Hitting the Road… to Sustainability

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Interested in learning more about bio-fuels?

Check out this fun, informative video: The Road to Sustainability.

It follows a cross-country road trip fueled entirely by waste vegetable oil picked up along the way. It’s the best introduction I’ve seen to the upsides, the pit-falls, and the realities of running your car on WVO.

Still want to know more?

Derek Wallace (that’d be the guy in the video) is a Matador contributor. Check out some of his work over at Brave New Traveler: Sustainable Organic Farming and You, Can International Travel Ever Be Sustainable? and What Cuba Taught Us About Peak Oil.

Elsewhere in the Matador network, give In The News: Biofuels and How To Stop Paying For Gas and Run On Free Vegetable Oil in 8 Easy Steps a read.


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Eva Holland

Eva Holland is co-editor of Matador Pulse and a regular contributor to the Matador Network. She's also a contributing editor at World Hum. Eva recently quit her day job and gave notice on her apartment, and is currently bouncing around Eastern Ontario, Quebec and upstate New York.

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  • Derek Wallace replied on November 11, 2008

    Thanks for featuring my video! There are a lot of things I would do differently were I to make the trip again (and some things I would avoid altogether). Perhaps I will put together a follow-up video one of these days. But I did want to share that the Rochester Institute of Technology has the first ever PhD in sustainability - and they've started showing "The Road to Sustainability" to al of their first-year students! Woo hoo!

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  • Eva replied on November 13, 2008

    Congrats, Derek! That's fantastic news!!

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