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Any group of backers may bundle their collective contributions to qualify for any reward. For example, if a group’s collective contribution totals $200 the group qualifies for that reward. You may form your own group and make a single contribution or, once we fund, we will help you administer the task. In the second case, be prepared to supply us with a group name (minimum 8 characters including at least one number and one uppercase letter), a roster of contributors, and the point person’s name, phone number, and street address. ULR Bee Houses are hand-made by the ULR staff. Each set (usually 7 units) is cut from a single 5-inch-outside-Ø culm of bamboo. Reed capacity, exclusive of the cocoon sleeve, ranges from 50 up to 70. Cocoon sleeves range from ½” up to ¾” inside Ø and will accommodate 60 < 100 cocoons. Reeds and bamboo are natural products and will vary in diameter and number. Each ULR Bee House comes with either perpendicular mounting hardware or side/top mounting bracket. You will be asked to specify which you prefer. The retail value of the ULR Bee Houses ranges from $50 < $70 exclusive of any donations to research or advocacy groups. Visit http://www.urbanliferaft.com/ for images. Help us identify and select future ULR recipients. We want to place Urban Life Rafts in all the deserving locations we can identify but we need your help. Any individual backer, or bundled group of backers, who contributes $800 to $1,000, or more, earns the right to nominate a group (school, neighborhood association, tenant association, building coop etc.) which the nominator believes would profit by operating a ULR and would promote the cause of urban agriculture. We will assess and otherwise vet the nominees and administer the selection of successive ULR placements. We will employ a “positional scoring method” in which all backers rank nominated projects from “most preferred” to “least preferred.” All vetted and ranked nominees will be eligible for implementation in order of ranking as funding becomes available. Any projects that come to us over the transom will be assessed and ranked in the same fashion. Remember, each and every backer earns the right to participate in the ranking process. Creative Commons license. The Urban Life Raft and related designs are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). 1. It is important that you understand our obligation to maintain the anonymity of children and school staff. We will advise and assist any contributor seeking to record video of operations or events in securing the appropriate permissions and releases within those guidelines. 2. We will launch production with a seed inventory sourced locally from reliable public and private purveyors. That inventory will be habitat specific with an emphasis on native and compatible naturalized species. The seeds we send you will be the products of our efforts. Some packets may contain several varieties which will be targeted, e.g. “butterfly attractors” or “gang of squash.” Although we can’t guarantee that they will sprout and grow in your location, we can assure you that they will be viable and organically produced. Each contributor will receive a variety of edible and ornamental species subject to the limits of our inventory. The number of seeds per packet is yet to be determined but will compare favorably with that prevailing among commercial purveyors of organic products. 3. We will produce official ULR T-shirts featuring our favorite vegetables, flowers, bees, bats, and anything else that strikes us as hip, cool, or otherwise must-have. These designs will be derived from our very own produce and resident creatures. We will publish the selection on our website and take orders for size and image in the Fall and Winter of 2012. Trust us. These designs will be the envy of all your Urban-Dirt pals.

PLEDGE $1 OR MORE All backers will be recognized by name (unless you request anonymity) on the Urban Life Raft website (urbanliferaft.com). A permanent plaque directing visitors to that listing will be placed on this, and succeeding, Life Rafts. Any backer(s) wishing to visit the Life Raft for an on-site tour and update may schedule that visit through our website. We will publish on-site tour frequency and capacity as we approach start-up. Special consideration will be extended to out-of-town backers. We will broadcast on our website real-time video during construction and operation. We have other time-lapse videos in development and will post them as they are completed.

Each and every backer will participate in ranking future project placements (Voting Rights).

2 packets of seeds from our production (see Head Note 2); Voting Rights

4 packets of seeds from our production (see Head Note 2); Voting Rights

4 packets of seeds; Voting Rights; 1 ULR official T-shirt (see Head Note 3)

4 packets of seeds; Voting Rights; 2 ULR T-shirts; 1 ±50-reed ULR Bee House

4 packets of seeds; Voting Rights; 2 ULR T-shirts; 1 ±55-reed ULR Bee House

4 packets of seeds; Voting Rights; 3 ULR T-shirts; 1 ±60-reed ULR Bee House; right to nominate future projects

4 packets of seeds; Voting Rights; 4 ULR T-shirts; 2 ±70-reed ULR Bee Houses; right to nominate future projects; our undying gratitude