万花筒 2008-04-27&-4-28 植物油动力公车
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2008年
Welcome to our home.
Home for this quartet of eco-activists is a bus. And it’s touring the country to spread a message of sustainability. They call their effort bio-tour.
We are seeing a society that is not living sustainably, that is exploiting resources to the bare minimum. And we’re, you know, we can see it with the degradation 1 of our natural resources, with oil depletion 2, with anything out there.
They’re taking their message to college students and anyone who will listen. The bus itself is an example of sustainability. It runs on bio-diesel and used vegetable oil.
Restaurant owners or managers are more than willing to donate it to us, 'cause often times they have to pay to get rid of it , 'cause it’s a waste product.
Solar panels on the roof power rechargeable batteries.
And we use the energy stored in those batteries to power laptop, computers, cell phones and various electronic appliances.
Bio-tour plans to expand to a fleet of four buses this fall, coinciding with the presidential campaign.
We want a society in which we can all live sustainable, that relies on renewable energies, and an active and participatory democracy. It’s a human problem, and as humans we can solve it.
Rob Marciano, CNN.
- There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
- Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。