The county has been selected to take part in an innovative trial
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Beat the summer's soaring flight prices by taking one of these train journeys.
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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.
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To encourage guests to travel more sustainably, the Hoxton is offering £20 off room rates for those who arrive by train
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Björn Bender envisions a ‘wonderful outlook’ for night trains and what it will take to get there.
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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.
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It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
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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. . . . Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to move around to feel.
If you are inclined to dismiss this as contrarian posturing, try shifting the object of your thought from your own travel to that of others. At home or abroad, one tends to avoid “touristy” activities. “Tourism” is what we call travelling when other people are doing it. And, although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.
One common argument for travel is that it lifts us into an enlightened state, educating us about the world and connecting us to its denizens. Even Samuel Johnson, a skeptic—“What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country,” he once said—conceded that travel had a certain cachet. Advising his beloved Boswell, Johnson recommended a trip to China, for the sake of Boswell’s children: “There would be a lustre reflected upon them. . . . They would be at all times regarded as the children of a man who had gone to view the wall of China.”
Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
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.
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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.
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You can read more about the fascinating history here: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/pneumatic-tubes.pdf
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This article features Ariella Granett who founded Flight Free USA and hasn't flown since 2019.
Travel start-up Byway has launched an exciting new collection of sustainable holidays for dog owners, prooting sustainable travel.
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Byway Travel tries to make flight free travel simple for more people to shift towards more sustainable travel.
But then I remember I didn’t take their children away, hook them up to a machine to extract food from them, or kill them. And that makes me feel like making fun of carnists is not so bad.
That seemed like a pretty valuable feature on reddit, and it seems even more valuable given that there can multiple communities with the same name on different servers.
So is it possible to crosspost?
But then I remember I didn't take their children away, hook them up to a machine to extract food from them, or kill them. And that makes me feel like making fun of carnists is not so bad.
Consumers care more about sustainability now. They choose brands that offer sustainable or eco-friendly options. Travel is a big industry that can benefit host nations and communities if managed su…
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I have built a few versions of solar ebike, but this one is the most fun thus far. I'm going to be test riding it long distance this weekend. Wish me luck!
Italy, France, Spain and the UK all have coastlines on a rail network.
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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.