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The Daily OrangeGuster guitarist leads sustainability talk
By Rebecca Kheel
Posted: 4/27/09, 3:31 AM EST Section: News
The discussion started with Gardner handing out kitchenware that was manufactured using biodiesel products, such as plates made from sugar cane and cups made from corn.
"This bag is actually made of an old T-shirt," Gardner said to laughs as he held up the bag the products were in. "We just sowed up the bottom of it and now it's a bag."
Guster uses the kitchenware as part of their attempt to make their tours as green as possible. The band also fills their tour bus with biodiesel fuel and rarely travels by airplane. Their latest record, "Satellite," was released in recycled paper slips, as opposed to traditional jewel cases. Guster encourages fans to carpool to shows and provide incentives like VIP parking.
The conversation then turned to ESF's production of biodiesel. ESF uses leftover vegetable oil from SU dining halls to refine biodiesel on campus.
Steve Lloyd, SU's chief sustainability officer, said ESF is already using biofuel, and that SU is promoting its use as well.
"SU is trying to get their vehicles, except for ambulances, on biofuel," Lloyd said at the documentary screening. "We've had a little resistance to that from some upper people, but Syracuse is really trying to get that pushed through."
Having established ESF's commitment to biodiesel, the discussion focused on how to promote environmentally friendly practices. Jessica Meyer, a freshman environmental engineering major, said ESF's next step should be reaching out to SU.
"I'm not an ESF student, I'm an SU student," she said. "I think a lot of us just really don't know what's going on right next door. We're really closed off."
After the discussion ended, Meyer said she came to the event because she was interested in sustainability practices, and that she learned a lot about biodiesels.
"I didn't realize that it could be done on a local scale," Meyer said. "I think that if it is done at a local scale, then it can be done in a more sustainable way than importing things even more to the United States for another source of energy."
rhkheel@syr.edu
"This bag is actually made of an old T-shirt," Gardner said to laughs as he held up the bag the products were in. "We just sowed up the bottom of it and now it's a bag."
Guster uses the kitchenware as part of their attempt to make their tours as green as possible. The band also fills their tour bus with biodiesel fuel and rarely travels by airplane. Their latest record, "Satellite," was released in recycled paper slips, as opposed to traditional jewel cases. Guster encourages fans to carpool to shows and provide incentives like VIP parking.
The conversation then turned to ESF's production of biodiesel. ESF uses leftover vegetable oil from SU dining halls to refine biodiesel on campus.
Steve Lloyd, SU's chief sustainability officer, said ESF is already using biofuel, and that SU is promoting its use as well.
"SU is trying to get their vehicles, except for ambulances, on biofuel," Lloyd said at the documentary screening. "We've had a little resistance to that from some upper people, but Syracuse is really trying to get that pushed through."
Having established ESF's commitment to biodiesel, the discussion focused on how to promote environmentally friendly practices. Jessica Meyer, a freshman environmental engineering major, said ESF's next step should be reaching out to SU.
"I'm not an ESF student, I'm an SU student," she said. "I think a lot of us just really don't know what's going on right next door. We're really closed off."
After the discussion ended, Meyer said she came to the event because she was interested in sustainability practices, and that she learned a lot about biodiesels.
"I didn't realize that it could be done on a local scale," Meyer said. "I think that if it is done at a local scale, then it can be done in a more sustainable way than importing things even more to the United States for another source of energy."
rhkheel@syr.edu
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