News - The Expeditions is currently in Phase 1: Fundraising (The Tough Bit)

Esther and I have been nominated for the British Gas Green Guardian Award. We find out if we've won it next month.

We've been researching routes, and looking for places where people make interesting use of sustainable energy resources (wind farms, waste recycling...). If you have any suggests email them to us.

We are also fundraising at the moment. We are approaching funding organisations for grants as well as companies for sponsorship.

Andy is spending his spare time scouring E-bay and Commercial Trader with the excuse of finding an expedition vehicle. - Geek.

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Coming Up - Come and meet the
Energy for a New Perspective Expedition team;

European Biofuels Expo and Conference.
Newark, UK. 15 & 16th October 2008

EuroChocolate Marketing Fair
Perugia, Italy. 22nd October 2008

Royal Geographic Society Expedition Planning Conference, Explore.
London, UK. 21 - 23 November 2008

Look out for us in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine “Eco Hero” feature. Coming soon.

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Energy for a New Perspective” is an ambitious journey around the world powered entirely by sustainable energy sources. Andy and Esther will drive, sail and even fly around the world using renewable fuels to propel them.

Andy says: "There’s no question that we all need to change our behaviour when it comes to energy consumption, but we’re hoping to prove that doesn’t mean giving up what you love, in our case travel. It just means discovering new ways to do it."

The team will be driving a bus converted into an eco-home with gadgets to make their every aspect of thier life on the road “low-impact” and it will be fuelled by waste vegetable oil, biodiesel, hydrogen made and solar energy.

Along the way the duo will be flying electric paramotors over towns, villages and countryside filming from the air. After each flight they will project the aerial images onto a screen on the side of the bus, showing local people their environment from a new perspective.

Esther says: "We want to engage with people along the way and find out how they get their energy and how they feel about carbon emissions in countries like Iran, India, China and Brazil."

Read about our previous expeditions:
The Chocolate Powered Lorry To Timbuktu and
The Grease to Greece Rally - Across Europe on Scavenged Chip Fat

We're pleased to say that over 20 million people have seen, heard and read about sustainable fuels through our previous expeditions. Here's just some of the press coverage we've had...

BBC1 | BBC World | ITV | ITN |  Sky  | CBS  | Reuters |  RTL
The Times |  The Guardian |  The Independent | The TelegraphDaily Mail | Daily Mirror | The Sun | Metro | BBCi
Spiegel | Le Figaro | Le Point | РИА Новости | O Globo
The Globe and Mail | New Zealand Herald
BBC World Service | Deutsche Welle

Departure: June 2009
Duration: 12 months

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