Lighthouse Music and their Green Machine
Lighthouse Music, an au courant band of musicians from St.Augustine, Florida, thrive not only harmoniously but tactfully, as well. The musicians just finished a three-week East Coast tour. They played places ranging from Asheville, North Carolina to Brooklyn, New York. Before the tour, the band converted a school bus they bought to run entirely off of veggie oil! They installed two auxiliary fuel tanks under the bus as a way to store the vegetable oil. In a nutshell, the vegetable oil has to be heated before burning in a diesel engine, so the engine coolant heats the oil, which allows it to run through the engine. Once the oil has been heated, it may flow through the fuel lines and into the engine. It combusts just like diesel, and is even cleaner and smoother than diesel. The oil, when burnt, is carbon neutral. This means that it does not put any new CO2 into the atmosphere because the oil simply releases the carbon absorbed by the plants used to make the veggie oil.
Apart from their conscious effort to be kind to the earth, Lighthouse Music also creates some of Northeast Florida’s most diverse art, as all of the members play multiple instruments and listen to various fusions of music.
You can give them a listen on their Myspace or go to their website to savor the Lighthouse Music melodies.