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:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← 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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Why I love my ebike! the most sustainable form of travel on the planet (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ebikes + renewable energy is more efficient even than a human riding a traditional bike! The energy has to come from somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think this is true. Ebikes are actually not very sustainable: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again/

But if it replaces a car, it is still very nice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it is reasonable to ignore food, since it will be more or less equal to the energy you would spend exercising in other ways (jogging, gym, ...). Especially when commiting in a city (<10km).

But your link still shows a nice overview when taking that into account specifically!