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The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car.

Since the average modern American, by one estimate, travels 7,500 miles a year, and put in 1,600 hours a year to do that, they are travelling five miles per hour. Before people had cars, however, people managed to do the same – by walking.

By contrast, a person on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than a pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.

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EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions (www.theguardian.com)

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Dutch police have detained activist Greta Thunberg at a climate demonstration in The Hague by toaster in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 103 points 2 months ago

Fuck ads at the gas pump by toaster in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago

I'm just going to leave this here.

Where Heat Pumps Win — And Where They Lose | Five findings from an extremely thorough study by the US National Renewable Energy Lab. by toaster in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 months ago

The TL;DR hero.

Unity | SMBC by toaster in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 49 points 5 months ago

My interpretation of it was that it was satire and not proposing the creation of a fake group. In short, I perceived it as being in agreement with everything you said.

grow a garden. put up solar panels. go vegan. living a solarpunk life is an act of radical activism. the personal is political by toaster in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago

100% this. It's not an either-or.

and where did that bring you? by toaster in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 40 points 8 months ago

Small-scale, local farming is where it's at. Growing a bucket of potatoes on a balcony or helping out at a community garden are small but achievable steps to bring the food closer to us. In addition to sustainability, it promotes knowledge of how to produce our own food and reduces dependence on large-scale monoculture farming.

It's nice to walk a few paces and pick up an ingredient for dinner with the satisfaction that you nurtured it. But mainly, I just don't feel like going to the grocery store as much lol.

Check out !BalconyGardening@slrpnk.net :)

Phasers set to "Bitch please" by toaster in c/risa@startrek.website

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 54 points 8 months ago

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts by toaster in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 40 points 8 months ago

E-bikes and infrastructure would have been a cheap and effective alternative for those subsidies as well.

Truckse by toaster in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 17 points 8 months ago

Your profile picture slaps 😅