At 2009-01-03T21:20-0600, Paul Trusten wrote: > A statement about metrication has made it into the second round of > voting at Change.org (see > [1]http://www.change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_s > ystem) . It made third place in the Technology Policy category. > Please consider registering at this Web site and casting your vote in > the final voting period of 5 to 15 January 2009. Really, we need more than that. This is a wonderful opportunity (all the change sites are) and we need now, more than ever, to do what we can to bring this issue to the attention of the press and the incoming administration.
As I posted on the Go Metric site (http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/view/Change/Change_ORG): We need all the help we can get to make this happen. You can help in the following ways: * Set your IM status to "Vote for http://change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_system and then set your status to this" * Do the same for your Facebook/MySpace/etc status * Write a blog/LJ/etc post about voting * Share the page via StumbledUpon/MySpace/Facebook/your blog etc via the share links on the right hand side of the idea page * Email your friends and family, there's a sample form letter below for those who'd prefer Form Letter 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. -- End dual-measurement, let's finish going metric! http://gometric.us/ http://www.metric.org/
