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RENEWABLE ENERGY = SUSTAINABLE TRADE!
Sail Transport Network is a movement. For thousands of years, wind energy moved people and goods all over the world—without pollution. Today, dwindling, geopolitically sensitive oil is used for every form of transportation and commerce. Even e-commerce with computers is dependent on forms of petroleum, and trucks and cars still clog roads in the dot.com economy. |
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JOIN THE SAIL TRANSPORT NETWORK
Sail Transport Network intends to resurrect renewable-energy travel and freight. STN is being launched in in the Pugent Sound where there are hundreds of harbor-towns and inlets in protected waters. We present this opportunity to network with sailors who are cognizant of the role sailboats will once again play in transport in coastal areas as gas prices continue to climb according to the law of supply and demand. |
Are the days of tall ships really over?
Civilization has extracted vast resources
of tall trees, such that only 5% remain
in many forests such as the Pacific
Northwestern American. Yet, smaller boats
of sail and canoe design will still be
useful, and employ renewable energy.
Through the cultivation of reeds, hemp
and other materials and conservation of
trees, sustainable transport and trade will
take us well into the new millennium - as
oil is running out.
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HOW TO JOIN
Membership has various participatory categories and is free. Tp help build STN, your time and thoughts are needed as much as equipment and funds.
To join: send an email expressing interest in being part of the appropriate-tech solution to the fuel crunch and global warming. You will receive a brochure and a free copy of the Sail Transport Network Cover Issue #17 of theAuto-Free Times(see link to wwww.lesscars.org)
Tax-deductible donations to our nonprofit sponsor, Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute, are needed to launch the Sail Transport Network. Loaning a sailboat to STN for charter gratis can also yield a tax deduction.
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Human Power in Venice?
This picture shows some boats that act as
lifelines for the citizens of Venice.
Venice is famous for its gondolas, which
work well for traveling on shallow water,
but, in today's "reality," residents
travel using motorboats--the always-black
gondolas are reserved for tourists.
Perhaps in the not so distant future
they will use more wind and sail, and
less oil, gas and motors.
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