Vegan Transportation
To enable the best environmental impact of our lives on the world, we
might well address the uses of power and industrial pollution it takes to power
the cars we buy and drive.
What is wrong with gas?
Typical gasoline –
recent USC study of pollution effects on children
What options do we have?
High MPG (gov website
of MPG & tons of pollution, etc), least-impact vehicles, carpooling,
How can I make the most significant difference, without having to pay lots of money?
Have ACTION-ORIENTED, implement-this-today ideas readily available to
post or link to this page
Get Green!
How to save money and help
the environment at the same time
The Lightest Tread
To achieve the highest quality environment for all life to live in,
requires that we all do our best to improve our impact on the world. When we
drive, we not only have to try not to run into the innocent animals whom we
sometimes endanger, but also try not to pollute, or otherwise devalue, our
larger natural planetary well-being, by our decisions to use gasoline, and
support the markets of various car manufacturers, among other issues.
To purposefully improve the
conditions of the world, we must overcome the various obstacles to living
sustainably. Rather than aiming to simply minimize our negative impact, it is
best that we aim to actually improve the places of the world that we live,
travel through, and visit, throughout our lives.
Since vegans tend to be concerned with animals, and the supportive
nourishing environments in which we and all the living are dependent of the
planet live, to be fully aware and careful of our effects on the well-being of
the world, m
Depending on where you are, where you’re going, how much time, money,
and knowledge you have, you can make the best decision in finding the best
transportation for wherever you’re going, and whatever you’re doing.
Can you, and are you willing to live your life optimally in a place
that offers sustainable transportation?
Where are these places, and how do they affect the rest of our lives?
What additional constraints, if any, should people know about, when considering
planet-friendly transportation?
The main things to address when reviewing transportation options
typically are: cost, convenience, effect on environment, effect to the living,
and sustainability.
Some of the most practical strategies toward improving the cleanliness
of
Solar cars are a ways from replacing the gas-guzzlers, but what we can
we really do for with the cost and availability of a real what we can with the
technology available/affordable today.
Optimal transportation, by city.
Are electric cars available in any cities or countries?
Electric cars
still need a solar backbone for guaranteed clean
energy source (charge electric vehicles from house, house outfitted with solar
panels for energy capture, and operated efficiently)
Electric Motorcycles
Street Motorcycles
E-cycle, and zappy both used
to manufacture electric motorcycles
Off-Road Motorcycles
This company builds and
sells electric motocross bikes (MSRP $4699,
with a comparison to a new
Honda XR 250)
http://www.electricmoto.com/electricmoto.php?id=specs_blade
(also listed on Vegan Recreation page)
BIKEABLE TOWNS
In some smaller, compact, or flat areas, often a large biking
population will flourish, which acclimates car drivers to their presence,
making it nicer and easier to live car free.
SUBWAY or “TUBE”
In places such as London, (which city), New York, USA, it is possible
through a grid of regularly running trains to access a large area, without the
need for a car, or cost of taking a taxi.
IN A CAR ONLY ENVIRONMENT, LIKE L.A.
Goal: Clean NRG in, Pollution-free out. Range of 300-500
miles, powered anywhere, by off-grid clean-burning electricity, off-grid NRG,
grid-electricity, solar, or onboard windmills (which detect windspeed, and open
when efficient to, as is perpendicular winds, or when wind is strong and the
car is parked). Fully Recycleable batteries. Full size car, bumpable bumpers,
navigation system, multiband radio.
http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop3.cfm?dp=303&ts=1012202 is a solar
panel kit for RVs which might adapt to cars, if it was legal…
Current Standards
CARPOOL:
Social invention = resource reduction + social integration
CAR: Gas powered vehicles = distance, refueling generally convenient,
though somewhat toxic, powerful, full size. Pollution reversible?
Hybrid = distance, powerful, full size, sends strong
message to industry, fuels anywhere gas one does. No additional inputs for
clean energy.
Electric = limited distance
Solar = not full size
BUS:
TRAIN:
TAXI: Expensive for long-range commuting