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We Did It: Sailing Cargo in the Aegean
Sail-transport labelled Now that the voyage of the sloop Pelago has completed its route of six islands in the central Aegean Sea, take a guess as to what the consensus reaction is of the Aegean...
Cure for Depending on 90K Oil Spewing Cargo Ships: Sail Power Makes Inroads, Now in Mediterranean
Announcing: Aegean Cargo Sailing (SAIL MED) • Food security • Local development • The Blue Economy • Healthy Seas In a fast-changing world, it is no longer possible to automatically...
Dirty Fossil Fuel ‘Business-As-Usual’ Tactics Spew Out of the IMO at COP22
Publisher's note: the following is our position summary available at the current United Nations climate meeting in Marrakech, prepared by Charlene Caprio. Since the UN climate meeting in 1997 ...
Noah’s Ark Gone Awry
Note: This report is Article #1 in our new Responsible Shipping Series. Author: Charlene Caprio Transport by sea carries about 90% of the world's trade. Consumerism is fueled by vast choices; ...
Good News/Bad News for Consumers in an Increasingly Energy-Challenged, Shipping-Dependent World
OIL-DEPENDENT MARITIME SHIPPING IS ACHILLES HEEL IN HOPED-FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY ECONOMY Here is good news and bad news for getting your cherished consumer goods shipped across the seas. Hadn�...
Sail cargo's imminent achievement: Timbercoast's Steel Schooner, the Avontuur
My report and photo shoot from Germany last month after attending the Paris COP21 climate meeting: ELSFLETH, GERMANY, NEAR THE NORTH SEA - This is the Timbercoast project, renovating the Avon...
COP21 Follow-up for Sail Transport and Its Fight against Shipping Emissions and for Resilience
Frgn. Minister, Marshall Is. Section 1. - UN CLIMATE AGREEMENT WRAP-UP The Paris agreement is essentially a promise to make real promises later. It is a positive development that the nati...
Shipping Emissions Must Be Tackled at COP21 with Advances such as Sail Power
The UN Climate Conference in Paris (COP21) is well underway with positive momentum to adopt a new climate change agreement. The draft Paris agreement calls for parties to keep the global temp...
Maine Sail Freight — America Gets Serious about Clean, Renewable Energy for Transport
Last month the traditional schooner, Adventure, sailed from Portland, Maine to Boston with 11 tons of local products. It has been many decades since a concerted sail-transport feat like this happ...
The Tres Hombres Ship is Homeward Bound
Pico, Azores The world’s foremost cargo sailing ship, the beautiful square-rigged Tres Hombres, is now sailing back to Europe from the Dominican Republic. Another successful round-trip voy...