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- | A collection of notes about wind assisted / Fair transport. | + | A collection of notes about wind assisted / Fair transport.Some vague possibility of this as a connection between older knoeledges and newer ones, that could help us deal with coming changes. |
=== Meeting at NSRSail conference in Harlingen=== | === Meeting at NSRSail conference in Harlingen=== | ||
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==Transcript of notes, extended== | ==Transcript of notes, extended== | ||
- | Film "Ready About" / "Klar zu wenden" | + | Film "[[http:// |
Leeuwarden will be capital of culture in 2018 and there is interest to carry on some cultural aspect of this project in that context. | Leeuwarden will be capital of culture in 2018 and there is interest to carry on some cultural aspect of this project in that context. | ||
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Early motor driven vessels carried sails as they were a guarantee that the vessels could get through. | Early motor driven vessels carried sails as they were a guarantee that the vessels could get through. | ||
- | "Is the expression "Clean Cargo" greenwashing? | + | "Is the expression "Clean Cargo" greenwashing? |
Andreas Lackner from Tres Hombres talked about their Fair Transport work. Since 2013 they have reached a break even point. So this is financially sustainable, | Andreas Lackner from Tres Hombres talked about their Fair Transport work. Since 2013 they have reached a break even point. So this is financially sustainable, | ||
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Carbon credit markets and rerlated topics are difficult. There are various markets.. LNG as a fuel is being considered. There is a problem with split incentives: the owner needs to act, but the charterer pays / saves. There is no existing methodology for (measuring / crediting) fuel savings. Voluntary / Verified Carbon Standard is one international system. Given the Ecoliner' | Carbon credit markets and rerlated topics are difficult. There are various markets.. LNG as a fuel is being considered. There is a problem with split incentives: the owner needs to act, but the charterer pays / saves. There is no existing methodology for (measuring / crediting) fuel savings. Voluntary / Verified Carbon Standard is one international system. Given the Ecoliner' | ||
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+ | === Water / Sail and Arts Network === | ||
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+ | As a result of meeting Madadh MacLaine at NSRsail, a conversation with various people and organisations has arisen. Let us try and keep track of them here. They of course begin to interconnect with other conversations.... | ||
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+ | ==Cape Farewell== | ||
+ | David Buckland runs this in the UK. Artists and environmental considerations. Arts/ | ||
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+ | ===Sustainable Sea Transport=== | ||
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+ | Peter Nuttall at University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Have run several conferences. | ||
+ | There seems to be a useful series of meetings and work going on. | ||
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+ | If I understand, the issue is developing vessels for cargo between PAcific islands, that are commercially as well as ecologically workable and sustainable. Islands are losing transport chances because duesel is no longer affordable as a propulsion fuel. | ||
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+ | One suggested design, similar to the one above: [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===Island Mesh=== | ||
+ | A voyage from Fiji to Rotuma should take place under the name of Island Mesh. Call will be made in Feb 2015. | ||
+ | This is an ANAT / ADA Aotearoa Digital Arts) collaboration. | ||
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+ | This might be connectied to the Mesh Cities project about arts in transitional spaces. | ||
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+ | ===Windfinder=== | ||
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+ | Wipke Iwersen has been sending out small, unmanned sailing vessels that sail into the wind, as his search for "the origin of the wind" since 2004. [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===Marin=== | ||
+ | While its acronym is relatively general, Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network, there is a strong Makrolab taste about these projects. Journeys, data streams, autonomous sensor networks, etc. One sees close connections to ATOL's project in Slovenia and the Arctic Perspective Initiative as well. Ran 2009-2011, unsure about current status. | ||
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+ | Link: [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===Meeting the Odysee=== | ||
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+ | A 5 year EU Culture project, re-exploring the Odyssee in the context of the Baltic, The Ionian (I think, around Italy) and the Aegean. | ||
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