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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.
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This looks like a really extra beautiful slow travel bicycle travelogue in Sweden, taking the train from the UK. Very jealous and want to try this out smeday if ever get to travel to Europe again.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/slow-travel-cycling-lake-sweden
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Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane
(www.theguardian.com)
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I collect transit cards from all the places I visit, and I just filled up my first display case! Looking forward to the next 20; what transit systems do you think I should try next?
EDIT: the transit agencies on display:
Luleå, Sweden (card missing, I didn't know at the time that I would want to collect them)
Stockholm, Sweden
Go-to card, Twin Cities of Minnesota
Ventra card, Chicago, Illinois
Breeze card, Atlanta, Georgia
Smartrip card, Washington DC
Orca card, Seattle, Washington
Hop fastpass, Portland, Oregon
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
La Crosse, Wisconsin
COTA, Columbus, Ohio
mykey, Indianapolis, Indiana
Citibus, Davenport, Iowa
Winona, Minnesota
Corpus Christi, Texas
Smart Ride, St Cloud, Minnesota
Paul Bunyan Transit, Bemidji, Minnesota
Tri-CAP, rural central Minnesota
Rainbow Rider, rural western Minnesota
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One frequent flyer described flying to Hawaii for just 90 minutes in order to accrue tier points: “Seven of the other people in the front cabin were all doing the same thing as me – flying just to get their status"
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This string quartet (Vulva Voce) is super inspiring. They've decided to do their tour more sustainably by using train travel instead of jet for their European tour.
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The Hydrogen Stream: Scientists see iridium as obstacle to hydrogen aviation
(www.pv-magazine.com)
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Proud to be featured in David Byrne's "Reasons to be Cheerful" newsletter for our sustainable travel tour by solar ebike last year.
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Proud to be featured in David Byrne's "Reasons to be Cheerful" newsletter for our sustainable travel tour by solar ebike last year.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/solarpunk-regenerative-travel-ecofriendly-bicycles/
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Italy To Launch New Tourist Trains To Promote Sustainable Travel In 2024
https://www.travelandleisureasia.com/in/news/italy-special-tourist-train-sustainable-travel/
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Bhutan understands the beauty of slow travel so much, they've made an exemption on their tourism fees if you stay long enough.
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Bhutan understands the beauty of slow travel so much, they've made an exemption on their tourism fees if you stay long enough.
https://www.afar.com/magazine/bhutan-decreases-visa-fee-for-longer-term-stays
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My husband and I got married earlier this year and figured we would plan a honeymoon later once wedding stress had passed. Now we've started planning and being in the Midwestern United States has us feeling frustrated about travel options that aren't planes, as we do not want to use them.
I discovered the Amtrak Rail Pass yesterday and was wondering if anyone had any experience (or knows of a blog, vlog, etc) where somebody talked about their experience using the pass to do a city-hopping sort of trip/honeymoon/vacation using Amtrak, or the pass specifically. Cursory research didn't show me anything, but I did see that the pass was on sale from $499 to $299 in January, so I am going to keep an eye out and see if they do that again. If so, it seems like a (relatively) cost-effective way to do a longer sort of trip, hitting 6 or so cities along the way.
Any perspectives welcome!
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Wow, this looks like a really beautiful way to slow travel 😍
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-ideas/abroad/a44090237/slow-travel-north-spain-ferry/
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