Roll-N-Green at Nedfest 2006

Lately, I was part of the Nedfest 2006 for the Roll-N-Green visual production. We attached the biodiesel program to it because there’s different way to Roll-N-Green, especially in boulder. Support the farmer and explain to people that the can make there own difference......because actions speak louder than words!

Biodiesel FYI

A 1998 biodiesel lifecycle study, jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture, concluded biodiesel reduces net CO2 emissions by 78% compared to petroleum diesel. This is due to biodiesel’s closed carbon cycle. The CO2 released into the atmosphere when biodiesel is burned is recycled by growing plants, witch are later processed into fuel.

Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have fully completed the health effects testing requirement of the clean air act. I found biodiesel here in Fort Collins in two different stations. They had been in operation for the last 3 years and they just opened a new one in Boulder, Colorado.

Using biodiesel reduces carbon monoxide, lifecycle carbon dioxide, ozone-forming-hydrocarbons, acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide and hazardous diesel particulates.

Kate

Note: This post is part of Hilltrip.com’s Carbon Offset Program, which helped Kathleen Marcotte convert her car to run on biodiesel to travel south of Whistler and than back to Quebec. While traveling Kate wrote stories about her biodiesel experience and they are now available here on TerraTrip.org’s blog for everyone to read.