Carma: Sustainable Fuels Seminar

Leading up to Transmission, Columbia is hosting a 3 part seminar on sustainable fuels! Tuesday through Thursday of next week, there's something going on every afternoon. Check it out:

Tuesday -- Sustainable Fuel Symposium
Tuesday, May 13th, 5-6 PM, Ferguson Auditorium
600 S. Michigan, 1st floor

Dr. Laurens Mets from The Department. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at The University of Chicago will deliver a talk titled, "Toward energy independence and an end to global warming - lessons and solutions from biology"

He will be discuss his work, conducted with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Labs, in bioengineering algal plants to create hydrogen that can then be used as an energy source and other ways that biology is addressing the global warming crisis.

Wednesday -- Film Screening: Freedom Fuels
Wednesday May 14, 4PM
Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, Room 109

Renewable fuels from a global perspective. Appearances by Daryl Hannah & Willie Nelson. Produced and directed by Martin O'Brien.

Thursday -- BioTour
Thursday May 15, 4-6 PM
Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash, Room 109

Renewable Energy rolls into Columbia!

BioTour, a cross-country journey on a vegetable oil-powered school bus, has arrived in Chicago. Co-directors Ethan Burke and Alan Palm, photographer Jenny Sherman, and Outreach Coordinator Fernando Ausin have traveled across 40 states and covered 28,000 miles fueling their bus on waste vegetable oil from restaurant fryers and generating electricity from solar panels on the roof. Their mission is to educate people about climate change, peak oil, renewable energy and participatory democracy while exploring the country along the way.