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It has been designed to provide entrepreneurs and advocates with the fundamental business analysis and route identification tools to bring the Center’s goal of increasing year-round, near-zero-emission coastal maritime trade in the United States. - [Why We Need Your Support Now](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/why-we-need-your-support-now/) - The moment is right for a rebirth and transformation of the American Merchant Marine -- and it will start in New York. - [Hydrogen Fuel Cell Ferry Planned for New York (From supplychainbrain.com)](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/hydrogen-fuel-cell-ferry-planned-for-new-york/) - An electric fast ferry powered by a hydrogen fuel cell is set to be deployed in New York City waters, according to zero-emission vessel developer Switch Maritime LLC, Jackson, Wyoming, and naval architecture firm Incat Crowther, Sydney. - [Maersk's departing head of sustainability reaffirms green targets (From shippingwatch.com)](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/maersks-departing-head-of-sustainability-reaffirms-green-targets-from-shippingwatch-com/) - Lene Bjørn Serpa is leaving Maersk after 15 years and maintains that climate issues remain a priority for the shipping group even though ESG targets have been removed from management bonus schemes. - [British start-up to offer guaranteed wind performance (From tradewindsnews.com)](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/british-start-up-to-offer-guaranteed-wind-performance-from-tradewindsnews-com/) - Rigorous sea trials of the demo system give Smart Green Shipping confidence in performance warranties - [Back to the Future (From Freightwaves.com)](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/back-to-the-future-from-freightwaves-com/) - In a maritime version of “Back to the Future,” a wind-powered cargo vessel is taking to the seas in commercial trans-Atlantic service. - [bound4blue lands US$44M from investors eyeing wind power (From bound4blue.com)](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/bound4blue-lands-us44m-from-investors-eyeing-wind-power/) - bound4blue lands US$44M from investors eyeing wind power as maritime’s most scalable solution for fuel and emission cuts today - [Pallet-based Intermodal Container Prototype](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/pallet-based-intermodal-container-prototype/) - The Pallet Container has the potential to make sailing cargo vessels and bike deliveries economically superior to trucking while slashing congestion and pollution. - [How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/how-to-design-a-sailing-ship-for-the-21st-century/) - Re-posted with permission from Kris De Decker and Low-tech Magazine Most images: Alan Villiers collection. Support Low-tech Magazine via Paypal or Patreon.Subscribe to the Low-tech Magazine newsletter.Buy the printed Low-tech Magazine website. It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and - [Comments by the Center for Post Carbon Logistics on the NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan: Working Waterfront and Transportation of Goods](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/comments-by-the-center-for-post-carbon-logistics-on-the-nyc-comprehensive-waterfront-plan-working-waterfront-and-transportation-of-goods/) - “Moving goods and people from place to place in a carbon constrained future will be dependent on sailing vessels, hybrid/fossil free electric ships, and people/electric, powered transport for first and last mile logistics. “ - [Wind and Water Could Usher in a New 'Intermodal' for Post-Carbon Freight](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/wind-and-water-could-usher-in-a-new-intermodal-for-post-carbon-freight/) - Originally published in Supply Chain Brain Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor Wind and Water Could Usher in a New 'Intermodal' for Post-Carbon Freight Schooner Apollonia in New York Harbor, Photo: Schooner Apollonia A greater adoption of waterborne freight, powered by low-carbon energy alternatives, could take the industry into a future where freight is no longer a sustainability - [Sail Freight Second Edition](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/sail-freight-second-edition/) - A publication of: The Center for Post Carbon Logistics Sail Freight Second Edition Editor Steven Woods Copywrite 2023 The Center for Post Carbon Logistics This work is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This handbook is not a comprehensive guide to Sail Freightoperations, but simply a collection of experience gained recentlyduring the Sail - [How to Run the Economy on the Weather](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/how-to-run-the-economy-on-the-weather/) - Reprinted from Low Tech Magazine with Permission Before the Industrial Revolution, people adjusted their energy demand to a variable energy supply. Our global trade and transport system -- which relied on sail boats -- operated only when the wind blew, as did the mills that supplied our food and powered many manufacturing processes. The same - [The Sail Freighter Handbook](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/the-sail-freighter-handbook/) - A publication of: The Center for Post Carbon Logistics The Sail Freighter Handbook© Steven Woods 2022 This work is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This handbook is not a comprehensive guide to Sail Freightoperations, but simply a collection of experience gained recentlyduring the Sail Freight Revival. It is hoped that this guide - [The 19th Century Solar Engines of Augustin Mouchot, Abel Pifre, and John Ericsson](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/the-19th-century-solar-engines-of-augustin-mouchot-abel-pifre-and-john-ericsson/) - February 29, 2012 , In Solar Power, with permission from LANDGENERATOR The history of renewable energy is fascinating. We posted a while back about early efforts to harness the power of waves. You may also be interested to learn more about the 19th century work of Mouchot and Ericsson, early pioneers of solar thermal concentrators (CSP solar thermal power). - [Sail Freight Revival](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/sail-freight-revival/) - A Master’s Thesis by Steven Woods This article is a summary of the Steven Woods’ Master’s Thesis: “Sail Freight Revival: Methods of calculating fleet, cargo, and labor needs for supplying cities by sail.” Master’s Thesis. Prescott College, 2021. The full thesis can be read Here. Steven Woods earned his master's degree in Resilient and Sustainable - [Rondout Riverport 2040](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/rondout-riverport-2040-2/) - A publication of: The Center for Post Carbon Logistics Rondout Riverport 2040© Andrew Willner 2022 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This work does not constitute an exhaustive or direct set of procedures, but points the way to developing your own plans for resilient small ports. No part of - [Thoughts on Rondout Riverport 2040](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/rondout-riverport-2040/) - A Post Carbon Gateway to the Hudson Valley and the World A Comprehensive Plan for a Working Waterfront and the Transportation of Goods and People in a Carbon Constrained Future Summary: Rondout Riverport 2040 proposes a pragmatic, positive, and prosperous vision for the near future in which the communities of Kingston and Esopus are enriched - [New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/new-age-of-sail-looks-to-slash-massive-maritime-carbon-emissions/) - Originally Posted on Mongabay News & Inspiration, Mongabay Series: Covering the Commons, Oceans, Planetary Boundaries March 15 2021, Author Andrew Willner Mongabay video New Age of Sail is available here. Schooner Apollonia a Hudson River Sail Freight vessel operating now If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth-largest carbon emitter, releasing more CO2 annually than - [Conference on Small Scale Inland & Coastal Sail Freight 2022](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/conference-on-small-scale-inland-coastal-sail-freight-2022/) - A Publication of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics - [Building Future Proof Liberty Ships](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/building-future-proof-liberty-ships-2/) - Locally built, from locally sourced and recycled materials, crewed with locally trained mariners, home ported along the Hudson, the Harbor, and the canals, carrying locally grown, locally processed, and locally manufactured goods - with liberty from fossil fuels, these future proof ships will be a positive disruption to the status quo. Future Proof Liberty Ships - [How Our Maritime Past Can Serve a Carbon-Constrained Future](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/how-our-maritime-past-can-serve-a-carbon-constrained-future/) - This post originally appeared on the Hudson River Maritime Museum's Riverwise website on June 25, 2020 The Hudson, the River that flows both ways has been a transportation corridor for hundreds of years before Europeans first saw it. The Hudson rises in the mountains at Lake Tear of the Clouds in Essex County, NY and empties into - [Captain Erikson's Equation](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/captain-eriksons-equation/) - Originally posted on the Archdruid Report now https://www.ecosophia.net/ by John Michael Greer, March 2014. Reprinted with permission of the author. I have yet to hear anyone in the peak oil blogosphere mention the name of Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Åland Islands and his fleet of windjammers. For all I know, he’s been completely forgotten now, his - [Wellbeing Farm, a “Slow Tech Living Laboratory” for the Hudson Valley Bioregion](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/wellbeing-farm-a-slow-tech-living-laboratory-for-the-hudson-valley-bioregion/) - Summary: