Support Ecological Internet’s Highly Successful Biocentric Campaigns, Knowledge Tools and Commentary
Funding Appeal #1 – What EI and You Have Done Recently
http://www.climateark.org/donate/
By Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet
It is the time of year (every mid-May and November) when we ask network participants to “Gift the Earth” by supporting Ecological Internet’s (EI) efforts to pursue and achieve global ecological sustainability, one successful campaign at a time. EI’s efforts are largely funded by small individual donations, which as a 501c3 non-profit, are tax-deductible. EI simply must raise $60,000 over the next month and a half to remain operational and cover core computer, network bandwidth and staff costs. Could you please help EI continue its unique brand of grassroots global ecological activism by donating now what you can afford at http://www.climateark.org/donate/ ?
The good news is one donor has already given $10,000 to “prime the pump” — so we are already 17% to the goal — and another individual donor has given $25,000 to serve as a matching grant — doubling all donations of any size up to $25K. You give $100, EI gets $200! So it is up to YOU and the 25,000 other people in our email network, and the over one million people that use our web sites a month, to help EI raise the last $25K as small donations. Are you up to the task? Will EI survive? Can we get this done swiftly and then get back to saving the Earth? All sizes of donations — from $35 to $10,000, or what you can afford — are needed and appreciated.
What a year it has been thus far. As you know, EI is not interested in mamby-pamby feel good do nothing conservation — we are the only internationally active group in the world espousing necessary but difficult policies based upon ecological science that are sufficient to sustain the Earth; such as ending ancient forest logging, closing coal power plants, and dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions (more on campaign goals at http://www.climateark.org/campaigns/). Nonetheless, together EI and you have been the main player galvanizing major conservation victories in Brazil and Ecuador’s rainforests, and we have participated in much needed positive climate policy here in the US (see http://www.ecoearth.info/kudos/).