Jack Johnson is greener than Radiohead

how is Green Day not number one?
fuckers

What about Green Jello

Cee-Lo Green?

I heard his farts were eco-friendly....

and this is after dave's tour bus used a river as
a sewer...

Boston based post-rock band Constants modified a school bus to run on waste vegetable oil. They've also been doing it for years, as opposed to all the companies and musicians and people of the world that decide to give a shit about the planet for a couple weeks every April.

who cares about green - i actually like the warmer weather. bring on global warming!

This whole green thing is so trendy and most are just jumping on the bandwagon. mewithoutYou from Philly has been running waste vegetable oil (as I do) for years as well.

J, (or others in the know)
just curious, but how does waste veg. oil emissions compare with diesel or gasoline engines?

"just curious, but how does waste veg. oil emissions compare with diesel or gasoline engines?"

Well they make you hungry instead of making you sick...

Who cares?

Hey, let's judge bands based on stuff other than their music!

Yay!

While we're at it, let's make a list of top 10 garbage men, based on how familiar they are with 14th century Danish painters... or top 10 animal-loving brain surgeons.

It would be about as worthwhile.

That's absurd. How is it not worthwhile to care about a band's politics, views, philosophies, etc? Is it any different than caring about a writer's or painter's?

The benefits of a conversion are more than economic. Vegetable oil is a renewable resource derived from plants, which by nature absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis. Vegetable oil is thus “carbon neutral”--burning it merely releases stored CO2 back into the atmosphere and therefore contributes no new greenhouse gases to the environment. By contrast, burning gasoline in a traditional engine releases CO2 that had been stored underground in oil, and thus contributes to global warming. Vegetable oil also burns cleaner than regular diesel, spewing no sulfur and much less particulate and carbon monoxide.

"Boston based post-rock band Constants modified a school bus to run on waste vegetable oil. They've also been doing it for years, as opposed to all the companies and musicians and people of the world that decide to give a shit about the planet for a couple weeks every April."

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2008 11:29 AM

Philadelphia based anarchist hardcore punk band R.A.M.B.O. did as well. And they are actually good!

J, you are incorrect. By planting crops where there once were trees, you are losing significant carbon absorption. In fact, most biofuels require energy to convert into a usable form, thus negating any supposed carbon neutrality. Then there is the effect on the global food supply, which is currently resulting in massive rates of inflation for basics such as rice, especially devestating for the so-called developing world. Furthermore, there is no chance these fuels could ever replace coal and oil, neither could wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar ever power our heavy industry. The answer, my friends, is nuclear power. Wow, when you tell veggie-headed liberals that the solution (or part of the solution) to global warming is a massive increase in nuclear power, they sure go bonkers. I've tried again and again to make this case, but they just won't listen. So cry over the dead polar bears, and move inland, my friends.

That's nice, except for the fact that biodiesel is playing a major role in the skyrocketing cost of food all around the world which threatens to lead to widespread hunger and the destabilization of governments in the third world. Increased biodiesel use has also increased the rate of the destruction of the rainforest as more and more land is being cleared to grow soybeans to fuel Jack Johnson's bus.

There was a major cover story all about this in Time magazine about a month ago.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975-1,00.html

RIGHT ON! I HATE POLAR BEARS! but they're so cute!!!

There's something arrogant about that bus. You might as well should paint "ELITIST" on there ...... in watercolor of course, please, no noxious paints!

1. How is it elitist or arrogant?
2. Using waste vegetable oil for fuel does not skyrocket food cost. It's waste...aka trash. Growing plants specifically for biodiesel production does do that, but using svo does not.

Oh, that bus!? Sorry. I agree. I thought you were talking about the waste vegetable oil busses that were mentioned.

"In fact, most biofuels require energy to convert into a usable form, thus negating any supposed carbon neutrality."

Once again, I am talking about waste vegetable oil, which only needs to be heated. There is no conversion (except for rerouting your coolant system to an auxiliary tank holding the fuel).

green river!!!

willie nelson does use a lot of green products. heh heh heh

whatever--jack johnson is still the jimmy buffett of now.

Cloud Cult's self founded eco-friendly record label means nothing? as usual mainstream news is worthless.