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Fuel the Revolution: Biofuels Conference & Sustainable Transportation Expo

Date:
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Time:
1:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Event Type:
Conference
Organizer/Author:
Milana
Email:
Phone:
831 457 2840
Location Details:
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 95064
UCSC Women's Center

Please join us for this yearʻs...

3rd Annual Biofuels & Sustainable Transportation Exposition:
Fuel for the Revolution!
MAY 19 & 20
at the UCSC Womenʻs Center

This yearʻs event offers free organic food, music by Harry + The Hitman and Local MC Soup, workshops on BIOFUELS 101 & HOW TO BREW BIODIESEL IN YOUR BACKYARD?
Special Guests:
Ray Newkirk, Founder of Pacific Biofuels, Santa Cruzʻ local Biodiesel distributor
Hilarious and Outrageous short films presented by Scott Beibin with the Lost Film Festival, featuring political pranks, protestor footage and other inspirational clips with a focus on the new wave of alternative energy!

Gather together in a network of peace-activists working to create change for today and tomorrow, share skills and celebrate the revolution in transportation taking place by our own hands! Learn how to be SELF-SUSTAINING, create COMMUNITY and objectively consider the implications of the industrial transportation transitions happening in our society today, including the impacts of genetic engineering, clear-cutting rain forests, and industrial-scale fuel processing. Do it yourself! Letʻs do it together!

This event is FREE
sponsored by the Santa Cruz Biofuels Cooperative, the Student Environmental Center, the Campus Sustainability Council, Porter College, Santa Cruz businesses + community members, and UCSC. Register with us at scbiofuels [at] gmail.com so we can adequately feed you. Catering by Convergence Foods! Let us know how we can accomodate any one with dissabilities or eating extremities. Register your alternatively fueled vehicle (car, bike, roller skates, whatever) so we can include it in our Expo Saturday afternoon, weʻll make sure you have a space to park your ride.

SCHEDULE
Saturday May 19th beginning at the Barn Parking lot at the base of the UCSC campus….
1-4 Bring your alternatively fueled ride + self, share conversion skills + music by Harry & the Hitman!
6-8 Dinner + more Live Music!
8-10 LOST FILM FEST with Scott Beibin: short, hilarious, inspirational films presented by our travelling host.
Sunday May 20th at the UCSC Womens Ctr
10-11 Opening Circle! coffee + tea
11-12 Biofuels 101
12-1 How to brew Biodiesel in your backyard
1-2 Lunch
2-3 Meet Ray Newkirk + Pacific Biofuels, learn about our local Biodiesel distributor
3-5 Open Space Networking
5-6 Closing Circle!
Added to the calendar on Fri, May 11, 2007 12:02AM
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