Over the last week, we’ve been fervently promoting a Birthright Earth grant proposal in a voting competition called ‘Project Fund’ sponsored by the organization Brighter Planet. If that’s too many prepositional phrases for you, here’s a little more explanation.

Brighter Planet is a website and online environmental network. The org’s main purpose centers on the individual Carbon Footprint. Once you are registered and become a member of the site, you can calculate your carbon footprint, learn about different ways to reduce it, track your progress in reducing, and share your reducing experiences with others in the network (thank you Brighter Planet homepage).

An additional effort by the organization is ‘Project Fund’ which is a grant-giving branch of the site that decides where to give funds based upon their members’ votes over a two week voting period. Brighter Planet does this every month and this particular month, Birthright Earth has submitted a project in league with a production team from the nonprofit organization SeeChange headed up by Mike Trainer and Adam Barton. The project is titled ‘Climate Change: A Personal Journey of Understanding and Action’ and is linked here.

Although the title doesn’t include the name Birthright Earth, our organization will feature heavily in this wonderful proposal that approaches the ‘beyond any of us’ issue of global climate change from an individual perspective. The first half of the proposed documentary will center around the ’50 people, 1 question’ model and consist of street interviews in Brooklyn, NY about climate change. The second half of the documentary will focus on Birthright Earth and our growth from a simple idea to an environmental movement.

To win this competition and be able to produce this documentary would be a progressive achievement for Birthright Earth – our message would reach far and beyond where it has to this point and we would move much closer to attaining our organizational goals.

Voting runs through noon on October 15th – so PLEASE, PLEASE take a moment to vote. Once you register with Brighter Planet by leaving your email address and creating a username (don’t worry Brighter Planet does NOT blast emails and newsletters!), you are given 3 total votes for Project Fund and you can use ALL 3 on our project!

Take a moment, register and vote for Birthright Earth and encourage your friends and family to as well!

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- tim

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