Harvest the Past to Power the Future Wellbeing Farm will explore an array of innovative heritage and leading-edge technologies by which individuals, communities, and the Hudson Valley Bioregion can thrive in decades ahead – designing and realizing pragmatic, environmentally and economically sound tools for peacefully, equitably, and intelligently transitioning away from fossil fuels. Imagine - [Transition, Permaculture, and Slow Technology](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/transition-permaculture-and-slow-technology/) - Part one, the Origins of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics Traditional knowledge is in danger and its disappearance would not only cause the loss of people’s capability to keep and pass on the artistic and natural heritage, but also of an extraordinary source of knowledge and cultural diversity from which the appropriate innovation solutions can be derived - [Towards A Food Movement Movement.](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/towards-a-food-movement-movement/) - A Blog Post by Steven Woods. Mr. Woods earned his master’s degree in Resilient and Sustainable Communities at Prescott College in 2021, with an undergraduate degree in History from LeMoyne College. He has worked in museums for over 20 years and is making a career transition to the sustainability field after 6 years in the - [The Northeast Grain Race](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/the-northeast-grain-race/) - A Blog Post by Derek Ellard The Hudson River Maritime Museum, in cooperation with the Center for Post Carbon Logistics and the Northeast Grainshed Alliance, will be conducting a Grain Race in May of 2022. Contestants in four capacity categories will vie for the highest score when moving cargoes of grain from growers to producers - [The Center for Post Carbon Logistics](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/the-center-for-post-carbon-logistics/) - Melding 19th and 21st Century Technologies for Waterborne Freight and Passenger Transport Our world is now convulsed by three great converging crises: climate change, global economic instability, and peak everything. Add to these principal threats the risks of wars over natural resources, climate migration, the total failure of aging and over stressed infrastructure, and the erosion of - [Building Lifeboats – Building Community](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/building-lifeboats-building-community/) - NAVIGATING UNCHARTED TERRITORY “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire The sinking of the Titanic is horribly memorable for many reasons, but one stands out above all: that so many lives were needlessly lost due to “if only” or “what if.” The “unsinkable” vessel lacked sufficient lifeboats to - [As change comes, how will shipping and logistics adapt?](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/as-change-comes-how-will-shipping-and-logistics-adapt/) - Despite its present dominance, our current logistics system engaged in moving people and goods from place to place is fragile. It is reliant upon carbon-based fuels driving internal combustion engines. It is interwoven into long-distance, globalized world trade. It is designed for Just-In-Time delivery. And it depends upon its present ability to avoid paying for - [Andrus Sustainable Logistics Fellowship Update](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/andrus-sustainable-logistics-fellowship-update/) - Please support the Sustainable Logistics Fellow and the important work of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics with a contribution. Highlights from the Andrus Fellowship to date: June - November 2023 Captain Sam Merrett and "Supercargo" Brad Vogel aboard the Schooner Apollonia Inaugural Andrus Fellow Brad Vogel has spent six busy months working to both: - [Introducing Brad Vogel, Erik Andrus Sustainable Logistics Fellow](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/the-erik-andrus-sustainable-regional-logistics-fellowship/) - You Made It Happen! The Center for Post Carbon Logistics Achieves Fundraising GoalMeet the Andrus Sustainable Logistics Fellow Apollonia Supercargo Brad Vogel. Brad has been at the forefront of developing an alternate green logistics framework in the NY region since 2019, and we are excited to see him going full time on the sustainable shipping and - [CPCL Achieves Fundraising Goal​](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/center-for-post-carbon-logistics-achieves-fundraising-goal/) - Sustainable Logistics Fellow Brad Vogel is at the forefront of developing an alternate green logistics framework in the NY region and we are excited to see him going full time on the sustainable shipping and logistics front. In the first year, the Fellow will serve the Schooner Apollonia in expanding and strengthening the logistical backbone of its sustainable sail freight network. - [Electric Hudson](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/electric-hudson/) - Creating the first