Veggie Workshop - Gabrielle Louise Show

This presentation by Gabrielle Louise and Chris Garre, Tour Manager for The Gabrielle Louise Show, covers the motivations, the story, and the how-to of cutting carbon emissions and travel costs for anyone who drives a car.

smarter and cheaper!

"Touring around the country, giving the money earned from shows and cd's over to Exxon... that's a bit like converting enthusiasm for the arts into oil profits. Not cool."

~Gabrielle Louise

to alaska and beyond!

For over a year - 60,000 miles on the road - The Gabrielle Louise Show has toured using vegetable grease collected, for free, from restaurants. The tour van was converted to run on 100% waste vegetable oil at a cost of less than $1000.

Driving from coast to coast several times as well as to Alaska and back, The Gabrielle Louise Show has saved over $9,000 in would-be fuel costs and spared the atmosphere of over 11 tons of CO2 - the equivalent amount of CO2 release to power a 60-watt light bulb 24/7 for 20 years!

ridiculously simple!

Clean (filtered) waste vegetable oil, heated to 160+ degrees, functions the same in a diesel engine as petroleum diesel.

Waste vegetable oil has already served its purpose (cooking!) thus this second use comes free of any manufacturing, transportation, or pollution requirement.

Unlike diesel and gasoline, waste vegetable oil emits no sulfur oxides or sulfates (acid rain) and is 100% carbon-neutral (does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere).

The world-wide shortage of energy, combined with the increasing impacts of global warming will pressure many people to compromise their dreams and aspirations. That is, unless the individual is innovative enough to see these changes, not as restrictions but, as opportunities to explore possibilities outside the norms of the institutions of our time. The success of The Gabrielle Louise Show is a story of environmentalism and economy but, above all else, one of innovation.
~ Chris Garre, Tour Manager, The Gabrielle Louise Show

In The Press:

January 7, 2010 - The Green Musician
October 18, 2009 - Radio Interview on KFOG, San Francisco

Past Presentations:

May 27, 2010 | EcoVillage at Ithaca
April 23, 2010 | Iowa State University
April 22, 2010 | University of Northern Iowa
April 21, 2010 | University of Nebraska Lincoln
April 15, 2010 | University of Northern Colorado
November 7, 2009 | Far West Folk Alliance
October 30, 2009 | Willamette University
October 19, 2009 | Linfield College

This project is worthy of your attention and support... it promotes outreach and education about sustainability.
~ Kristen Grainger, Vice President, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

To Schedule this Workshop:

For more info on booking read the Concert Combo Booking Proposal. After that, Send an Inquiry or check the Tour Schedule to see when The Gabrielle Louise Show will be available to give a presentation in your area.