Frequently Asked Questions
  • What Is the Sustainable Living Roadshow?
    The Sustainable Living Roadshow (SLR) is a coalition of educators and entertainers who tour the country in a fleet of renewable fuel vehicles to empower communities and individuals to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier planet.

    SLR was sprouted from the collective ideas, experiences and networks of the Clean Fuel Caravan Coalition (CFC). With over 700,000 miles of combined touring experience through the US, West Africa and Central America, our partners represent global leaders in a grassroots movement built to shift consciousness and empower solutions for a more sustainable and beautiful existence on Earth, with all living things.

  • Who Are the Members of the Sustainable Living Roadshow?
    SLR is built as a container for local and global organizations, businesses, educators and entertainers representing best management practices in their respective field. Our coalition has come together to introduce, educate, replicate and empower communities with new models of sustainability. By partnering with over twenty-five existing groups, we avoid recreating the wheel and empower people and organizations with a national platform to spread their specialty messages. We are constantly searching for new groups to plug into the platform we have created. View the SLR Partners page for the full roster:
    » SLR Partners Roster

  • Where Can I See The Sustainable Living Roadshow Live?
    SLR is launching our 2008 Tour at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Our goal is to provide an omni-partisan perspective towards strategies for a healthier planet. We will end our tour with several days of celebrations in Los Angeles leading up to the US elections. Additionally, SLR events and life on the road will be broadcast live on the SLR website.

    Visit our Tour Page for a full list of upcoming events, plus an interactive map with more info about each stop on the Tour.
    » SLR Tour Dates and Interactive Map

  • How can our city support the SLR?
    SLR is designed as a national platform created for local integration. We are working to co-produce events locally with city stakeholders: PTA’s, Unions, School Boards, Chambers of Commerce, City/State government, Colleges and Universities, non-profit organizations and more. This way, the focus of each tour is unique to the community we tour through and local resources, information and organizations empower people with bioregional solutions.
    » Find Out More About Participating Locally with The SLR

  • What are Sustainability Councils?
    By working with a variety of stakeholders from within the community, we create a collaborative local project designed for each communities benefit. As people from different city departments begin working together on the SLR, a clearer and more holistic vision of a sustainable community will come into focus. The SLR is designed as a tool to bring different stakeholders together to form Sustainability Councils, intended to remain well-after the SLR leaves town.

  • What does it mean that “SLR events are off the grid and zero-waste?”
    The term off the grid refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. All of SLR’s events will be powered by solar power and biofuel generators. All of SLR’s vehicles will run on a variety of clean fuels (not included coal, because Clean Coal is an oxymoron).

    Zero-waste means that SLR will work aggressive to ensure nothing makes it to the land-fill: all of our food will be composted, our carbon-footprint will be offset with direct tree planting, everything will be recycled and we do not use disposable or to-go containers.

  • This is big! Have you ever done this before?
    Members of the SLR have been organizing sustainability education and entertainment tours and events for many years. We have collectively logged over 700,000 miles of touring experience through the US, West Africa and Central America; we have developed over 7 non-profit organizations; participated in over 50 festivals since 2005, produced over 10 of our own festivals, been on the cover of US Today, in the NY Times, on the Today Show and more.

    In 2004, we were mostly grassroots organizations on the cutting edge of creative sustainability information dispersal. Part of the reason biofuels is in the English vernacular and collective consciousness of the world is due to all the miles of promotion, press and education from our partners over the years. This information has now gone mainstream, and we are evolving with the movement to stay on the cutting edge of creative information dispersal. We are evolving to fit the times and equipping communities with the information and empowerment options and strategies they need to understand to live more sustainably.

    This is our first time bringing such a large network together on the road. All of our experiences, trails and errors, developments, networks and resources have brought us to the vision we are creating today, an organic evolution of what has taken place in the past.
    » SLR History and Past Events

  • Did you say that the SLR is going to be broadcasted as a national television show?
    Not just yet, but we are working on it! We have prepared a treatment and proposal to bring the SLR messages and tools to the millions over the TV waves! We have been approached and are in communication with several television networks about broadcasting the SLR as a television series. This aspect of the project will help launch these ideas and information more quickly into the mainstream and introduce millions of people through the airwaves to SLR events! Stay tuned to see how it unfolds!

  • How have you been funded in the past?
    Since its inception, the SLR has been ninety-five percent volunteer organized and funded. Starting in 2005 at the Magic Funk Palace in San Francisco, we began weekly community brainstorms to discuss different models of sustainability organizing and education. In the Fall of 2006, a small team has been volunteered their full time energy to formalize and develop this vision into a reality. We have dedicated our lives and sacrificed many comforts taken for granted in this country to bring this project to the level and clarity we operate at now.