Green Shipping Corridor in the United States - [Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation RFEI](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/brooklyn-navy-yard-development-corporation-rfei/) - INTRODUCTION Based in New York’s Hudson Valley, the Center for Post Carbon Logistics (the Center) is engaged in a long-running campaign to bring the idea of coastal trade under sail and other zero emission vessels back to the United States. The Center is currently focusing on turning the New York -New Jersey Harbor and Hudson - [Center for Post Carbon Logistics NYC Blue Highways RFEI Response](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/center-for-post-carbon-logistics-nyc-blue-highways-rfei-response/) - As a result of the Center’s mission and the recent RFEI from New York City regarding Maritime transport, it is appropriate that the Center respond with a statement of how our efforts already support these objectives, and how the City can meet or exceed their goals by looking outside their own borders. A focus on ## Pages - [Home](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/) - THE FUTURE OF LOGISTICS IS POST CARBONThe Center for Post Carbon Logistics is the only organization in the U.S. that advocates for near-zero emission merchant shipping.Click here to find out more about The Center LATEST CPCL NEWS SUPPORT A POST CARBON FUTURE: Give Today to Protect Tomorrow – Your support empowers local communities to transition away - [Resources](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/resources-2/) - Resources Meet our Cohort Recommended Reading from Founder Andrew Willner: Trade WindsTrade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer is a book that blends a personal narrative with an analysis of the shipping industry’s urgent need for decarbonization, using the author’s five-month journey on the sailing cargo ship Avontuur - [Cohort](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/resources/) - Cohort Several companies and organizations are advocating for and pioneering the use of wind propulsion and sail freight for near-zero-emission maritime transportation. Notable examples are included below. These companies and organizations are utilizing retrofitted vessels, purpose-built ships, and innovative sail designs to reduce reliance on traditional fossil fuels. The Center for Post Carbon Logistics is partnering - [Publications](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/publications/) - Publications Publications of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics Sail Freight Business Handbook Published March 26, 2026 Read More » Sail Freight Second Edition January 13, 2023 Read More » Conference on Small Scale Inland & Coastal Sail Freight 2022 November 11, 2022 Read More » Rondout Riverport 2040 August 5, 2022 Read More » - [Our Story](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/our-story/) - Our Story The Center for Post Carbon Logistics (CPCL) was born as a project proposal for a Good Work Institute fellowship that was based around Andrew Willner’s career as shipwright, sailing vessel captain, short sea shipping consultant, and New York Baykeeper. In part because of so much positive response, the fellowship inspired the formation of - [About CPCL](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/about-c4pcl/) - About CPCL Mission:The mission of The Center for Post Carbon Logistics is to research and assist in the implementation of appropriate post carbon maritime technology needed to keep commerce and transportation viable by responding to the interrelated connectivity, communication, equity, economic, ecological, and energy crises of the 21st century. Vision:We envision a world where resilient, - [Programs](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/programs/) - Programs Cargo Shipping Wind and Water Could Usher in a New ‘Intermodal’ for Post-Carbon Freight January 29, 2024 Ship Design How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? March 6, 2022 Container Design Pallet-based Intermodal Container Prototype February 5, 2026 The Pallet Container has the potential to make sailing cargo vessels and bike deliveries economically - [Container Design](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/container-design/) - Container Design Blog Posts: Container Design Pallet-based Intermodal Container Prototype February 5, 2026 No Comments The Pallet Container has the potential to make sailing cargo vessels and bike deliveries economically superior to trucking while slashing congestion and pollution. Read More » - [Ship Design](https://postcarbonlogistics.dreamhosters.com/ship-design/) - Ship Design Blog Posts: Ship Design How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? March 6, 2022 No Comments Re-posted with permission from Kris De Decker and Low-tech Magazine Most images: Alan Villiers collection. Support Low-tech Magazine via Paypal or Patreon. Subscribe to the Low-tech Magazine newsletter. 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