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? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by LilNaib@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net

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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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[–] LilNaib@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally I think that although container ships are indeed polluting and nasty, traveling on one shouldn't be measured against flying, as airplanes only fly to transport human passengers, without whom they would not fly. Meanwhile, traveling via container ship is more akin to using someone else's waste product since the reason for the container ship making the journey is to deliver non-human cargo, and a few passengers using some spare corner space is just a bonus. I've looked into this option and will look again. Also will look into smaller boats, thanks.

Another option is to 1000x my biochar production to offset emissions.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

this video made the rounds a few years back: 30 Days Timelapse at Sea (Piped)

EDIT: Michael Palin did his version of Around the World in 80 Days – episode 6 “Far East and Further East” has him crossing the Pacific on a container ship

[–] LilNaib@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

this video made the rounds a few years back

Wow! This world is beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.