Chris Schneider - Bring America into the Zone: Zero Oil No Emmissions

Chris Schneider provides an overview of automotive design and fueling options that address oil dependency, climate change and rural economic re-vitalization. Chris discusses hydrogen, hybrids, biogas derived compressed natural gas, neighborhood electric vehicles, variable cylinder management and more. Recorded August 12, 2007 at the Sixth Annual Illinois Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair, Oregon, Il, sponsored by the IREA. http://www.illinoisrenew.org

Alisa Smith: The 100 Mile Diet - A Year of Local Eating

With declining oil and global warming a concern, why ship a vegetable 1,500 miles from farm to plate? To challenge this practice, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon ate foods grown within 100 miles of home one year. They discovered community, old-fashioned skills and the best-tasting food of their lives. Alisa Smith is co-author of The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (published in the U.S. as Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally). Recorded August 12, 2007 at the Sixth Annual Illinois