road ready…
Green Guerrillas checking in after another marathon month! We are E X C I T E D to announce that (just in time for May Day), our biodiesel/veggie oil bus is once again ROAD READY!
Woooo-hoooooo!
For those new to our story… we purchased a diesel bus off E-Bay in June 2008, and spent that summer with a local “organic mechanic” converting it to run on waste vegetable oil. When we looked around on the internet for a teen-friendly film that covered the conversion process, we could not find one… so we decided to create our own:
Since that time, we have been raising awareness and money for our project!
It took us a very long winter to finish our film – Green Grease Guzzlers. Making conversion “cool” was a lil more challenging than we anticipated! But in June 2009, we came pretty darn close… and decided it was time to focus on the bus itself while we strategized on a distribution plan for the movie.
But then a few amazing things happened that took us a lil off-track… we were awarded a grant from a local foundation (give thanks) to purchase HD equipment:
HDelicious!
. . . so we decided to spend some time learning our new technology and building a better relationship with our natural environment:
After a FUN summer… cozying up to the birds, bees, and trees, we found out about New York State’s plan to introduce hydraulic fracturing for natural gas exploration and exploitation….
Basically, a plan to transform our homelands from this…
our homelands
to this… yikes!
photo credit: wvsoro.org
So… Green Guerrillas g o t b u s y, plunging camera-first into the national grassroots movement to expose the irreversible environmental threat natural gas drilling in 34 states will have on our air, water, and soil… threatening animal, human, and plant life for many generations to come.
Since the start of 2010, we have continued to organize against hydro-fracking… and will be offering the only workshop on this important issue at the United States Social Forum II in Detroit in June.
In preparation for the road to Detroit… we were awarded another grant in March (give thanks, again) to launch our 2010-2011 Green Grease Guzzlers Biodiesel/Veggie Oil Bus Tour, making our efforts since January to go from this…
the inside of our bus... before
to this…
the transformation!
well worth it!
So, after two looooong years, transformations on all levels continue, BUT we are another step closer to realizing our vision of creating a renewable energy demonstration vehicle that serves as a mobile studio from which we can document and share stories from communities marginalized by mainstream media in their (r)evolution to healthier, more sustainable, and self-determined lives.
And we have been transformed… questioning our addiction to fossil fuels, critiquing our food choices, and building our relationships with each other and Mother Earth all along the way. Remember our post about ORENDA a few months back?
Green Guerrillas are heading to New York City tomorrow for the Bronx Food Summit… we will be screening one of our shorts, participating in a youth speak out, and showing off our bus. This will be the first stop on our tour. If you are in the area, join us!
And stay tuned for more updates on the bus renovations…
In the meantime… NO ONE IS ILLEGAL… GGs shout out to all ya’ll we will MISS at FREEDOM FEST in Union Square!
Happy May Day!
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