Hope for Clean-Energy Road Trips (Neil Young soundtrack included)

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  03.06.09 | 12:44 PM ET

Photo by enygmatic via Flickr (Creative Commons).

I had to cheer when I read about the members of the Indian Youth Climate Network driving across 3,500 kilometers of the subcontinent in three electric Revas, a plant-oil-fueled truck, a van run on vegetable oil and another van with solar panels. They passed 15 major Indian cities to promote climate change awareness, while also advertising the effectiveness of clean-energy road-tripping. Hurray!

Momentum is definitely with them, and so is Neil Young, a master of great road songs who is transforming his 1959 Lincoln from a gas-guzzler into an electric vehicle. He’s even written a soundtrack for his electric-car project, which could inspire some clean-energy road-tripping on this continent. (Via Inhabitat)

 

Tags: Eco Travel, Music, Road Trips, Asia, India, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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