Big Green Bus in Telluride Monday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

26 Jul Big Green Bus in Telluride Monday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

[click “Play” to hear Susan’s conversation with Grayson Zulauf]

Monday, July 27, Dartmouth’s Big Green Bus plans to make a stop in Telluride. The vehicle, home for a group of 15 hand-picked Dartmouth students left campus on June 16. Before returning home to New Hampshire, the Big Green Bus will clock more than 12,000 miles through 40 states.

The Big Green Bus is not the first famous bus in America’s history. “Further” was a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964, for $1,500. “Further” was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic journey across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board and up to no good. (Further made a guest appearance at Woodstock.)

“Further” was fueled by Kesey’s counter culture revolution. The Big Green Bus is fueled by waste veggie oil and is all about advancing America’s green, one student, one mile at a time.

Equipped with a specially-modified engine, solar panels, an interior completely constructed of sustainable materials, and a host of other innovative technologies, the converted 1989 MCI motorcoach is a “green” classroom on wheels.

One of the passengers on board the bus this year (this is year #5 for the Big Green Bus) is former Telluride local, Grayson D. Zulauf. Click the “play” button on his podcast to learn more about the Big Green Bus.