Cassandra Lin, 2013 Brower Youth Award Winner
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2013
- New England winters can be harsh, especially for those who can't afford to heat their homes. When she was in fifth grade Cassandra Lin learned that used cooking oil could be converted into cheap, clean-burning biodiesel to heat homes. photo of a young womanThe same year, 2008, Lin founded Turn Grease Into Fuel (TGIF), a youth group that gets local restaurants to donate their kitchen grease to be recycled and shared with charities that identify families who need heating assistance. So far, Lin's outfit has helped offset more than 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions by promoting the use of biodiesel. In 2011, Lin and her team drafted a bill that required all businesses in Rhode Island to recycle their waste cooking oil and worked with local legislators to get it approved. State lawmakers passed the Used Cooking Oil Recycling Act in June 2011 and the law went into effect in January 2012, expanding TGIF's efforts into neighboring communities. The network of local businesses and charities that Lin and her team created is itself a well-oiled machine that addresses the needs of community members and reduces waste and pollution.
Cassandra, you and your team are amazing people. Thank you for making a difference!
wonderful, I love this initiative so much and wish I had her enthusiasm
Amazing insightful so proud of your group of young people............
I want a daughter like you.
I want a mother like her :D
respect , wish i could do something like that at you're age !
Kids leading the way. Go Cassandra 👍🏽
Lots of places have been doing this sort of thing for close to 50 years now.
*****
I remember reading about this in the early 1970s. Various companies in Brazil were doing it, mostly to fuel commercial vehicles. As I recall it was a fairly mature technology and had been going a while.
Amazing and inspiring : )
Phenomenal ! ❤❤❤
Every community with a lot of restaurants should have something like this. How is this being financed, though?
Meet The Girl Who Changed A Whole Lot Of Lives With Something We Throw Away
Kudos to the over-30-year-old business owners who agreed to support this initiative. Kudos to the over-30-year-old PM's that green-light videos like this and help them go viral. Kudos to the over-30-year-old parents who foster projects their children develop.
Yes, within the first few minutes, she knocked the over-30-year-old crowd. Epic fail!! Kudos to those that understood my statements. You must live in the now.
how is this project sustainable? I would like to know so maybe we could do this in southamerica for providing people cooking fuel. Thanks
Hi! Cassandra here - the program is sustainable because since we partner with existing companies (grease collectors, biodiesel refiners etc), the program is producing oil every month and will therefore continue even if we stop actively working on it! Please contact me if you're interested in starting this in South America - that would be SO cool. Check out our website too @ www.w-i-n.ws
Is there any way to get this started in other states also?
Who converts it to Biofuel ??
Please allow people to add captions for the Deaf & hard of hearing, or add them yourself
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Imagine! If everyone were working on similar bio-responsible, Earth-friendly projects right at home where they live. I wonder how long it would take to clean this planet up and get it running smoothly? I think this up and coming generation can succeed where others have failed! Show all us old farts what it means to respect Mother Earth! We need a good dose of it and "she" needs a hero!
Change your daily activities: Bike instead of drive, use minimal traditional electrical power, switch to wind and solar, grow your own food, use traditional/reusable methods for food and water storage, save seeds, live green, reuse as much as possible and share with a neighbor anything and everything you conceivably can (1 of something shared between 5 families is better than 5 of something for just one guy), don't buy disposable anything, play outside more often with lots of friends and less inside, all alone, on some tech gadget ran by electricity, trade clothes with friends and family instead of always buying new, and MOST Importantly, whenever possible... Never stop thinking up new ideas to make the world a better place. Love and be loved!
who voted this down lol
What's "down lol"?
Was looking and someone actually voted this thumbs down. lmao 2 People to be exact. lol