Thanks to everyone who has cast their vote for Wildlands Restoration Volunteers--over 1400 so far! It's a close race, but we're slightly behind first place. It's so gratifying to watch dozens of votes coming in per minute some of the time. Many people said they forwarded to all their friends or their entire company or posted on their club website or posted it on their myspace page. Wow, what creativity!
Now, imagine 100,000 people or more learning about the five fine organizations in this contest! Remember the concept of six degrees of separation? Are you curious to see just how far this could go?
THE BASICS Patagonia is opening a store in Boulder, Colorado. They set up a contest where you can vote anonymously online for one of five organizations. The organization with the most votes by March 29 wins $5000. Voting requires three clicks and seconds of your time.
Vote at http://www.patagonia.com/boulder or monitor the status of the contest.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIESOf course, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers would love to win the $5000 prize and use it to restore public lands in Colorado. HOWEVER, the real potential of this contest is to tell 10,000, or 100,000 or maybe a million people about the exciting work of these five fantastic organizations. That's far more important than the prize!
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers: healing the land, building community—connecting people with nature as we restore and protect our beloved public lands
Eco•cyle: working to build zero waste communities
Thorne Ecological Institute: bringing nature to life for kids
Rock the Earth: connecting music with environmental conservation
Prairie Dog Coalition: protecting imperiled prairie dogs and restoring their ecosystems
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Forward this email (or a summary) to all your friends, family and co-workers.
Invite them to get caught up in the excitement of this contest and tell their friends.
Post this contest on lists, blogs, MySpace, FaceBook, your website, etc…
Maybe even make a funny video about it for YouTube.
The sky is the limit!
You know how the internet is. Things can explode in popularity if enough people get excited about it.
WHAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERSWildlands Restoration Volunteers organizes over 30 volunteer projects per year in northern Colorado. We restore streams and wetlands, restore wildlife habitat, build or maintain trails, obliterate old roads, restore wildfire damage, restore low land prairie and high alpine tundra, remove invasive weeds, and more. Each year, our work improves and/or protects thousands of acres of wildlife habitat, prevents severe soil erosion from numerous causes, improves water quality in our Colorado streams, helps to prevent wildfires, enhances recreational trails, and so much more.
Since 1999, we have completed a diverse range of over 140 projects involving many thousands of volunteers, who have contributed over $1.7 Million in volunteer time toward the restoration and stewardship of Colorado public lands.
But honestly, the greatest impact of our work reaches beyond the thousands of hours of volunteer labor on the ground. WRV is all about people—building community and connecting people with nature in deeply satisfying ways. WRV provides skills, education, tools, and a vision of hope that catalyzes people to fall in love with places and realize that they can work together to restore and protect those places and make a real difference in the world.
To learn more about our volunteer opportunities, trainings, and see thousands of great photos of our volunteers in action, see our website at www.wlrv.org.
VOTE COUNTINGMany people have been asking us how the votes are counted, thinking someone could just vote over and over. Actually, the voting website remembers that you voted on your computer, so you'll only be counted once no matter how many times you click "vote." If the tally appears to go down, just refresh or re-open your browser and you'll see the correct tally.
THANK YOUto Patagonia for their community-minded generosity in setting up this fun contest and selecting WRV to participate.
Happy voting!
Ed SelfExecutive Director
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Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
2515 East Sterling Circle, Suite 201
Boulder, CO 80301
303-543-1411
www.wlrv.org
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