October 24, 2010
Dear friends,
People are saying good things about Ecological Internet. A recent Mongbay article [1] featured noted tropical biologist Bill Laurance lauding EI’s campaign efforts in Madagasacar. Recall EI has successfully campaigned to get French shipping company Delmas to stop carrying illegally logged Madagascar rainforest timbers. “It's really impressive that environmental activists have influenced a major corporation such as Delmas,” said Dr. William Laurance, a researcher at James Cook University in Australia… “Many corporations are learning that it's bad business to engage in environmentally poor practices. Kudos to Delmas for changing their tack, and to Glen Barry and his colleagues for focusing attention on this critical issue.”
Many rainforest experts see Ecological Internet’s campaign to end primary forest logging as being ecologically crucial, and you should too! The time has come to end primary forest logging and other industrial forest development, and to protect and restore old forests, as keystone responses to climate, biodiversity and ecosystems. EI has noted ecologists on our scientific advisory board [2], and access to the most recent ecological science. And of course EI is run by yours truly – Dr. Glen Barry – who has graduate degrees in Land Resources, as well as Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development.
EI is serious organization as are our efforts to define and implement requirements for global ecological sustainability in order to avert global ecosystem collapse. Together we are engaged in a valiant fight between good and evil to use ecology to slay the ecosystem eating growth machine. Your tax-deductible donation is now being matched 100%. If you can, we would greatly appreciate a $100 donation or what you can afford at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ .
It is very important for EI’s future that giving pick up – particularly raising a few thousand more this month – if EI is going to be alright, and be able to continue in any form at all. There were urgent expenditures this year on Papua New Guinea, software and social network development that had to be made, and with our mid-year fund-raiser falling slightly short, we saw this end-of-year cash flow problem coming. I guess you could say that we literally bet the farm – our seven acre office, childhood home and organic permaculture demonstration project - that we could raise EI’s operating expenses from our annual crowd funding appeal (as these public broadcasting type appeals have now come to be called).
For more than a decade EI’s funding appeals have been successful, and have provided financial liberty and allowed EI to be independent in thought and action of the growth machine and tainted authority. EI is able to educate and take action on issues ranging from old forest logging, to geoengineering, to population control; in which few others engage deeply, defining and pursuing ecologically sufficient policies. But not all of this may happen any longer if we can’t pay the mortgage this month and raise funding goal of $75,000 from now through the first six months of 2011.
Our various networks and means of conveying biocentric ecological thought are growing exponentially – 500 new email list recipients and facebook members each a month. Seven huge victories this year. New and unprecedented networking of biocentric thought on social networks. Let’s make it clear, Ecological Internet is not giving up, and I am not quitting. Not after the past year of unprecedented success we have had together. But because funds are so tight – and if giving doesn’t pick up for this, EI’s 11th year-end fund-raiser – we may have no choice as we go bankrupt! Sadly I am serious. If more progress is not made immediately, EI may be history. Not trying to be melodramatic, it just is. Please continue to make biocentric free thinking possible by making a donation with a credit card, check, facebook or wire transfer at: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ . The Earth and you will be glad you did!
For Earth,
Dr. Glen Barry
President, Ecological Internet
[1] Corporations, conservation, and the green movement: Mongabay http://j.mp/aW6xDi
In June of this year Mongbay ran this interview with Dr. Glen Barry
A total ban on primary forest logging needed to save the world, an interview with activist Glen Barry
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0602-hance_barry.html
[2] http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/staff/
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