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Portland Daily Journal of Commerce -- March 2008
The Seattle Times -- October 2007
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KZOK 102.5 FM, Seattle WA, The Bob Rivers Show -- October 2007
KING 5 TV, Seattle WA -- October 2007
KOMO 1000, Seattle, WA -- October 2007
KPTV FOX 12, Portland OR -- September 2007
The Lars Larson Show -- September 2007
1190 KEX, Portland OR -- September 2007
KATU Morning Show, AM Northwest -- September 2007
The Oregonian, Portland, OR -- September 2007
The Bend Bulletin, Bend, OR -- September 2007
Western RV News and Recreation, Pacific Northwest - August 2007
MoBoogie.Net -- June 2007
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- April 2007
The Watertown Daily Times -- March 2007
The Portland Tribune -- February 2007
The Huntsville Item -- February 2007
KEZI News, Eugene -- January 2007
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Contact: Ty Adams
(541) 654-1799
www.biotrekker.com
ty@biotrekker.com
Writer Embarks on “bioTrekker” Campaign to Share a Positive Vision
Ty Adams isn’t the first person to tour the country in a biodiesel-powered vehicle, but he may be one of the most committed. After five years as a writer and editor for RV industry publications in Eugene, Oregon, Adams sold his house, left a salaried position and invested over $30,000 to create a campaign designed to advocate biodiesel to the multitudes of RVers traveling the country each year.
“There are over a million diesel RVs out on the road, and very few are being fueled with biodiesel,” Adams says. “I’d like to play a role in changing that.”
Adams, 28, recently launched “bioTrekker — Motorcoach Adventures in Biodiesel” in Eugene, and for the next two years, he will live and work in a diesel motorhome adorned with the bioTrekker logo, traveling the country to expand biofuels awareness. With the exception of comparison tests, he’ll fuel the coach solely with biodiesel, a sustainable and cleaner burning fuel produced primarily from vegetable oil.
Now a freelance writer, Adams maintains a website at biotrekker.com, featuring the results of his research and other biodiesel information, as well as travel features, articles on the biodiesel industry, a blog and a forum for visitors to discuss site content.
“I’ll report honestly on how biodiesel works for me, and provide concrete field testing,” Adams says. “But I’ll also be out on the road, meeting face to face with thousands of people all over the country to talk about biodiesel and other biofuels.”
Before the campaign, Adams worked as a reporter and most recently as a magazine editor at RV maker Monaco Coach Corporation. That’s where he got the idea for bioTrekker.
“It was a natural fit,” he says. “There’s hardly any information about RVing with biodiesel, and no one inside the industry is publicly pushing biodiesel research, sustainability or energy efficiency. So I decided to be that guy.”
Among the benefits of biodiesel, proponents cite cleaner emissions, decreased dependence on foreign oil by investing in a renewable resource that channels money to U.S. farmers, and the possibility of increasing the fuel supply enough to lower prices.
“It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong, but I think there’s a lot more power in presenting a positive vision,” Adams says. “So that’s what bioTrekker is about. It’s about saying, ‘Look, here’s a really nice future, and here’s a seed to grow that. It’s small now, but we all have the ability to make it huge.’”
