Page 1: Home Welcome to No Gas Required, your interactive resource for a cleaner environment. With global warming threatening the prosperity of future generations and dependence on foreign oil becoming an issue of international conflict, it is time to take a stand and make a difference. As students who have inherited a broken future, you must lead the way in repairing your environment. As students, activists, and trendsetters, you have the power to persuade colleges and universities to reduce their hydrocarbon footprints and make a positive environmental statement. No Gas Required aims to help students find creative ways to protect the environment and change the world. Join the revolution. Page 2: Learn As CO2 emissions proliferate, the positive power of electric vehicles becomes increasingly obvious. More than an instrument of transportation, the electric vehicle is a symbol, a metaphor, a conversation piece that brings about awareness, action, and responsibility. Younger generations are taxed with the unfortunate realization that it?s their future that is ultimately jeopardized by the current environmental crisis. Youth must invent and implement habits and behaviors that result in positive environmental change. It?s not too late to initiate life-long practices of awareness, consciousness, and action. In 2005, the transportation sector accounted for the greatest percentage of annual carbon emissions in the U.S. With 98% of transportation CO2 emissions resulting from the consumption of petroleum products, the electric car?s zero-emissions design could play a primary role in reducing vehicle pollution. Even beyond its inherent environmental benefits, the electric vehicle influences the way people think about driving and transportation in general. Because of its innovation and technical limitations, the electric car makes drivers more cautious, more alert, and more aware of their presence on the road as well as the efficiency of their travel time. Take action and send us information, studies, articles, and links that you believe contribute to the education of sustainability, electric vehicles, climate change, and the environment in general. Together we can spark a revolution and inspire a generation that is educated, empowered, and un-phased by the challenges that lie ahead. Page 3: Act Colleges and universities are at the forefront of emerging technology and serve as proving grounds for innovation. Students have a unique opportunity to campaign for carbon neutrality and propagate sustainable change. At No Gas Required, we believe that global society must quickly and substantially alter its transportation systems to assure a livable world for future generations. With gasoline-powered vehicles accounting for more than half of the hydrocarbon emissions released into the atmosphere each year, replacing traditional campus fleet vehicles with electric vehicles is one of the best ways universities can directly combat global warming. Through the combined efforts of No Gas Required and student led coalitions, the opportunity to serve as a catalyst for real change is more than a possibility; it?s a reality. Toolkit: (Downloads) Electronic petitions and/or link to our online petition Contact list for university sustainability officers Government Representative list o Standardized letter to reps Page 4: Speak Think. Write. Blog. Share your experiences and opinions on sustainability and the state of the environment with your peers. Page 5: Create Miles Revolution: ReThink. ReLearn. ReAct. Video Art Contest: Miles Revolution, a university specific interpretive video competition, challenges students to push the limits of their creativity and make a sustainable impact on their campuses. Using their own voice and style, students must broadly communicate the gravity of emissions pollution and emphasize how electric vehicles can make a positive impact on the environment. The rules are simple. College students must view the Miles Revolution video on YouTube and interpret it in their own, unique style through any medium of expression. The only catch is that student interpretations must be recorded and submitted in a video format that can be uploaded onto YouTube (please see below for specific formats). Contestant videos should somehow incorporate the ?No Gas Required? logo or tagline and have an overarching sustainability theme. The ten students whose videos garner the most views on YouTube will each be awarded a $1000 cash scholarship and a Miles Revolution electric vehicle for their school. Eligibility: Entries must meet the following criteria to qualify to win: 1. Student Participation: Students must be enrolled at least part-time at an accredited U.S. college or university. 2. Message & Artistic Merit: Each entry must be an original work of art?your style, your message, your medium of choice?with a clear ?No Gas Required? electric vehicle sustainability theme. Submissions must demonstrate quality thought, planning, and artistic effort. 3. Format & Public Visibility: Your video must adhere to the Miles Revolution format guidelines in order to be uploaded to YouTube. Prizes: Ten winners will be chosen based on the highest viewership of their videos. They each will receive: $1000 Miles Revolution Cash Scholarship Miles Revolution LSV ?awarded to the college or university, on the student?s behalf, to enhance campus sustainability efforts How to Enter: 1. View the Miles Revolution video on YouTube. 2. Interpret the Miles Revolution video using any medium so long as it is recordable. 3. Submit your entry form and upload your video to the upload portal on www.nogasrequired.com. 4. Ask your friends and peers to vote for your video on YouTube from November 16 to December 16. Video Format Specifications: Maximum file size ? 20MB Maximum file length ? 2 minutes File Formats: .wmv .mov .mpg .avi Recommended Format: MPEG4 format @ resolution 320x240 to 640x480 MP3 audio Important Dates: Video Submissions Accepted: September 15 ? November 15, 2007 YouTube Video Voting: November 16 ? December 16, 2007 Winners Announced: January 4, 2008 On-Campus Award Presentation: January 16, 2008 Contest Rules: All interpretations of the contest rules by No Gas Required are final. Only one entry per person is allowed. Videos may only be submitted once. Submissions must demonstrate quality thought, planning, and artistic effort. Sexually explicit, discriminatory, and graphically violent content is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Entries must contain a clear electric vehicle sustainability message. Entries must incorporate the ?No Gas Required? logo and/or tag. Entries must be the original, unpublished work of the contestant and cannot incorporate anything, in whole or part, owned or created by a third party or that would require the consent of any third party. Additional Conditions The contest is not open to employees or children of Miles Automotive Group. Contestants agree to forfeit all copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights of their video submissions to No Gas Required, 3100 Airport Avenue, Building A, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Each winner will be required to sign a release of liability in favor of the No Gas Required: Miles Revolution Video Contest. The prizes being awarded may constitute income under applicable federal, state and local tax laws. Winners choosing to accept prizes shall be solely responsible for payment of any and all taxes which may be due. By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees: they have read, understand and will comply with these official rules; to the extent permitted by law, consent to the use of the contestant?s name and school for the purposes of advertising and promotion by No Gas Required and/or Miles Automotive Group without further consent, compensation or approval. Page 6: Upload Entry form Directions on how to upload video