Helping Old Forests Stabilize Climate 2009 Ecological Internet $75,000 Year-End Fund-Raiser
Please support EI's proven Internet-based global advocacy to achieve ecological science-based ecosystem protection and restoration - http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ November 18, 2009 Dear Earth colleagues, I have just come from the rainforest, and things are not looking good. Old forests continue to needlessly fall, even as abrupt runaway climate change appears imminent. Today Ecological Internet launches our biannual fund-raiser to support our ten year old unique brand of Internet mediated global ecological advocacy to address the twin crises of forest degradation and climate change. Simply no one protects old forests to stabilize climate like Ecological Internet. Besides our long-running eco-portals with search engine, action alerts and blog; we are currently residing in Papua New Guinea, bringing our work straight to the rainforests, and working with local peoples and groups. Please, for this work to continue, we need your help with a tax-deductible donation now at: http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ . And it will be doubled with a matching grant! Old forest protection and restoration is needed more than ever if Earth's climate, biodiversity, ecosystems and biosphere are to be sustained. Widespread first time logging of primary forests is still falsely marketed as "sustainable forest management". Ecological Internet (EI) is a global driving force behind efforts to end logging and other industrial destruction of primary and old growth forests, and to allow secondary forests to age to once again achieve old-growth status. Ecological Internet (EI) needs your help raising the $USD 75,000 required to continue our unique and pioneering Internet-based eco-advocacy efforts on behalf of the biosphere and humanity's well-being. With nearly 60,000 people on our global email list, a few million site users a month, and from past fund-drives; we think this is a realistic goal. Nearly all our funding comes from network participants as twice a year we carry out a "Public Broadcasting" voluntary style appeal to raise funds for staff, computer equipment and bandwidth. This has been a year of shared accomplishment. Together you and others in EI's network single-handedly stopped new oil palm by the Malaysian government in the heart of the Amazon, and helped defeat oil palm in the Ivory Coast. We courageously challenged big NGOs to stop supporting "sustainable forest management" of primary forests. And together we brought the issue of REDD carbon payments to pay for logging and plantations in old forests to the public's and leaders' attention. Because of your and others' generosity, for over 15 years we have together pioneered the use of the Internet to pursue biocentric ecological activism. And we intend to continue doing so using our massive and growing Facebook and Twitter networks. Donations are not required to participate in our network, or to use our one of a kind web resource, yet they are deeply appreciated. Please help keep the dream of global ecological sustainability alive by donating now at: http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ . For Earth, Dr. Glen Barry --- 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]
