On Yer Bike, St. Andrews House, Edinburgh

The Changeworks team joins in with a Climate Change rally, on Wednesday 11th January.

Earlier that day, a few of us had set off from the office, gathering more members as we ascended to the top of one of Edinburgh's many hills, where the feeling of excitement was palpable. Cyclists ruling the roads! After it was over, in an entourage of some fifty bikes, I cycled my way past kowtowing buses and courteous car drivers while deep in conversation with a green consultant whom I had just met at a set of traffic lights.

As we wheeled along a pedestrianised Princes Street, it was hard not imagine we were living in some futuristic version of Scotland, where people greeted one another when the traffic paused, with smiles rather than scowls. If only for a brief moment, it was easy to entertain the fantasy that Edinburgh could someday follow cities like Amsterdam, where in the transport triangle it is the car that comes bottom of the heap.

- Al