Sponsors
| Over to the right you'll see a list of our sponsors, and you can read all about them below... Care2 has teamed up with YERT to get the green message to more folks faster! We're delighted to work with them. Check out YERT's group on Care2 here. YERT and ChicoBag have come together to raise awareness about the Bag Monster and his worst enemy: the reuseable, stuffable, colorful ChicoBag. You can buy special YERT ChicoBags in our store! EcoBrain is helping YERT with the research side of sustainability. They have a variety of green-themed electronic books (eBooks) for sale at their website, and EcoBrain gives a healthy portion of your purchase back to YERT if you click through from a link on our site and buy something within 15 days. Not sure what to buy? We'll be recommending a few eBooks in our store soon... Theo Chocolate shipped an extraordinarily loving amount of their uniquely seductive fair-trade organic chocolate to us for the YERT Homecoming event in Pittsburgh. We had more chocolate than we could give away to our happy guests, and we're eternally grateful. Mark's favorite is the dark chocolate with nibs. Don't stand in his way... PennFuture is an environmental advocacy non-profit in Pennsylvania that notified thousands of local, environmentally minded Pennsylvanians about the YERT launch and homecoming events in Pittsburgh-- thanks to some well-timed e-mail blasts. We can't thank them enough for their support! The Rachel Carson Homestead sits just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, and has served as an anchor for YERT. We began and ended our road trip at the home of Rachel Carson, and have been embraced by the staff that maintains her legacy! Please Donate (get your name in the credits of our film!)We've put over $160,000 of our own money towards the YERT project and creation of the YERT feature film. Now we're asking you, our favorite planetary supporters, to put your money where your angst is and pitch in $20, $50, $100, $1000, or more to help us finish this film while the planet still stands a chance. We think we'll need about $60,000 to finish as quickly and professionally as possible. You can make a donation online or via check by reading the instructions on our Donate page. All donors who request it will get their names added to the credits of our feature film. For donations of $100 or more we'll send you a free, autographed copy of David Korten's new book: Agenda for a New Economy, or you can choose an autographed copy of his YERT-inspiring book The Great Turning. Many thanks to David Korten for donating the initial batch of autographed books to make this offer possible! |
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YERT Friends
We wouldn't be half the road trip we turned out to be without YERT Friends. Our first official YERT Friend is ZapRoot.com, which brings green news videos to you in a quick, fun, tasty style-- and you can watch each episode faster than it takes to drink your morning orange juice. Watch for more friends coming soon...
A YERTy approach to regional greenification, GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) is working to "take the 'rust' out of the 'rust belt.'" They've certainly helped pave the way for YERT to re-enter the world after a year on the road. We love 'em!
We stumbled upon 350.org through our happy exchanges with StepItUp2007 and 1Sky. 350.org is busy getting the word out about the most important number in the world: 353. Just kidding. Scientists believe we need to get our carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere down to 350 parts per million. Right now we're at 387 ppm. Any questions? Watch the YouTube video.
Early on in the YERT project, we met Ryan and Mandy from WithinReach, who are biking all around the USA to document how sustainable communities function. And, like YERT, they're working on a feature film about the project. They've been extremely helpful and supportive of YERT since the very beginning... Please show them your support, too!
YERT has known David Kroodsma (RideForClimate.com) for several years, and through that time we have known him to be a thoughtful, capable, and dedicated advocate for strong action on climate change. Indeed, he has put is body on the line to prove it, cycling all over the country and the world to bring his message to ever-increasing audiences. He is also an excellent writer, with a book in the works. As fellow national road-trippers, friends, and ambassadors for a stable climate, we believe that David would make the best citizen journalist in Copenhagen during the climate talks, and plan to do all that we can to help him get there. Please take a moment to show your support by voting for him on The Huffington Post's "Hopenhagen" contest, here.
YERT is Sponsoring...
We don't sponsor nouns (people, places, or things) too often, but when we heard about the EcoDaredevil award, we had to throw our name behind it. Anything environmental involving Evel Knievel is simply too good to pass up. Read all about it here.
