Doug Morgan has been a tireless advocate for “people powered” transportation since hearing a presentation 7 years ago on the childhood obesity epidemic ravaging our community. Although not having been on a bike for over 30 years, Doug “threw away” his car and began biking 20 miles to and from his office 5 days per week, 12 months per year. Conducting this “social experiment” on himself, he has come to the belief that biking and walking for everyday transportation is the surest, perhaps only, path to personal, environmental and community health.

Doug originated the bold “2 by 2012” goal which has been adopted by the City of Columbus, Consider Biking and several area companies and non-profits, and aspires for every central Ohio citizen to use a bike or other form of alternate transportation to get to work and school at least 2 days per month by the City’s bicentennial in 2012.

When he’s not advocating for biking, Doug practices law at Calfee, Halter & Griswold, a 100 year-old Cleveland based law firm, plays rock and roll with the Klatt Brothers Band and the Pep Boys, and moves and restores early 19th century houses and barns. Doug and his wife, Beth (who is known by most as Saint Beth for putting up with Doug), live in the Clintonville area where they met in 1st grade and have spent most of their lives. Beth and Doug have 3 mostly grown children: Brandon (28), a Wall Street investment banker, Kate (22), a recent graduate of Miami of Ohio and looking to work in the wellness field, and Corey (21), a chemical engineering major and member of the track and field team at The Ohio State University.

Doug currently serves on the Boards of Consider Biking, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Columbus Club. Doug was a founding board member of TechColumbus and formerly served as the Chairman of the Boards of the Franklin Park Conservatory and City Year Columbus.

You can follow Doug’s musings on biking and civilization on his blog at www.twowheeling.com.