{"id":5792,"date":"2014-08-14T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:28:17","slug":"man-behind-copenhagenization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2014\/08\/14\/man-behind-copenhagenization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind Copenhagenization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There\u2019s someone out there making space for bikes, making it easier to commute by bike and thinking up ways of making it all safer, but who is he? Allow us to introduce Mikael Colville-Andersen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mikael is the man behind the copenhagenize.eu website. However, as he himself explains, he is not some sort of eco-warrior, &#8220;Environmentalism is the biggest marketing bubble in the history of mankind. They say: Start saving the planet now! I couldn\u2019t give a monkey\u2019s about that. 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