Comments on: Rory Fights to Save the Streams http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/ What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Wendy Ramsay http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3586 Wendy Ramsay Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:35:33 +0000 http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3586 Hi, To accomplish clean-up, ask to be on the agenda of your city council or the board of supervisors. Tell them about the polluted condition of your stream etc and ask for city/county help. In Napa, California, the city loaned us dumpsters which we filled with stram-side debris and which were picked up and recycled by the city workers....donated time. We put a notice in the local paper...free..under events...give day/date/time and location for people to meet and ask for volunteers to come and help for a few hours. We also got donations of water and pop to cheer the workers on. Call/email the Sierra Club and any other like-minded groups, who will put your ad on their website. There ARE willing people out there to help do this, monthly or however frequently. Don't worry about a title to your project, as you do it, one will emerge. Bravo! It's young guyus like you who encourage us all and make a BIG difference. Hugs, Wendy Hi,
To accomplish clean-up, ask to be on the agenda of your city council or the board of supervisors.
Tell them about the polluted condition of your stream etc and ask for city/county help.
In Napa, California, the city loaned us dumpsters which we filled with stram-side debris and which were picked up and recycled by the city workers….donated time.

We put a notice in the local paper…free..under events…give day/date/time and location for people to meet and ask for volunteers to come and help for a few hours.

We also got donations of water and pop to cheer the workers on.

Call/email the Sierra Club and any other like-minded groups, who will put your ad on their website.

There ARE willing people out there to help do this, monthly or however frequently.

Don’t worry about a title to your project, as you do it, one will emerge.

Bravo! It’s young guyus like you who encourage us all and make a BIG difference.

Hugs, Wendy

]]> By: Co9Mom http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3529 Co9Mom Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:42:30 +0000 http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3529 Ok, here's number 9. Start small, your own creek. When you get it successfully "cleaned-up" then you will have a "resume" of your accomplishments and you can start expanding to get that large organization together. 10. Do your homework! Learn all you can about cleaning up water, what is being done around the world, what is not and should be, etc. Become an expert! Nobody ever said an expert has to be 100 years old . . .you can become one at 16! GOOD LUCK RORY! It is a noble goal! Ok, here’s number 9. Start small, your own creek. When you get it successfully “cleaned-up” then you will have a “resume” of your accomplishments and you can start expanding to get that large organization together.

10. Do your homework! Learn all you can about cleaning up water, what is being done around the world, what is not and should be, etc. Become an expert! Nobody ever said an expert has to be 100 years old . . .you can become one at 16!

GOOD LUCK RORY! It is a noble goal!

]]> By: Co9Mom http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3523 Co9Mom Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:26:11 +0000 http://www.theburiedlife.com/2008/03/31/ask-and-you-shall-recieve/#comment-3523 Wow! Anything I can do from the other side of the country, just let me know. My suggestions to start: 1. Get a good simple name - perhaps the name of the stream, creek, area, etc. with a twist. Can't think of anything? Talk to your friends. Kids are creative. Offer a free pizza coupon to the best idea. You'll get lots! 2. Start an online blog about your project. Add pictures. Do you have any from 12 years ago when it was "clean" and pristine? Update it regularly so folks automatically go there to see the latest that is happening in their neighborhood. 3. Send info on your blog to everyone who might have the slightest interest (friends, family, neighbors, school newspaper, local newspaper, chamber of commerce, local businesses nearby, etc.) Ask for input. I bet you someone out there has some great photos from when it was "clean." 4. Create your own marketing - for example, go to a local craft store and make a few t-shirts with the "project" name & a picture on it - sell them to raise money for your clean-up project. 5. Open a bank savings account for your clean-up project. 6. Make a flyer on your project at your local copy center. Get local businesses to put them in the window or on their bulletin boards. 7. Invite a middle school science class / teacher to do a project on the changes in the creek - maybe have a "clean-up Saturday." Kids, parents, teachers. 8. Need more ideas? Reach me through the BL guys . . . Wow! Anything I can do from the other side of the country, just let me know.

My suggestions to start:

1. Get a good simple name - perhaps the name of the stream, creek, area, etc. with a twist. Can’t think of anything? Talk to your friends. Kids are creative. Offer a free pizza coupon to the best idea. You’ll get lots!

2. Start an online blog about your project. Add pictures. Do you have any from 12 years ago when it was “clean” and pristine? Update it regularly so folks automatically go there to see the latest that is happening in their neighborhood.

3. Send info on your blog to everyone who might have the slightest interest (friends, family, neighbors, school newspaper, local newspaper, chamber of commerce, local businesses nearby, etc.) Ask for input. I bet you someone out there has some great photos from when it was “clean.”

4. Create your own marketing - for example, go to a local craft store and make a few t-shirts with the “project” name & a picture on it - sell them to raise money for your clean-up project.

5. Open a bank savings account for your clean-up project.

6. Make a flyer on your project at your local copy center. Get local businesses to put them in the window or on their bulletin boards.

7. Invite a middle school science class / teacher to do a project on the changes in the creek - maybe have a “clean-up Saturday.” Kids, parents, teachers.

8. Need more ideas? Reach me through the BL guys . . .

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