Green Transportation
Calculate your transportation carbon footprint
Ann Arbor clean cities coalition
Hybrids and Smart Cars
A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to propel the vehicle.The term most commonly refers to Hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) which includes
internal combustion engines and electric motors.
Liquid Biofuels
Liquid Biofuels are beginning to play an ever increasing role in the quest for sustainable transportation. There are two primary liquid biofuels – Ethanol and Biodiesel. Biofuels are produced from a wide range of plant based stocks. The major advantage of biofuels are their ability to be mixed with, or substituted entirely for fossil fuels. Biofuels have much lower levels of harmful emissions when compared to petroleum.
More info at:
http://www.bioenergywiki.net/index.php/Liquid_biofuel
Local Alternative fueling stations map (biodiesel, etc.):
Straight Veg
Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) is a fuel for diesel engines that can be either pure new vegetable oil or waste vegetable oil that has been cleaned, although this is normally referred to as WVO. Vegetable oil used as fuel in a compression ignition or diesel engine is also referred to as vegidiesel or vegifuel. The most noticeable difference between an engine running on diesel and SVO is that the latter is quieter, but (with rapeseed based SVO) only produces 96% of the equivalent power of diesel.
The original diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil, so SVO (stright vegetable oil) burns well in some diesel engines. However, due to its relatively high viscosity, using SVO with unmodified vehicles can lead to poor atomisation of the fuel, incomplete combustion, coking in the injectors, ring carbonisation, and accumulation of fuel in the lubricating oil.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/converting_dies.php
Public Transportation
A2 GetDowntown Commuting Alternatives — Great webpage includes info about bus routes, Go! Passes ($5 bus pass for downtown employees), telecommuting,
bike and walking maps, and Curb Your Car Month:www.getdowntown.org.
The Ride bus system (Ann Arbor Transit Authority):
www.theride.org
U of M
U of M Zipcar:
U of M Transportation:
http://www.umich.edu/~info/transportation.html
Long Distance Travel
Michigan Flyer Bus — Non-stop transportation to DTW terminals for $15, leaves from the Sheraton Hotel by exit 177. Buses are clean and have wireless!
http://michiganflyer.com
Megabus — $26 to Chicago, cheap fairs elsewhere:
http://megabus.com/us
Amtrak — $11 to downtown Detroit, as low as $29 to Chicago:
http://www.amtrak.com/
Calculate your transportation carbon footprint:
http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/documents/op_carboncalcs.html
Bicycle Power
On nice days (or whenever you can), just ride your bike. They help you burn calories, stay in shape, get fresh air, and most importantly, they don’t consume fossil fuels. If you don’t know how to ride a bike, email me and I will teach you how (nate@burnsparkgreen.org)
Our local bicycle shop:
http://www.a2cyclery.com
Michigan Mountain Biking Association:
http://mmba.org
BP Ride Share (coming soon):
BP Ride Share is our message board for Burns Park carpoolers. Post where you live, post where you work. Find other people that live or work where you do. Share transportation costs. Make new friends. Buy each other coffee, tea, maybe a danish. Good things.
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