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Text TREE to 85944 for Earth Day and ReGreen the World
Happy Earth Day, Friends of the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm!
I want to thank everyone who came out to our last workday out at the Citizen’s Co-op Porters area community gardens! It is looking (and tasting) GREAT out there!
Please read below about how you can take this spirit and energy international to spread the green world wide, literally! My Dear friend Leah’s Dad started it all and it sounds like a fantastic idea and opportunity! If you feel like giving back to the ‘Friends’ and doing so with the push of a few buttons, send that juice to the ’ReGreen the World’ campaign by following the simple directions below. I know many of you were looking forward to working for the berries you picked last year-well here is an opportunity to give back and pay it forward, since we are no longer able to do work trade at the farm. And please let me know you did so if you have the time!
Have a Fabulous Earth Day!
maureen
www.GvilleBlueberryFarmFriends.org
Please read on and spread the word (please forward)=>
Check out the Green World Campaign my dad has been working on . . . today is the day to text tree! Leah
On Friday, April 22, from the heart of Times Square, the Green World Campaignwill launch a year-long initiative to “ReGreen the World.†Supported by Earth Day New York, the GWC’s dazzling animated graphics will swirl across jumbo screens day and night, inviting spectators—and people across the country– to Text TREE to 85944 and ReGreen the World. It will be spectacular, with more than 10 jumbo screens involved—including the building-sized NASDAQ and American Eagle—turning Times Square into a virtual forest at regular intervals.Go to
vimeo.com/greenworld/texttreeto see the video.We’ll be using the same technology—text2give–deployed by the Red Cross for disaster relief. Here’s the basic way it works: When the word “tree†is texted to the number 85944 by anyone from anywhere in the U.S., a $5 donation will automatically be charged to their cellphone bill. The Green World Campaign will use this to plant 5 trees on degraded land from Kenya to Mexico, from India to the Philippines. Trees help restore biodiversity, reduce atmospheric CO2, revitalize soil and support economic self-sufficiency in struggling indigenous communities.
A $5 donation can be made right now–and repeated up to 5 times.
And here’s a cool feature: Contributions texted on Earth Day, April 22, between the hours 10 a.m and 1 p.m. EDT, will show up in real-time on a giant Toshiba display in Times Square.
So, we’re asking people to donate starting now, but especially to donate on the 22nd to visibly demonstrate how global citizens can work together to really “move the needle” for people and the planet. Anyone, anywhere in the U.S., at any time, can Text TREE to 85944 and $5 will go on the cell phone bill to plant trees to restore the ecology and economy of the world’s poorest places. And they
will be able to go to the GWC website to check our collective progress.
It will be like a national positive feedback loop of what we’re achieving together, what global citizens can do to tangibly change the world now and for generations to come (with a technology that has mostly been used until now for temporary relief efforts). This is going to roll out in many other forms after Earth Day in the public domain.Please invite your social networks via email,
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Vimeo, etc, to this unprecedented collaboration for the health of our environment and the harmony of our global village.
CSM is an official partner of Green World Campaign and Earth Day New York.
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