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 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So then the question is, couldn’t the difference if $900 be spent in a way that more than offsets the emissions difference between a cargo ship and a flight?

I think that kind of question will end up being one of the main ones in figuring this out, thanks. My general plan right now is to drive to California in a vehicle running on restaurant waste vegetable oil, then take either a plane or container ship, and then once back home, just go nuts making as much biochar as possible.

I saw a Youtube video of a timelapse 10-day trip from Washington state USA to Japan, which is surprisingly decent.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw a Youtube video of a timelapse 10-day trip from Washington state USA to Japan, which is surprisingly decent.

Is that via cargo ship?

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

Yes, here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43hZVjeoD9k