Yesterday at around 6:45 the Big Green Bus stopped in front of the almost finished Leed-Certified Saranac Community Building. There was a punk band inside who invited us over for Vegan cup cakes, after we finished transferring 45 gallons of waste vegetable oil over to their bus. Lucas and Merritt liked the filtered stuff and mentioned the only places with good oil so far they encountered were Taco Bell and Wendy's, they didn't like the stuff they found in McD.
They have a pretty good on-board filtering setup that allows them to just dip off the top of the grease bins, and filter through these in the rear.
Lucas shows the custom gauges and modifications, they have not needed to wire the Vegthems yet, as they maintain a nice and hot 180 degrees for the oil.
Esther shows off the floors inside, really nicely done by one of the sponsors, EcoTimber.
There were several bunk beds inside the bus. These 3 students were happy with the break from having to all be in this bus, there is not much room for 11 students. They enjoyed the quiet of Spokane, no big fanfare. Tomorrow they head off to Glacier, it was neat to visit with them and hopefully they will make lots of people think about energy and sustainability and then act upon this increased awareness. After all, like Edward Abbey said, "sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul".
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