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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Article about how vacation destinations are getting worse thanks to global warming without mentioning that vacation travel is huge contributor to global warming... (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

so many other factors to throw in as well – not getting enough vacation time to be able to use anything other than airplanes – the realization on the last day just how pointless the job you’re going back to is …

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's a hugely relevant point, especially in the US. It's so much longer, and not cheaper either, to travel by rail for farther trips and planes keep winning out on the convenience factor because we don't get enough vacation time for a 3 day amtrak ride.