Journey 2010 to Launch from Vancouver, Canada
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on July 03, 2010 at 01:00 PM
SolTrekker comes to the rescue. We’ve been struggling for months to find an ecofriendly support vehicle for our Journey (not so easy). SolTrekker is the perfect solution.
Journey 2010 launches July 15, 2010. It is a 2000-mile Journey by bicycle (with a film crew and follow on support vehicle) from Vancouver, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico (July-Sept). The support vehicle is a story in and of itself. It is a bus powered by biodiesel and solar energy. The nonprofit organization called SolTrekker created it by transforming a standard motor home into a “mobile green building showroom.” Besides using green energy, the bus has a composting toilet, rainwater capture system, and renewable building materials throughout.
For more photos by SolTrekker see their Flickr Gallery at : http://www.soltrekker.org/photos.html
The Journey draws attention to, and celebrates, solutions that join science to community-based problem solving. We are focusing on food, water and energy. Multimedia, culture, and social networking are crucial pieces of the puzzle. Good story-telling is key to effective science communication and social change. Our stories share community-based solutions in the richness of local contexts (local environments, history, cultural heritage/ lifeways). At the same time, we are careful to relate progressive localism to larger challenges emerging at regional scales (e.g., watershed/foodshed management) and global scales (e.g., climate change adaptation). This kind of “multiscalar” approach (what we call progressive regionalism) is crucial if we ever hope to enable sustainable urban, rural and regional development in our increasingly globalized and turbulent world.
Journey 2010 will be making stops in 18 cities, many rural towns, tribal lands, and hinterlands spanning 75 West Coast watersheds. You’ll be able to follow our progress in near real time as we do the Journey (see The Global ARC web site for regular updates including video posts). Journeys of The Global ARC aim to encourage concerned citizens, college students, faculty and scientists to link up with community organizations struggling with local and regional problems of unsustainable development. We have a strong base upon which to inspire this movement, and make it happen, including Information and Communications Technology (ICT), publications, TV documentaries, global networks linking science and planning academics worldwide. It’s time to make higher education more civically engaged and to celebrate/empower/scale up the creative and entrepreneurial energy we see in so many wonderful partnership-based solutions.
One of the 2010 Journey of the Global ARC’s Bicycles
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I am very impressed with this and hopefully we can partner Sol Trekker for Journey 2011 on The East Coast! The Sol Trekker is a solution in and of itself. Lets put this in the sustainability data base! It also adds value to any journey since it is part of the learning tour. Bravo. Well done!