Summer is arguably the best season for road tripping. The warm summer nights invite a top-down ride (or at least all the windows down), exploratory stops to small, potentially unknown towns, and an easygoing spirit that is required for traveling without time constraints. You may have a different view of road trips thanks to the impossible beach travel and unfortunate increase in gas prices, but regardless, there is most likely a special place reserved in all our hearts for exploratory travel. If you stop by the National Sailing Hall of Fame at City Dock in Annapolis this Friday, you’ll discover some Dartmouth college students who road trip for a reason other than pure relaxation and exploration. You can’t miss this students–they will arrive at City Dock in a big green bus in the morning. Their mission: to speak about clean water and the Chesapeake Bay. Their reason: to inspire more green action amongst the community and encourage involvement in grassroots organizations and, not to mention, the Bay needs help. This “event” is free and open to all, so keep reading and plan to be there.
The Big Green Bus is an organization started and fully run by twelve Dartmouth students that’s now in its ninth year. Most of these students are majoring in environmental studies or hope to become engineers. Regardless of concentration of study, these students have a passion for speaking about going green and especially have a passion for learning about sustainable practices, going green, and becoming more cognizant of our impact on the Earth from others. The students have a long road ahead of them (literally): they started their journey just this week in Washington D.C. and will visit twenty-seven more cities across 12,000 miles of America. Even the bus the students travel on wants to spread the green attitude as it functions on biodiesel, meaning it is uses a greener fuel than diesel.
When the students arrive at City Dock this Friday at 9:30 a.m., they will entertain questions, offer up their ideas, interview people in the crowd, and speak how they individually became involved in this initiative. The students will compile the info learned at this Annapolis stop into a documentary to be done this fall. The students want to hear from you about the value of clean water and protecting the Bay–help these Dartmouth kids road trip with a purpose! Not only does this Big Green Bus visit allow for an exchange of green knowledge, but the event falls under the “Red Light Recycle” program initiated by Annapolis Green, which provides info and resources for green boating practices. The group is only docked at the Dock for two hours (until 11:30 a.m.), so get there before they leave for another city. Here’s a link to the press release from Annapolis Green: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-j1Ua1VdpkBGsOiAGWP1z5Yq-rakYNr2Gem7Boy5kfc/edit
Our friends at Annapolis Green alerted us of this big green event and truly, they function as a go-to for all green happenings and info. To keep up-to-date about upcoming green events in the area, check with Annapolis Green at www.annapolisgreen.com. If you want to know more about the Dartmouth Big Green Bus, head to www.thebiggreenbus.org.
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