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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[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

This guy bought a sailboat for ~$1k and crossed the pacific with it, without a motor:

https://invidious.no-logs.com/watch?v=yaki6QMzCmU

He said a motor & fuel just adds weight & more points of failure, and that the wind is never still for long. I was surprised that $1k sailboat is seaworthy.