Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Crossing the Pacific? (self.solarpunktravel)

submitted 1 year ago by LilNaib to c/solarpunktravel

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We have lots of moral options for traveling over land, and even some options for relatively short oceanic trips, like across the Atlantic from W. Europe to/from N. America.

What are the current possibilities for traveling from e.g. USA to Taiwan? I'm willing to entertain options that don't have "mass market" appeal.

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[–] cerement 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

currently I think options are limited to sail and electric motors
- sail will have the same issue as airships, time – not an issue in a solarpunk future, but in today’s society, it’s a refuge of the rich since they’re the only ones who can afford the time
- solar powered electric motors and hybrid sail/electric systems are seeing a big surge in interest (especially with shipping companies trying to cut costs with fuel, maintenance, and logistics)
one of the more promising groups is Hundred Rabbits (a small artist/development collective heavily interested in the permacomputing side of things) who currently operated from of a solar-electric sailboat operating out of Vancouver (I think)

[–] LilNaib 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hadn't considered small boats but definitely should. Thank you for the link!

[–] activistPnk 1 points 1 year ago

Some crazies have been spotted using a solar powered electric motor with a diesel generator. Which is nuts. So they have the weight of an electric motor, a diesel engine, diesel fuel, and batteries, and copious points of failure.