out in December, 2013. Both books are published by Portland-based Microcosm.

Bikenomics: Bike Lanes on Main Street

By Elly Blue, Microcosm Publishing

Studies of the effects of bicycling on retail are still coming in, but they produce nearly unanimous results. One fact is clear: People who ride bicycles spend money.

  • October 1, 2013

Bikenomics: Whose Streets?

By Elly Blue, Microcosm Publishing

One of the biggest barriers to bicycling people report is simply access to a bicycle.

  • September 18, 2013

Local-food activist makes the farm-bike-sailboat connection

By Elly Blue, BikePortland

Jan Lundberg moved to Portland a year ago because it seemed like the best place to pursue his intersecting passions for food security, peak oil, bicycles, and sailing. These passions will be coming to fruition later this month when the oil analyst’s brainchild, the Sail Transport Network, will launch into its first major, ongoing local venture.

  • December 9, 2009
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