    We are currently sustaining the vision with a generous donation from a very special community leader, and want to thank all that have contributed to keep this project moving forward.

    We are actively soliciting donations, sponsorships, grants and partnerships to make this vision a reality. We believe in the new paradigm of livable wages and a sustainable lifestyle on the road, and we need the support of our friends, family and fellow humans to make this a reality.

  • Can we put our link/logo on the SLR website?
    Our web-space is reserved for partners, businesses and organizations representing social and environmental ethics, integrity and positive action. If you are interested in co-branding or ad-trades with the SLR, please contact us.

  • Can we help by advertising the SLR on our website?
    Absolutely!
    » Click Here for SLR Links and Media Downloads

  • How does SLR plan on integrating programs into communities?
    SLR is a national tour with localized focus. We present a platform for local organizations, individuals, businesses and educators to take leadership in their communities path towards a sustainable future. We have 5-8 programs that we integrate into k-12 and college classrooms. These programs are intended and designed to create leaders and replicate existing programs across the country. Additionally, our Legacy Projects are developed to integrate successful models of environmental education, community organizing, natural building and conscious consumerism into existing community infrastructure.

    Some examples are: Green Ambassadors trains youth to be leaders in teaching their peers about sustainable living strategies; Biofuels4Schools trains high school students to get their administrations to switch to biofuels; Youth Empowerment America brings natural building into the public domain; Peopls Fuel cooperative brings a successful system of identifying cities waste vegetable oil as a public sector commodity to be used as fuel for public interest fleets; Edible School Yards brings community garden and healthy school meals into educational institutions curricula.

    Additionally, SLR is designed to create a platform for local businesses, organizations, individuals and programs to be showcased. At each event, local green businesses will be showcased, renewable energy installers and manufacturers will be available to answer questions and talk with potential clients, local heros will have the platform to teach workshops, local farmers will be selling their food, local healers will be demonstrating their practices and local non-profits will be advertising their organizations missions.

    SLR is also designed to introduce communities and college students to conscious forms of business and organization. By demonstrating new transparent and triple bottom line models of business and the companies that stand by these practices, we are able to shift the job market demand to a more sustainable and conscious way of living and doing business.

  • SLR runs on biofuels, is that what these tours are about?
    Since 2003, SLR partners have run their tour buses on recycled vegetable oil and biodiesel. Over the years, the biofuel market has expanded and become more mainstream causing much of the integrity behind the industry to be lost. Ethanol and Soy farmers around the world are using chemical pesticides and GMO’s to boost crop production while not taking into account the large-scale damage and environmental degradation of their farming and business practices. Rainforests in Indonesia and around the world are being cut down for biofuel feed-stock mono-cropping, family farms are being put out of business by corporations like Mansanto who create patents on living seeds, watersheds are being destroyed by large agro-chemical corporations. Once again, people have forgotten the reason we are utilizing biofuels, and turned a potential beautiful solution into a corporate single-bottom-line industry.

    SLR utilizes straight vegetable oil as an example of thinking outside of the box, eliminating the concept of waste and recycling a local resource. We do not promote this as a national option to replace petroleum, but as an effective tool that motivated individuals can use and as a means of touring for cheaper and demonstrate the potential of alternative energy sources. Additionally, we use biodiesel (different from recycled vegetable oil) in our fleets as a means to showcase the mainstream viability of local and national alternatives to petroleum. We promote the use of sustainably harvest and GMO-free biofuels and acknowledge that it is going to take the integration and utilization of a variety of different technologies and fuel sources to replace our countries petroleum addiction.

    Through this process, we must keep the mindfulness of interconnection and not forget through the temptation of rapid business growth and development the importance and responsibility we have to shift our patterns in a sustainable way. This does not mean that a switch towards renewable energy and sustainable business will hurt the economy. What it means it we must keep the triple bottoms line (people, place and profit) at the forefront of our minds and in our hearts, and we will begin to see a shift around the world in quality of life, happiness and health.

  • Do you think biodiesel is the answer?
    When produced organically and sustainably, biodiesel provides a wonderful solution to localized fuel production and utilizes existing infrastructures. But we need much more then just biodiesel to change our trends. Even if all of our fallow crop-land was converted to biofuel feedstock, all of our animal fats and used vegetable oil was turned into biofuel and all of our ponds were converted to algae, it would replace only ~25 percent of the petroleum used in this country. Biofuel is one of many options we will need to integrate in order to fully reduce our petroleum dependency and begin to mitigate and reverse the trends of global warming.

