Road Trip Coming Soon!

The Ecology Center’s Green Machines Tour will be traveling from Minnesota to Michigan in late January, highlighting stories of how fuel-efficient vehicles and technologies are creating jobs and economic growth throughout the Midwest and engaging in dialogues along the way about new federal and state policies to encourage additional investments. The Road Trip will kick-off on January 19 at UAW Local 879 in St. Paul and work its way back to Detroit. Some of the planned stops include UAW halls, community centers, manufacturing plants, farms and biofuel production sites.

Once the Tour gets rolling, video clips, pictures, interviews and stories will be posted right here.  And, workers and others affected by fuel-economy, job creation or job loss will also be invited to submit their stories and comments, as well as take action to support our policy platform.

The Road Trip will aim to mobilize the public, and a wide variety of allies, to support new policy solutions, and will attempt to capture and publicize the dialogue about these policies at several levels, from the local autoworker to federal legislators, and will encourage citizen involvement in these policies as they are debated.  We hope the Tour will get real people talking about the policies that affect their lives - their employment, fuel prices, oil dependency, climate change and economic development in their communities.

Stayed tuned for updates beginning January 19!

The Green Machines Tour is a project of the Ecology Center.