About this project
Send a message to Copenhagen demanding action on climate change!
This summer British ocean rower Roz Savage rowed solo 2,600 miles across the Pacific from Hawaii to Kiribati, where she saw the human face of climate change. Kiribati, a scattering of small coral atolls, will be uninhabitable within the next 50 years as climate change causes rises in sea level and increasingly frequent major weather events. See http://www.youtube.com/watch... for a video about Kiribati.
She is now taking her message to the climate change conference in Copenhagen, in her role as United Nations "Climate Hero". With a small group of friends (including a documentary filmmaker) she will set out on Nov 20 to walk 200 miles from Big Ben to Brussels, where she will join the United Nations Climate Express train for the remainder of the journey to Copenhagen.
En route they will gather signatures on inflatable "Earth" balls, to be delivered to the conference as a petition calling on the delegates to take action on climate change.
The global online community will also be encouraged to show solidarity with the cause by joining Roz's environmental mission, called Pull Together: http://pulltogether09.org. This initiative aims to inspire people to take action on CO2 levels by walking more and driving less. Calling upon her supporters around the world to Pull Together, Roz will challenge them to match the 10,000 oar strokes she does each day on the ocean by walking 10,000 steps a day.
Using photos, videos, blogs and several social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, her mission is to connect and engage people of all ages around the world, and demonstrate that every action, no matter how small it may seem, does indeed matter. http://www.rozsavage.com.
The $5,000 budget is to cover:
- cost of flights for filmmaker arriving from USA
- filmmaker's time
- purchase of carbon offsets to cover any unavoidable CO2 emissions (e.g. ferry)
- ferry fares
- hostel accommodation en route
- roaming charges for mobile phone which will be used to post daily updates online
Thank you for checking out my project. I hope you'll feel inspired to help. Every contribution counts!
If we all pull together, we CAN save the world.
Update Nov 11, 2009: What a fantastic result. We now have the $5,000 we needed for our BB2B walk. If we are lucky enough to get any more pledges coming in (and some Kickstarter projects seem to go to 200% or even 300% of their initial targets) then we have plenty of other exciting features we could add to the project - all the way to Copenhagen.
The documentary film has a budget of $75,000 - it would be great if we can help out BB2B team member Nora McDevitt with her fundraising goal.
And we are planning to have an "Eco Adventurers Reception" in Copenhagen, to spread some inspiration through the conference. We now have a partial sponsor for that - thanks to Green People, makers of fantastic organic skincare products - and a potential venue. But we still need some more funding.
So keep the pledges coming in - it will ALL be used for the stated purposes - in keeping with our "wipe out waste" ethos, not a penny will go to waste!
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your name on one of our Planet Earth beach balls, plus e-book of “Blogs From The Blue” - the blogs, photos and race press releases from Roz Savage’s Atlantic row, including never-seen-before notes from Roz’s mother
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the above + signed commemorative card mailed to you from the Copenhagen climate change conference (limit of 100)
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all the above + Savage branded pedometer so you can take part in the Pull Together 10,000 steps challenge
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all the above + Savage branded eco-friendly reusable grocery bag so you need never use a plastic bag again
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all the above + signed DVD of Roz’s Atlantic videos (limit of 50)
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all the above + signed copy of “Rowing The Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean”, by Roz Savage
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all the above + exclusive sneak previews of video footage shot during the journey to Copenhagen
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all the above + link to YouTube video of Team Savage on the road, saying thank you to you personally - and to any friends who you nominate to share your acknowledgement (limit of 10)
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Roz Savage is a British ocean rower and environmental campaigner. After 11 years working as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life direction - in a rowboat. In 2005 she rowed solo across the Atlantic, and is now attempting to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific. She has completed Stage 1 (California to Hawaii) and Stage 2 (Hawaii to Kiribati). The final stage of her voyage to Australia takes place in 2010.
Roz Savage is a UN Climate Hero, a presenter for the Climate Project, and an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org. She has been listed amongst the Top 20 Great British Adventurers by the Daily Telegraph, and the Top 10 Adventure Twitters by Outside Magazine. Her book, Rowing The Atlantic, is published in the US by Simon & Schuster.
