Hello friends on this exciting week!
Carrick and I were honored to speak before the Board of Selectmen in our town of Sutton, Massachusetts last night, where we were publicly recognized for our upcoming cross-country eco-video project We are also grateful for our introduction to the Board by House Representative Jennifer Callahan. Carrick and I spoke about our upcoming journey and showed our most recent video, "Wind Over Worcester". It was wonderful to receive such great support from our town!
All this snow has caused us to have to cancel several of our recently scheduled presentations, which is frustrating! We only have several months left before we begin our cross-country journey, and we're trying to give as many presentations as we can. I'm thinking of California a lot lately!
We are excited to announce a new sponsor and supporter of our cross-country video project: VegDining.com. VegDining is a great website that lists vegan, vegetarian, and veg-friendly restaurants across the U.S., and it will be invaluable to us as we cross the U.S. visiting cities and towns, looking for healthy places to eat along the way. Many of the restaurants listed on VegDining.com have signed on to offer discounts to VegDining members - the restaurants we've looked up offered 10% off to VegDining members - that will help save us a bundle on our journey. Our friends at VegDining have generously offered, that for the next 100 people who donate $50.00 to our cross-country eco-video project, they will receive a FREE membership to VegDining.com. Check out their website and see what healthy restaurants are near you, and keep it in mind for when you're traveling! You can make a donation to support our cross-country eco-video project at our website, www.OurRenewableNation.org, or you can send us a check in the snail mail; just send me an email at OurRenewableNation@gmail.com and I'll send you our address.
Be well,
Colin
www.OurRenewableNation.org
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Friday, November 21, 2008
Contacts!
This has been a week of good news and good networking!
I got a preview of our updated web design and it's great - such an improvement! It's a great design which makes all the important content easy to get to. I'll be making the big announcement when that goes online soon.
I met this week with Rep. Jennifer Callahan, representative to the Massachusetts State House for our town, Sutton. Rep. Callahan has been a strong supporter of the recent environmental legislation at the State House, including the Green Communities Act and the Global Warming Solutions Act. She's offered to help us network with schools and we talked about visiting the State House on Earth Day before we begin our cross-country journey. Carrick and I were also invited to give a presentation about our video project to the Sutton Board of Selectmen on January 20 at 7:00pm. It's great to have the support of our local government and their enthusiasm for our project.
I attended the Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN) annual conference at MIT on Sunday which affirmed for me the need to draw from many different groups for support of renewable energy and sustainability. As an environmentalist, I think we focus too narrowly on a single motivator like climate change and I think it's important to remember that issue is only one reason of many why people "come to the table" to work for a sustainable future. We won't succeed by trying to convince everyone about climate change - we don't have time and the work is too important. Van Jones of Green for All is a strong advocate of that broad-based appeal. Carrick and I are finding support from people of many different viewpoints - if we can do it then surely it can work on a much larger scale.
Be well,
Colin McCullough
www.OurRenewableNation.org
I got a preview of our updated web design and it's great - such an improvement! It's a great design which makes all the important content easy to get to. I'll be making the big announcement when that goes online soon.
I met this week with Rep. Jennifer Callahan, representative to the Massachusetts State House for our town, Sutton. Rep. Callahan has been a strong supporter of the recent environmental legislation at the State House, including the Green Communities Act and the Global Warming Solutions Act. She's offered to help us network with schools and we talked about visiting the State House on Earth Day before we begin our cross-country journey. Carrick and I were also invited to give a presentation about our video project to the Sutton Board of Selectmen on January 20 at 7:00pm. It's great to have the support of our local government and their enthusiasm for our project.
I attended the Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN) annual conference at MIT on Sunday which affirmed for me the need to draw from many different groups for support of renewable energy and sustainability. As an environmentalist, I think we focus too narrowly on a single motivator like climate change and I think it's important to remember that issue is only one reason of many why people "come to the table" to work for a sustainable future. We won't succeed by trying to convince everyone about climate change - we don't have time and the work is too important. Van Jones of Green for All is a strong advocate of that broad-based appeal. Carrick and I are finding support from people of many different viewpoints - if we can do it then surely it can work on a much larger scale.
Be well,
Colin McCullough
www.OurRenewableNation.org
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