Clean Air Everywhere!

Hunter Harvath from Monterey Salinas Transit was with us today. In early August MST plans to harvest some mustard seed which should create enough bio diesel to power one of their buses for an entire year. This project is sure to prove successful. It also shows how much of the seed would need to be planted to convert MST entirely to bio diesel. They do, however, plan to power all of their buses with 20% bio diesel which will reduce co2 emissions by 10-20%. Look on the MST website to find out about BIO-Easy, a workshop being held to demonstrate the bio diesel process.

Plug in Buses are a possibility in the future, however MST has six years before the will have to replace their buses. In six years, depending on technology, purchasing or retrofitting their current buses into plug in electric powered buses is a possibility. Wouldn't that be cool! Zero emissions whatsoever! Well we certainly hope that will happen in our near future. Hunter tells us that MST also plan to make their buses more bike friendly, with room to carry more bikes. At the bus stop shop down town Monterey, MST will be providing workshops to help riders become secure with bringing their bikes on board, etc. Please visit the One Stop MST shop down town Monterey. To conserve the energy of stopping and going, MST has also proposed fewer stops with longer distances between stops.
Hunter reminds us to be sure to take the Big Sur line down to Big Sur, now that they are back in business. Thank you Hunter!

Monthly Business Review:

Kevin Scherschligt from Clean Air Lawn Care, based out of Carmel spoke with us today. Clean Air Lawn Care uses 100% electric equipment, powered by wind and solar energy. Traditionally, lawn care businesses use gas lawn mowers, which dump carbon emissions and are completely inefficient and horribly polluting. CALC uses simple electric powered lawn mowers. 10% of total air pollution comes from lawn care. CALC would like to change this. CALC is completely carbon neutral. They have solar panels on their trucks to charge throughout the day, but plug in to the grid at night purchasing offsets to maintain the purity of the company. Traditional mowers cause air and noise pollution, and spill a lot of oil. Clean Air Lawn Care aspire to change that, and they are already well on their way!

They use Newton Mowers which are all cordless electric and cut wonderfully. Even their weed-wackers are less noise polluting, comparable to a hair dryer in noise level. Contact Clean Air Lawn Care or call (831) 541-5510 to get your service started! Scherschligt asks that we join him in his mission to eliminate gas powered lawn mowers.

As always thank you for listening, and have a great weekend!

Olana & Deborah