  • How do organizations get involved the Sustainable Living Roadshow?
    SLR is built as a container for socially and environmentally conscious organizations to come together to outreach, educate and promote on a platform larger then any individual involved. We are constantly searching for local and national projects to join us on the road.
    » Click Here to Find Out How To Participate in The SLR

  • How do we bring the SLR to our college or town?
    SLR is constantly looking for new communities to collaborate with. Between the main SLR tour, our plans for organizing and empowering local copy-cat tours, and our replicable event frame-work of the Sustainable Living Village, there are many ways to get your school or town involved.
    » Click Here to Find Out How to Participate in The SLR

  • Can I rent the conscious carnival games for our event or school?
    Yes!
    » SLR Online Booking Request Form

  • Do you have vehicles or infrastructure that could be rented out?
    Yes. The SLR acts as a central organizing and networking hub for over 25 touring bus groups across the country. In the off-season, many of the infrastructure and tour vehicles are available for rental.

    Coming Soon! Rent SLR members infrastructure to help keep you own tour and events green!

  • Do you know someone that can convert our vehicle to run on vegetable oil or biodiesel?
    Yes. We have developed a national resource bank of companies and individuals across the country who can convert your vehicle.

    Coming Soon! Click here if you want to register your business or individual into a Vegetable Oil Fuel conversion collective.

  • Can I come on the road?
    We will be opening our doors, family and project to applications in May. Please stay tuned for more information.

  • Can our business sponsor the SLR tour?
    SLR has developed the most holistic and powerful marketing platform available in the industry today. For businesses leading the way in social and environmental integrity or businesses looking to improve your companies environmental and social image, this is the project to get involved in. You will have the ability to reach millions of interested viewers through our large traveling caravan, our events, our television program and our viral web 2.0 media and social networking strategies. We hold our sponsors to high levels of social and environmental responsibility, while at the same time, holding space for and rewarding businesses that are embracing change and integrating sustainable business practices into their new business models. Groups who get involved now will have the right to first refusal for years to come!
    » Find Our More About SLR Sponsorship

  • Can I volunteer to work with the SLR?
    Absolutely! We are constantly looking for additional help at the local and national levels. Working with the SLR gives you the opportunity to apply your passions to something much larger then yourself! This organization is designed for your passions and area’s of expertise to plug into. Your help is extremely valuable, effective and appreciated and we hope you get involved!
    » Find Out More About Volunteering with The SLR

  • Can I get credits for college internships?
    Yes. SLR is a national non-profit organization, and we can help work with your school to gain internship credit for getting involved.

  • Can we showcase our product or technology at SLR events?
    Do you have an amazing “green” product you want to get in front of a local or national audience? Are you familiar with technologies that will blow peoples mind? Does your business present new models of triple bottom line ethics? Please let us know, as we are holding space for the most important and resolutionary inventions and products to join us on the road.
    » Contact The SLR

  • Can SLR include my book, magazine or zine in the Eco Info Area?
    SLR is looking for conscious book publishers, magazines, green zines, how-to guides, environmental education curricula and more. If you are a publisher or connected to any of these and are interested in being included in our mobile Eco-Info zone, please contact us.
    » Contact The SLR

  • How can I donate to the SLR?
    The SLR is a national non-profit organization. All donations of product or money can submitted as a federal tax write-off. Additionally, SLR is developing a new transparent and decentralized approach to fund-raising. We have identified every job and infrastructure and its’ associated cost to bring that element on the road. Individuals and businesses can donate to specific initiatives to ensure elements that resonate with their passions are present at our events. Rather then donating to the organization as a whole (which is still encouraged!), you can see exactly how your contribution will help bring our collective vision closer to reality. We are working on finalizing the technology behind this new fund-raising model.
    » Find Out More About Donating to The SLR

  • Can donations be used as a tax write-off?
    Yes. We are a tax-exempt organization and any donations will be made through our Fiscal Sponsor, the Foundation for Global Sustainability.
    » Find Out More About Donating to The SLR

  • How can we help organize locally for the SLR?
    We are looking for a lot of help locally. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in bringing the SLR to your town, in local networking and promoting, setting up our events and more.
    » Find Out More About Participating Locally with The SLR

  • Can SLR do a presentation at our school?
    We are currently accepting requests from K-12 and colleges classrooms to integrate SLR programs into the classroom. We have a variety of amazing programs and organizations that offer creative education around a healthier planet.
    » Find Our More About The SLR and Schools

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