It's really cool to see how many new inventions they needed to adapt it for operating in Ghana. Honestly wish we could make something like that work here.
That is so amazing! The second half really takes me back to my last Chicago to Emeryville trip. But I was never so brave to do coast-to-coast. My neck would be soooo sore by the end.
Hopefully using this for transcontinent flight will be the one use. Since we should be able to build electric high speed rail everywhere that we travel over land.
Canadian "Hack Club" sends 50 students on sustainable travel adventure aboard VIA Rail
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I would be stoked to get to join this trip as a kid.
Also the rooms are gonna be $300/night which is insane by my standards but I guess makes sense for a luxury hotel.
An actual fairly solarpunk hotel: low-carbon concrete, reclaimed fencing wood, mushroom "leather" tapestries.
The architecture is meant to resemble Colorado's famous Aspen trees.
Only bummer is they won't have all-vegan restaurants.
The Social Cost of Carbon Credits
Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.
That is absolutely amazing. And I think they said they've been using it for 10 years already!!! That is just the coolest thing ever. Can't wait to finish the whole video. I love Kirsten Dirksen.
Oh yeah, that's a bit too intense for me. I'm just trying to get the word out wherever I can lol.
Not sure exactly what the lemmy.world thing means, but yes this was me and my partner! Quebec was great!
A historic experience? Yes, and lots of fun.
I definitely preferred Montreal to New Orleans. Felt far more European (like having a decent Metro).
lol, it's more a statement about us (and I'd guess the average US resident) than about them.
Aspen cyclist embarks on 600-mile ride from Utah to Idaho to promote climate action and sustainable travel
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Starting on July 12, Jacquelyn Francis of Aspen will bike 600 miles from Utah to Idaho to inspire others to act on the climate
This sounds like a lovely travelog: New Zealand to Spain by train
A flight-free adventure between the UK and North Africa offers the romance of slow travel alongside the opportunity to get to know some of Europe’s most famous artists, finds Diana Jarvis
Haha, no I flew last in 2019. Did a 6 month tour in the US in 2021 and have just been doing more local tours or renting bikes since then. I'm planning on saving up and quitting work for a 3+ month journey around Europe in 5 years or so. That's the plan at least, we'll see whether life says otherwise ;)
I'm planning to fly transcontinental once every 8 years for the rest of my life, but I'm being pretty strict with myself for anything shorter than that and going train or bus. For me it's not exactly about the personal impact as much as doing it to make it easier for others in the future to do better. So every time I "suffer" a little because I take an extra day to travel by train/bus, I just think about how my doing it makes it more likely that train service with bikes will get easier for the next person to do the same thing. (Also I live in the US so most routes are much much harder than pretty much anywhere in Europe from what I hear.)
Totally amazing and the very most solarpunk way of doing it imho. Especially that really beautiful classic train getting the retrofit.
Walking and cycling are going to be prescribed by doctors.
The county has been selected to take part in an innovative trial
Beat the summer's soaring flight prices by taking one of these train journeys.
Two teenagers set off on a cycle trip around the world. It didn’t go according to plan
Adam Swanson was just 17 when he and his friend Henry left Minnesota on a two-year cycle trip around the world in 2021. Here’s what happened next.
Great idea! offering discounted hotel stays for train travellers
To encourage guests to travel more sustainably, the Hoxton is offering £20 off room rates for those who arrive by train
Imagine taking a long slow tour to visit and connect with all these solarpunk communities.
Article about how vacation destinations are getting worse thanks to global warming without mentioning that vacation travel is huge contributor to global warming...
Extreme heat is prompting tourists to rethink their plans.
Björn Bender envisions a ‘wonderful outlook’ for night trains and what it will take to get there.
The transformed Bristol Beacon, set to reopen in November this year, has unveiled a tie-up with First Bus, which will reward concert-goers for travelling sustainably to the venue in the city.
It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone likes to travel; and yet people say it, because, for some reason, they pride themselves both on having travelled and on the fact that they look forward to doing so.
The opposition team is small but articulate. G. K. Chesterton wrote that “travel narrows the mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson called travel “a fool’s paradise.” Socrates and Immanuel Kant—arguably the two greatest philosophers of all time—voted with their feet, rarely leaving their respective home towns of Athens and Königsberg. But the greatest hater of travel, ever, was the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, whose wonderful “Book of Disquiet” crackles with outrage:
I abhor new ways of life and unfamiliar places. . . . The idea of travelling nauseates me. . . . Ah, let those who don’t exist travel! . . . Travel is for those who cannot feel. . . .
It's strange that they didn't include the food offset by the ebike though. This link tries to give a comparison between the two accounting for a typical European diet (which is also far more sustainable than the typical American diet).
https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-environmental-impact/
A person riding a bike has to consume extra food to burn energy in their muscles to propel them. The energy has to come from somewhere. There are CO2 emissions associated with producing food.
A group of European consumer groups have launched an EU-wide complaint against 17 airlines for so-called “greenwashing” over their claims about making air travel more sustainable.
Imagine upping the size, running the vacuums on renewables and automating it though. You could distribute farm fresh veggies to the doorstep of everyone in an entire city. I think that'd be solarpunk as hell.
It sounds a lot like you want us to be silent so you don't have to think about it.
Most people intellectually understand that torturing and killing animals is wrong and they don't want to do it. But they can put it into the back of their minds unless the vegans in their life remind them of what they look like to us.
And personally, I firmly believe that getting those little reminders from my friends added up over years for me until I realized it was worth it to make the change.
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I do. People get uncomfortable for a second, but I feel like I have to remind them what their actions look like from my perspective. I've realized that if I don't make jokes, they just never think about it!
The challenge that isn't covered here is that the grandeur of Singapore is far far easier to achieve with authoritarian centralization than the anarchic style of solarpunk. And people are compelled by the grandeur of a large expensive project in different ways than the DIY scale.
So how can a ragtag group in SF or Berlin make something that captures imagination just as well as Singapore?
I'm a huge fan of the ebike for camping too. In 2021, I took a year off work to ebike around the US.
This weekend's adventure was low-key by comparison, just a 14 mile ride from downtown Madison, WI out to a county park campground.
If you're around Madison, WI I'm running group campouts now! Have one coming up this weekend and will do more over the summer.