I found an interesting little project completely by accident yesterday. I was riding from Manhattan back to Brooklyn yesterday around noon after a meeting, and I saw a girl wearing a hoodie that said, "Change your fuel. Change the world." and had this nifty little leaf symbol on the back of it. Now if you've read much of this blog you know that one of my big soapboxes is how we are pretty much killing this planet.
Between Climate Change, unsustainable manufacturing, and poor management or resources, and about another dozen imminent concerns I don't think we have 20 years of comfortable living left even in first world countries. I know its grim, but it s true. If we don't change our ways, we are screwed.
But that has nothing and everything to do with the cute girl on the subway - did I say cute?....hmmmm.... I had to ask about the hoodie didn't I?
She was part of The Big Green Bus Project out of Dartmouth college last year. Which is a amazing awareness raising project and seems like everyone I have mentioned this to knows something about it. Personally, I think that the hoodies could be an amazing awareness raising thing in and of themselves.
In the end I don't think that bio-fuel is the answer - too much CO2, but in the short run it is definitely one of our best alternatives - especially since the entire trucking fleet of North America is already diesel engines (no change of fleet means only half an infrastructure change for distribution).
Anyway, check out TBGB and send let them know if you would buy a hoodie or t-shirt as well. I think that they have a completely untapped revenue resource and haven't exploited it yet.
And Steph, if you read this, were I in a different time in my life I totally would have asked for your phone number. Best of wishes.
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