The Biodiesel Diaries is a projectby
Carlos Herrera and documentary filmmaker
Majo Calderon. Using an SUV modified to run on waste vegetable oil, they traveled from Oakland, California to Santiago Chile in 6 months. Along the way, they met with various grassroots organizations, created documentaries highlighting social and environmental prosperity, and built an online network to connect their students in Oakland to the youth in Latin America.
The introduction film was produced using various images and video clips created on the trip. The website is built on the WordPress CMS platform to facilitate the sharing of Carlos and Majo's work, with an integrated blog that they continuously updated as a travel journal.