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 If you are a parent or guardian of a child who rides a school bus and want to get involved with getting biodiesel into your child's school bus, here are a few steps to follow.
1) Contact your local school district transportation department to find out if they use their own fleet or contract out to a private company.
2) When you find the transportation director here are some questions to ask them...
-How many diesel buses are in the fleet?
-How much diesel do they consume yearly?
-Have they heard of Biodiesel? If they haven't send them the link to the biofuels4schools site so they can learn more.
-Would they be interested in using Biodiesel in their diesel buses?
3) Send the above information above along with the information below to
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-Your school district name and location in the US
-Your contact information
-Contact information for the school bus transportation director
-Any other pertinent information you found out about
Once I receive this information, I would contact you to determine what the next steps would be.
4) Present your findings from your research to your school board. A powerpoint slide show can be provided.
5) Get other parents, teachers, and administrators of your school district involved with the Biofuels4schools campaign and send them to the Website.
6) Sign yourself and others up to the bi-monthly biofuels4schools newsletter (we do not sell your email address).
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Laguna High School students
As students, we've all had the chance to ride in a school bus, some of us daily and some of us only for field trips. The Biofuels4schools campaign serves those youth that ride the school bus daily because the exposure to harmful emissions from diesel exhaust has an impact on your future health.
Please support the campaign by following the list of action items listed for parents and guardians to get involved. You can make a difference in your school bus experience by learning more about Biodiesel and supporting the use of it in your school buses.
K-6 Join the Clean Air Club...youth can be involved in learning more about air quality and how Biodiesel helping to reduce harmful emissions. Join NOW
How Laguna High School Students got involved... You can even go a step further like the students at Laguna High School in Sebastopol, CA and do a feasibility study on how much waste grease is available from restaurants in your area to meet the demand of 20% of the total diesel consumed by your school bus transportation. Go to the Laguna High School Biodiesel Feasibility study to learn more about how they found enough waste oil in their area of West County to meet the demand of 16,000 gallons of Biodiesel needed to blend into their diesel per year.
Also check out the 3 minute video of the Laguna High School students on a field trip learning about how to make Biodiesel.
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