HOMESTEAD: Re: OWNERSHIP: 10,000 Binarians

[Richard Stutsman <rstutsman@worldworks.org>]

Actually, the message Dan Bell posted to COGALL about the "proposed blackout" 
was a good example of the chain e-mail of which I spoke in my previous post. Do 
you see how that might work? I wish I had thought to mention it in context!

<<Richard>>


At 2:01 AM -0400 5/19/01, Dan Bell wrote:
>X-Authentication-Warning: cog.kent.edu: majordomo set sender to 
>owner-cogall@cog.kent.edu using -f
>X-Sender: dbell@pop.kent.edu
>Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:01:04 -0400
>To: cogall@cog.kent.edu
>From: Dan Bell <dbell@kent.edu>
>Subject: COGALL: Re: proposed blackout
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Sender: owner-cogall@cog.kent.edu
>
>Dear Capital Ownership Group participants:
>
>I thought you might appreciate this global response
>to a global issue.
>
>Dan
>
>************************************
>ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT
>THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
>JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE,
>
>7-10pm worldwide, all time zones
>
>As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy
>policies and lack of emphasis on efficiency,
>conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a
>voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of summer,
>June 21 at  7pm - 10pm in any time zone (this will
>roll it across the planet).
>
>Its a simple protest and a symbolic act. Turn out your
>lights from 7pm-10pm on June 21. Unplug whatever you
>can unplug in your house. Light a candle to
>the Sungoddess, kiss and tell or not, take a
>stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything
>that's not electronic - have fun in the dark.
>
>Read the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by Hawken and
>Lovins to learn that conservation/high efficiency
>technologies already ARE on-the-shelf.
>If implemented these revolutionary ideas would pay
>themselves off within five years, after which we'd be
>pumping far less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere
>and saving bucks to boot.
>
>Forward this email as widely as possible, to your
>government representatives and environmental contacts.
>
>Let them know we want global education, participation
>and funding in conservation, efficiency and
>alternative fuel efforts -- and an end to
>over-exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources.
>
>Anyone knows that the Administration is blowing
>smoke when they tell us that "... conservation can't
>help, it'll just be too expensive to implement
>those technologies..."
-- 
Richard A. Stutsman, Director
WorldWorks Symposium: An inquiry into how the world works
URL <http://www.worldworks.org>