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If you've not heard, there's a site collecting ideas for ways in which
people think we should change the US called "Ideas for Change in
America".
As you know, using multiple measurement systems has a huge negative
impact on our economy and makes education more difficult (instead of
teaching our kids useful stuff, we're teaching them an archaic
customary measurement system). We have the opportunity to fix this and
give our economy a significant boost in these difficult times as well
as making the future brighter.
I've just voted for this idea and I'd appreciate it if you could too
as I think it's important. The link is:
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_system
The voting process is easy, just:
• follow the link above
• click on the box on the left that has the number of votes in it
• fill in your name and email
• send this email to your friends while you wait for the confirmation
email to come
• click on the confirmation link from change.org
• click on the vote box again
The top 10 ideas will be handed to the Obama Administration on
inauguration day and there will be a national lobbying campaign run by
Change.org and many other leading non-profits to make each idea a
reality.
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Go Metric
http://gometric.us/
