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May 9th, 2010 | 
Author: Undoubtedly, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico needs to be a wake up call for Americans to get off our addiction to oil for energy.
Presently, the news reports that 200,000 gallons of crude oil are spewing into the ocean daily. The first attempt failed and it could take months to plug it up. In the meantime – birds, marine wildlife, the fishing industry, and the tourism industry suffer. There are no borders in the ocean, so as this leak continues many more will be threatened by this catastrophe.
It didn’t have to happen. The Exxon spill gave us a wake up call, and all we heard from big oil and pitbulls with lipstick was “drill baby drill”. The Exxon spill didn’t even have to happen, except that Reagan repealed Carter’s attempts to put our nation on a more sustainable future.
And so we are here now with an opportunity. Obama faces this opportunity as well, the question is, will he step up to seize the moment of this crisis and make changes for a sustainable energy future in America?
We must move forward, NOW!
There is a bi-partisan (Liberman/Graham) bill that proposes to shift us toward greater energy efficiency. Besides automotive use of oil, I also think that those homes that are heated with oil in the Northeastern states could convert to geothermal and other resources given incentives such as tax credits (the kind Carter had in place that was actually doing some good). There is some talk about establishing clean energy tax credits and incentives for homeowners who make their homes more energy efficient.
The time for talk is over. Congress and the President must take action to move us forward on a long term path that will end out dependence on oil as an energy source.
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Monday StrivinToBeGreen.com had a technical glitch, but with me working into the wee hours of the night on it… we are back online and ready to go. I want to thank you for your patience with that and for your continued belief and support of the StrivinToBeGreen project.
We are now ready to begin the fundraising phase of this project. I’m asking you and others to ChipIn $4.22.
People who ChipIn $4.22 or more before Earth Day will be a Founding Member. What does that mean?
It means Founding Members will be helping to fund the start up costs (camera, cables, software, taxes and initial renovation projects). In other words, Founding Members will help to make this project possible.
What do Founding Members get? The knowledge that they helped make this possible. Also only Founding Members will get to nominate up to 10 environmental organizations that you want me to include on the ballot to benefit from the sale of the house. As we approach the auction date, all members will be given access to that ballot to vote one which organizations will receive the benefits and as a Founding Member you get to nominate which ones will show up on the ballot.
Once I have the Membership software set up, I’ll send you an email inviting you to activate your Founding Member account. If you decide you don’t want to activate your membership, it is the only email you will receive from me. As I develop the project I will continue to find other ways to thank Founding Members for helping me get this project started.
My goal is to have 10,000 Founding Members by Earth Day 2010. That’s about 100 Founding Members a day between now and then. It will raise enough to buy the house, get some production equipment and start some of the renovation on the house. Ten thousand is a lot of people, but I know that with your help we can find 10,000 people around the Earth who care about the Earth enough to ChipIN to make this happen.
Please, ChipIn right now, via Paypal so you know it is secure and it just takes 2 minutes.
Again, thanks in advance to you for your support!
