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Welcome to our latest edition of The Green Commuter. We provide you with upcoming transportation news in your area along with tips and ways to improve your fleets and communities. We appreciate your input so feel free to let us know how we're doing. Also, pass this email along to co-workers or friends to spread the word to improve Northern Indiana's quality of life and reduce our carbon footprint.
OZINGA'S CNG STATION OPENS IN GARY 
South Shore Clean Cities is proud to announce the official Grand Opening of Ozinga's latest public CNG fueling station at their facility in Gary, Tuesday, Nov. 12   
at 400 Blaine Street, Gary IN. 
Click here to view a list of all Ozinga's CNG station locations.
Source: InsideINdianaBusiness.com October 31, 2013

ROEHL'S CNG STATION OPENS IN GARY

Gary will soon have one of the largest compressed natural gas stations in the Midwest thanks to a partnership between U.S. Oil, Roehl Transport and H.M.D. Trucking. The station, which is under construction on 5th Avenue near Interstate 65, will be open to the public. Carl Lisek, director of South Shore Clean Cities, said the station will provide a number of benefits to the region.

Source: NWITime.com October 30, 2013

ALPHA BAKING SUCCESS STORY

The latest MotorWeek success story this week takes us to North Aurora, Illinois for a stop at Alpha Baking Company, parent of S.Rosen's and other popular baked-goods brands. After years of looking for an alternative fuel to fir their daily delivery needs, Alpha recently purchases 22 propane-powered bread trucks for the Chicagoland deliveries. With the assistance of South Shore and Chicago Area clean cities, Alpha worked with Roush CleanTech to develop the first propane Ford E-450 stepvan.

Source: MotorWeek October 30, 2013

GROWTH IN CLEAN ENERGY JOBS  

Month by month the clean energy economy continues to grow, creating new job opportunities for tens of thousands of Americans along the way, according to a new report from the non-partisan, nonprofit Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). E2's Second Quarter 2012 Clean Energy Jobs Roundup shows that from April 2012 to June 2012, more than 70 companies, cities, and organizations announced clean energy projects across the United States. Projects highlighted in the report could create more than 37,000 new jobs.

Source: U.S. Department of Energy August 23, 2012

BIODIESEL FUELED SCIENCE PROJECT

This winter, some residents might get a whiff of pizza when the snow plows go by, because those trucks will be running on fuel made from used cooking oil from a local restaurant. Students from Alan B. Shepard High School in Palos Heights had a big idea for a science project. But they didn't have space in their school to contain it...

Source: ABC 7 News October 26, 2013

HARVEST ENERGY THIS FALL SEASON
The staff of the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County reminds residents that all of those once-live fall decorations, such as pumpkins, gourds, leaves, mums, corn-stalks, hay, etc., are accepted at either the Valparaiso compost site, 2150 W. Lincolnway, or the Boone Grove compost site, 546 South 400 West. Organic materials brought to the sites will be added to the compost windrows to create a rich soil amendment available free to Porter County residents to use in their gardens during upcoming growing seasons.
Source: PortageLife.com October 28, 2013

 
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