Willie Nelson and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance recognize environmental visionaries Adam Gardner & Lauren Sullivan of Reverb by presenting them with the 2009 SBA Visionary Award.
Since 2008 the SBA has honored an individual and an organization for their efforts in the field of sustainability, through biodiesel. Last year's recipients were the City of Portland, OR and City Commissioner Randy Leonard. This year's award was presented to Adam and Lauren for their work with their environmental non-profit Reverb. A visionary award was also presented to www.nearbio.com.
The SBA is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2006 to develop standards for sustainability in the biodiesel industry and for public education on how sustainable biodiesel can help the US move towards a sustainable energy future.
Reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans alike to take action toward a more sustainable future, through their website reverbrock.org and through work with music tours, like Guster's Campus Consciousness Tour. To date Reverb has helped tours source over 376,000 gallons of biodiesel and prevented over 62,000 tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere. Since 2004, Reverb has worked on over 70 major tours and 1,100 events, helped artists and fans reduce or eliminate over 62,000 tons of CO2, fueled trucks and buses with over 375,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel, hosted 1,700 environmental groups in their interactive Eco-Village, and reached over 8 million fans.
Nice work, Adam and Lauren!!