Guitar Maker & Dairy Farmer Find Eco-Friendly Common Ground

What happens when you an urban guitar maker living in downtown Los Angeles and a rural country dairy farmer and have them walk a mile in each other’s shoes?

From downtown to cow town, city scenes to milking machines, Jack Austin shows you how although these two will experience drastic differences they will also see surprising similarities between these two fascinating people living in the same damaged world.

We all know what it eco-friendly means but a lot of us fail to live up to the standard of actually staying eco-friendly. Some of us say it’s too hard to make it happen but Nick Pourfard the urban guitar maker and Brian Fiscalini the country dairy farmer really prove so many people wrong.

When we take a look into Brian’s dairy farm, Nick is so surprised on how he can actually be saving money with all of the machinery that he uses on a daily basis. But Brian, whose farm is known for its sustainable business practices, explains that he has really high producing cows that reduces their carbon footprint.

They use less feed and less water because they get more volume of milk from fewer cows. But wait that’s not all, as Brian explains it, being a steward of the land makes perfectly good business sense because nothing on his farm goes to waste, not even cow manure. That’s right, they actually reheat the manure to create electricity for the farm.

They have a technology called a methane digester where they capture all the manure from the cows, pipe it into a giant tank where it produces methane, and then that methane fuels an engine that creates electricity. They are producing so much electricity that they can power their neighboring communities in need.

When they head back to downtown L.A. to see how Nick operates his business, Brian was defiantly taken out of his element. Working out of his garage, Nick talks about how he’s saving used skateboards from the trash and he’s turning them into beautiful handmade guitars.

Nick also makes his own furniture out of reclaimed wood that he finds on the street. How cool is that!

So just when you thought being eco-friendly was a thing of the past. Many people tend to forget about being eco-friendly since they are living their lives the way they wish and seem to be seeing no repercussion but they are so wrong and our environment is solely dwindling.

These two individuals are making a huge impact in the world but it takes a little bit of contribution from everyone in order to restore the damage already made in the earth. So we want to know, how are you contributing and pushing to become eco-friendly?