Christian drives for free, in his 1980 Mercedes Benz 300 TD. This diesel wagon was converted to run on vegetable oil, and is powered with the recycled waste oil that the restaurants pay to have landfilled. It burns clean, is renewable, reduces greenhouse gases, and is virtually free. See how the conversion was done courtesy of Green Trust.
Steve Spence,Director, Green Trust
Green Trust, a renewable energy research center, powers their facilities with waste vegetable oil. Their 12.5 kw Detroit Diesel 2-71 generator (the VeggieGen) happily slurps used fryer grease instead of diesel fuel. It’s clean burning, renewable, and a recycled product that normally gets landfilled. See the details at www.green-trust.org…
Garbage foraging is not new, but we are here to make it respectable. We had a boost last year when thousands of middle class Argentinian families were filmed on the garbage heaps of Buenos Aires after the country’s spectacular economic collapse.
Mongo: Adventures in trash by Ted Botha (Bloomsbury $23.95) is a tribute to the garbage foragers of another city: New York.…
There’s something incredibly exciting about getting into an abandoned building — a huge, disused factory. It gets you right there, you’re scared and a bit disgusted because it’s dirty, but the size of it is just overwhelming. Never mind the dirt, the dust, the pigeon shit and the graffiti on the walls, we’ve just got into 4 storeys of free, empty, hundreds of square meters of space!…
I am the very model of a modern hunter-gatherer.
Its 7 on a Monday evening. My head’s hanging over a supermarket skip. Behind me, unawares, a stream of shoppers head home. By the time they’ve heaved their carrier bags into their SUVs , I’ll have probably enough food for a week. It’s the ultimate special offer: everything you need, free, any time you want it. Running at all stores, including the one near you, all year round.…
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