Climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/07/20-meat-and-dairy-firms-emit-more-greenhouse-gas-than-germany-britain-or-france

https://youtu.be/CyLGf7riDjw

Bbc celebrating air pollution

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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop26-carbon-emissions-flying-net-zero-aviation-uk-b1920556.html

Global Climate Strike next Friday anyone?
https://fridaysforfuture.org/september24/

Get ready to deal with this
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1438819716236206083

https://twitter.com/matthias_huss/status/1438777037695684609?s=19

This is worth a read:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2021/sep/23/why-arent-more-big-bike-firms-tracking-their-environmental-impact

Trek are the first bike brand to publish a sustainability assessment, which gives some figures as to the environmental cost of manufacturing and using a bike. The additional cost of carbon fibre, effectively three times more impactful than aluminium, is particularly noteworthy.

Pro peloton to revert to metal bikes only? (Yeah right)
Would be cool to see how they shape them for the aeros

It's a good read, good points on what is the bike being used for, leisure v car replacement as to how we should be counting it in our lives.
Key is that it gives a baseline line for them to work to to reduce CO2e. I know other brands are doing a lot around their materials they use, etc and hopefully this will push more to report it annually.

Other good thing about aluminium is it's recyclable so should be less wasteful at end of life

fantastic

It uses a strategy of forced obsolescence; standards are routinely updated, making it hard to find replacement parts for older bikes.

No no no no no, these are all serious gainz for the weekend warrior smashing Strava to death. Standard updates save watts!

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this just invites tribalism in a thing on whole is better for everyone/planet

as I mentioned in the 'green cycling' thread, its a pointless exercise weaponised by Trek to sell more bikes

the real enemy is behind a steering wheel on a nissan qashqai on the way to nearest sainsburys

#Carbonisevil

Not sure if you're being serious or not but it allows Trek to identify hotspots in thier supply chain and work to reduce them further

yeah they could have just done that internally to make manufacturing more green and efficient

Can’t think who it was, but recently some small Scandiwegian bike manufacturer spent a shitload on developing a carbon mountainbike, and went out to China to see the production processes involved, and were so appalled by the massive waste and huge environmental impact that carbon bikes have that they promptly scrapped the whole project and went back to aluminium.

Roads clogged with drivers queuing to buy petrol today contributing a fair bit to pumping up pollution levels

This is the only good News involving Trek in the history of Trek … and News … and you hate on it.

I will never understand Trek owners.

Been 'enjoying' some YT content from Climate town, share like subscribe whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateTown

US focused but covers car eccentric society and tactics of big companies like BP, Exxon, General motors, etc. and is well delivered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9LOqiXdpE

the real enemy is behind a steering wheel on a nissan qashqai on the way to nearest sainsburys

It's the governments that keep allowing bullshit cars to exist, new roads to be built and keep allowing companies to fill our air and water with pollution just to sell their shit back to us.

It's the governments that keep allowing bullshit cars to exist, new roads to be built and keep allowing companies to fill our air and water with pollution just to sell their shit back to us.

Power of lobbying, marketing and obvious conflict of interest, great watch on the state of the US, not much better here mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo

I've always found the Orient express thread a bit depressing given the likelihood of grim unrestricted production methods and waste. Ditto the fake furniture tips.

That said unless legit companies start being transparent about there manufacturing methods i think it's safe to assume they're mostly shite.

2022 Flight Free is up and running now:

https://flightfree.co.uk/