*********************************************** NEW EARTH RISING 2008 Ecological Internet's Final Mid-Year Appeal for Support *********************************************** Gift the Earth at: http://www.ecoearth.info/donate/ For more information: http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/ July 10, 2008
Dear colleague, Ecological Internet's (EI) crucial mid-year fund-raiser is concluding, and we are making one last appeal for you to support our ground-breaking use of the Internet to achieve environmental conservation. At 82% to our goal, with $12,654 still to be raised, we remain short of our funding needs; though this equals last year and is adequate to continue. If even a few thousand more dollars are raised, it will have tremendous impact upon our ability to continue campaigning and innovating. Assuming several outstanding pledges (which have already been included in the total) arrive soon, our cash flow and funds will be OK to the end of 2008. Please mail in your pledges, and donate now at http://www.ecoearth.info/donate/ ! Thank you to the 264 people that have already. We strongly believe our ecological science based, biocentric information for action, offers something special to the online green community. EI's mission is to empower the global movement for environmental sustainability by providing portal services, information retrieval tools, expert analysis and action opportunities that aid in the protection of climate, forests, water, and ocean ecosystems; and to commence the age of ecological sustainability and restoration. EI (formerly Forests.org) has been operating since 1999 and has built the most comprehensive and popular environmental portals and search engines in existence, with hundreds of thousands of visits a month. EI has a long track record of success in achieving many environmental conservation victories with others around the world. We possess many assets including excellent brand name recognition, a huge truly global network, immense intellectual capital, and three high-end computer servers. We have already done much with this fund-raiser's support. Over the last few weeks we have updated our server hard drive space and configuration (accounting for some email and web outages), providing a strong technological foundation to work from for the next year. We have programmed a new news archiving method which cuts in half the time required daily to gather news. And some half dozen funding proposals have been submitted by our new part-time grant writer. Perhaps most importantly, in early June I took a two week vacation away from computers all together, the first time in many years. I am refreshed and health with a renewed commitment to this work, and EI will now be back at full speed. Ecological Internet has further big plans over the coming year to establish an "Ecological Sustainability News Desk" to produce topical biocentric media content regarding environmental policy, advocacy and science developments; launch a new e-zine of biocentric eco-solution focused essays and commentary by numerous authors, further develop Internet based protest capabilities, and update server technologies for more powerful searches and improved social networking. Our "Sustainability Solutions Initiative" think-tank will be further developed to promote implementation of ecological science based policy solutions adequate to solve converging global ecological crises. Your funding will allow EI to further increase its impact as a leading watchdog to dubious environmental practices around the world including "greenwashing". We will ensure the global public continues to have access to accurate and unbiased information, and the support to defend their local environments through a powerful and dynamic global network. What has been achieved has been through sheer force of will and at great personal sacrifices by, until recently, pro-bono programmer Matt Davis and me. Our ability to continue leading with sufficient ecological information, tools and action depends upon you. And so I ask for the last time to please donate now what you can afford at http://www.ecoearth.info/donate/ . Warm regards, Dr. Glen Barry President Ecological Internet, Inc. Ecological Internet's projects include: EcoEarth.Info -- http://www.EcoEarth.Info/ Climate Ark -- http://www.climateark.org/ Forests.org -- http://forests.org/ Water Conserve -- http://www.waterconserve.org/ Rainforest Portal -- http://www.rainforestportal.org/ Ocean Conserve -- http://www.oceanconserve.org/ My.EcoEarth.Info -- http://My.EcoEarth.info/ Dr. Glen Barry's personal "Earth Meanders" essays can be found at: http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
