EARTH ACTION: Emergency Appeal 2010 EI Mid-Year Fund-Raiser: 25% raised 43 donors, $37,362 to go
May 19, 2010 Dear colleagues, After an initial surge, Ecological Internets (EI) mid-year fund-raiser appears to have stalled at 25% to our goal. There is still time for you to donate, yet this is most dangerous to our future prospects. We are at an all time low on funding, due to a number of unique circumstances (below). The fate of the largest, most effective global network committed to ecological sustainability is in your hands. Please donate as soon as you can $50 or what you can afford at: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ . Ecological Internet has just been served papers in a civil SLAPP lawsuit meant to silence our voice. We are going to need funds to fight this lawsuit which comes from the coal industry and seeks to take away our domains and close our sites. Over the past year EI incurred major expenses to establish the Asples Madang project in Papua New Guinea. There we have established a fully staffed, office complex working on three major campaigns. In doing so we went tens of thousands of dollars into debt. Increasingly EIs biocentric, deep ecology message is getting through; threatening reformist NGOs, Earth destroying industries and their government. The fact that opposition is growing reveals we are influential and having a major impact. Yet our funding base remains small despite major growth in our network. Unless together we can raise more funding we risk losing the following: 1.) The only global campaign to end primary forest logging, just as its effectiveness soars. There will be no one to counter myth that sustainable forest management is desirable in old forests. 2.) The worlds leading environmental portals which provide unequaled biocentric newsfeed, portal search, analysis and action items. There is nothing like http://www.ecoearth.info/ and http://forests.org/ on the net, but they may be closing. 3.) The only major global network accurately assessing the depth of ecological crises, and fearlessly providing and promoting solutions adequate to achieve global ecological sustainability. 4.) The nearly completed and forthcoming book New Earth Rising: Revolutionary Options to Achieve Global Ecological Sustainability which is political ecology analysis and will begin to be serialized on the http://www.NewEarthRising.org/ web site on June 1st. Frankly, we need EI as a global grassroots rallying hub for truly sufficient global ecological policy. And one that is free from the corrupting influences of foundation and celebrity funding. Yet unless fund-raising picks up, I will be unable to continue running Ecological Internet, and will shut down after exhausting funds that are raised. Sadly this is not an empty threat, as we are nearly bankrupt after an extremely demanding year that saved Indian elephants, Brazilian Amazon from oil palm, and Madagascars hardwoods. A huge amount has been achieved over 15 years with raw energy and excitement. It would be a shame for this deep ecology affinity network to cease to exist because $37,500 could not be raised. Heck that is the travel budget of one big NGO staff person. Please, donate what you can now for global grassroots ecosystem advocacy at: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ Warm regards, Dr. Glen Barry President, Ecological Internet --- Please support Ecological Internet's campaigns to protect and restore old forests at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ 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]
