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The Daily OrangeGuster guitarist leads sustainability talk
By Rebecca Kheel
Posted: 4/27/09, 3:31 AM EST Section: News
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One such Thanksgiving was depicted in "Revolution Green," a documentary chronicling the evolution of King's Pacific Biodiesel Inc., the first biodiesel company in the United States. The movie was screened before an informal discussion on biodiesel featuring Guster's lead guitarist, Adam Gardner, on Sunday afternoon in Marshall Auditorium at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
The event was part of the fourth annual Campus Consciousness Tour, also playing at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University. It's hosted by Reverb, a nonprofit that promotes environmentalism for musicians, which was founded by Gardner and his environmentalist wife Lauren Sullivan. Guster was also on campus to perform at Sunday's Block Party concert with Ben Folds.
The focus of the discussion and the movie was community-based biodiesel and sustainable biodiesel production. Jeff Plowman, executive director of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, introduced the documentary by describing the difference between sustainable biodiesel and other biodiesels. Sustainable biodiesels are made from crops and waste produced in local communities.
"Right now, people are just plugging big (agriculture) into big oil," Plowman said. "We have to make biodiesel sustainable or we're not going to solve anything."
The documentary began with actor Woody Harrelson asking, "What exactly is green?" It then gave a short history of fuel in the United States, starting just before John D. Rockefeller monopolized the oil market. The movie also told the story of Bob King, who first turned waste like fat, oil and grease into biodiesel. It talked about the fuel's popularity with the trucker community after Willie Nelson began promoting it.
King's theory about sustainable biodiesel is "cradle to cradle," meaning that farmers can grow food that is then refined into biodiesel and used in the vehicles that help produce the crops.
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