Spending time with nature helps us better appreciate the wonders of our unique little planet. However, our mostly urban existence hardly allows us to travel around those deserts, mountains, rivers, oceans and forests. Still, there are eco-adventurers who always come up with something new to share and startle us with. Conveying one message or the other, they show us how to keep going sustainably. Here, we salute their endeavors and enlist some of their exploits:
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Image Credit: Phil Uhl
Eco-Adventurer: Roz Savage
Year: 2009
Green Factor: Roz's 23-foot-long boat is has six solar panels and a wind generator to power computers, cameras and other electronic necessities.
Mission: To promote ocean activism.
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Eco Adventurer: David de Rothschild
Year: 2009
Green Factor: The boat is made of 20,000 recycled plastic bottles. It aims to cruise over 12,000 nautical miles across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney.
Mission: To study ocean acidification, coral bleaching and marine debris.
3) Trans-Pacific PlanetSolar Expedition:
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Image Credit: PlanetSolar
Eco Adventurers: Raphaël Domjan and Gérard d’Aboville
Year: 2010
Green Factor: The lustrous solar-powered boat has 180 square meters of photovoltaic cells. It is supposed to travel at an average speed of 10 knots.
Mission: Attempts to raise awareness of the powerful renewable energy technologies.
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Eco-Adventurers: 200 prisoners
Year: 2009
Green Factor: Prisoners will travel 1,400 miles around France and endorse clean transportation.
Mission: Though the genuine motive behind the race is to develop a sense of friendship and co-operation among soldiers, it will go on to promote cycling as the cleanest mode of transportation.
5) Wave-Powered Boat Crosses the Pacific
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Image Credit: Greenpacks
Eco-Adventurer: Japanese sailor Kenichi Horie
Year: 2008
Green Factor: Sailed across the Pacific in a boat powered by ocean waves.
Mission: To promote wave-power.
6) Solar Taxi
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Image Credit: Ecofriend
Eco-Adventurer: Louis Palmer
Year: 2008
Green Factor: This solar-powered vehicle is powered by a $5000 solar panel that can give it a maximum of 200 miles on a single charge, along with the recyclable batteries that help it further.
Mission: To go across the globe without using gasoline.
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Eco-Adventurer: Shusei Yamada
Year: 2009
Green Factor: Eco-friendly, around-the-world journey was completed in a biodiesel-powered SUV.
Mission: To prove biodiesel to be an effective source of future energy.
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Eco-Adventurer: Jason Lewis
Year: 2007
Green Factor: Circumnavigated the globe entirely by muscle power.
Mission: To raise money for humanitarian causes and to draw attention to environmental issues.
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Eco-Adventurer: Goran Kropp
Year: 1996
Green Factor: Kropp rode a bike, laden with mountaineering gear, from Sweden, and then climbed to the summit of Everest.
Mission: To encourage eco-tourism.
10) The Solution Simple
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Eco-Adventurer: Alain Robert
Year: 2009
Mission: To draw more attention to the issue of global warming.
11) 1000 days at sea
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Image Credit: PTIA
Eco-Adventurer: Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad
Year: 2007
Green Factor: A 70-foot (21 meter) gaff-rigged Schooner had coal and firewood for heater and solar panels to power the on board electronics.
Mission: To promote a global message of inspiration, perseverance and human ecological self-sustenance.
12) Paris-New York Transcontinental
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Eco-Adventurer: Matthias Jeschke
Year: 2007
Green Factor: The Paris-New York Transcontinental expedition runs on bioethanol produced from wood waste.
Mission: To promote alternative fuels and carbon neutrality.
Eco-Adventurer: Shrenik Rao
Year: 2008
Green Factor: It will be an enlightening, 3,900-kilometre cycle journey from one end of India to another.
Mission: To raise awareness and to gather pledges to plant more trees worldwide.
14) Mission Improbable
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Eco-Adventurer: Hugh Sawyer
Year: 2007
Green Factor: Hugh lived in the South American jungle for one year. The expedition demanded higher level of sustainability and fishing, foraging etc. were the only means of survival.
Mission: To save rainforests and raise money for Rainforest Concern.
15) Self-Propelled Outdoor Club
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Via: Momentum
Eco-Adventurer: Jason Addy & Friends
Green Factor: The club members are committed urban cyclists who choose cycling and other self-propelled means to go to work, go to the gym, buy groceries, and all these daily activities. Hence, they are hoping to bridge the mundane practices with outdoor pursuits.
Mission: To put forth the idea of cycling as a way to independently fuel trips.
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