DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR A GRASS ROOTS PROJECT THAT COULD CREATE CHANGE?
Currently The Great Gathering is being worked on by a small team of dedicated individuals. The team is focused on creating a space where people from around the world can join together to create change.
The process of building the foundation for The Great Gathering has been slow but we are making great progress in the last two months.
The articles of incorporation have been completed and the legal notice has been put into the Arizona Newspaper. This is all leading towards creating a Not for Profit foundation.
We have a board of five for the 501c3 nonprofit that are from all over the United States and Canada. We hope to bring on an advisory board in the future from around the world as we move forward.
Our website has been a huge undertaking to build a unique website from code has been our greatest undertaking. We have chosen to take the time to build this site with a focus on you the participant and the admins on the back end of the website.
Far too often we go to visit websites that have massive amounts of information but there is no way to search for what you are most interested in. It becomes a tangle of articles, links and information that becomes lost in the process of sharing. Our goal has been to focus on how to exchange information from around the world in a way that will allow the user to quickly, easily and effectively find exactly what they are interested in. We will attempt to organize the site in a way that we hope will prove to be easier for the user to find what they are most interested in quickly.
The goal is to create a space where people can come to learn and share information, meet others who are interested in the same areas they are and then begin projects that will move out into the world.
As each day passes now we are becoming more excited about the launch of the website which will be the first step to The Great Gathering. As each layer is completed we will build the next solid foundation upon which all people can participate. Below we are asking you to bring your ideas to The Great Gathering as we work together to unite the world and begin the process of change.
Note that if your idea is chosen you will be contacted. Please do not resubmit an idea once sent it. Ensure that you have included as much detail in your project idea as possible and contact information where you can be reached.
Thank you for your patience and for your participation in The Great Gathering of Humanity.
The Great Gathering Board.
DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR A GRASS ROOTS PROJECT THAT COULD CREATE CHANGE?
The Great Gathering is now accepting suggestions for humanitarian and environmental projects!
Have you ever had a great concept for a project that could help solve a problem or foster change on a local, state, national, or even international level? Did you abandon it because you didn’t have the contacts, knowledge, or resources to get it done?
This is your chance!
As a non-profit organization, The Great Gathering will help fund a number of grassroots projects aimed at creating sustainable and self-reproducing change.
How?
By making creative use of the Pay-it-Forward concept! A project may start very small, but as a condition of funding, the benefactors must agree to keep the momentum of change going by sharing their knowledge and assisting others to recreate the project elsewhere.
We’re very excited about this aspect of The Great Gathering, and want to hear YOUR ideas! A “project” could be anything from an educational one-time gathering, to setting up a facility for teaching essential life- or work skills, to building homes for the impoverished. Please send your suggestions to projectideas@thegreatgathering.org
Beach cleanups
I have become very aware of the ongoing danger that is being caused by plastic pollution of the environment and the oceans in particular where it is killing millions of turtles, whales, sea birds and other animals every year and is increasingly entering the food chain which goes right on up to us because people eat fish and sea food.
Plastic cannot biodegrade but only breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. There are 46,000 pieces of plastic in each square mile of ocean and plastic particles outnumber plankton by 6 to 1 in some places. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas and growing daily and is composed mostly of floating plastic. There are five of these vast oceanic gyres that are made up of accumulated plastic.
Most sea birds have plastic in them now and 19 of 21 already endangered albatross species are threatened with extinction because the adults feed plastic to their chicks that then die because their stomachs become full of the toxic trash and have no room for real food, which the oceans are becoming depleted of anyway. Turtles swallow plastic mistaking it for jellyfish and a turtle was found dead in Hawaii with over 1,000 bits of plastic in its stomach and intestines. Sea gulls have been filmed swallowing entire plastic bags and are sure to die. The birds and animals cannot digest plastic or pass it through them and it clogs their stomachs and intestines. Plastic particles absorb other toxins that accumulate and are eaten by plankton feeders that are eaten by bigger fish and sea animals.
Beaches in many parts are becoming increasingly full of plastic that washes up so much so that the sand is becoming a mix of plastic particles and real sand. Plastic pollution is now a worldwide problem in all oceans.
With all of this ongoing nightmare in mind I propose that a worldwide action should be taken – Beach Cleanup Day. This would mean people banding together as volunteers at as many beaches as possible and gathering up the plastic they find on them and this plastic would then be taken to recycling centres.
It is impossible to get the plastic out of the oceans but the more of us that take action on this matter the more the call goes out for people to refuse single use plastic (by using cloth shopping bags and not buying bottled water for example), by re-using as much as possible the plastic they have, by reducing the amount of plastic they buy and by recycling the items they have when they have been finished with.
Beach cleanups can be done under the banner of a World Beach Cleanup Day or as local efforts.
A great number of people are simply ignorant about what happens to thrown away plastic and do not realise it is killing so many animals. The resulting news generated by beaches being cleaned up would make a lot more people aware of the problem. Most of the plastic getting in the sea is coming from the land to begin with. It washes down rivers and drains. The people of the world need to be made aware of the problem and as many people as possible need to help sort this ecological disaster out! We need a great gathering of people to help solve the problem of plastic pollution!
Support the work of Bob Dratch – see http://www.bob-dratch.org and email bobd@bob-dratch.org to inquire about how to directly support his projects.
A couple of practical things here which are great for individual projects. The point here is to strengthen people locally. I think it is important for everyone to notice what possibilities exist in their very vicinity. What you can do right now even with little resources. In best case the like-minded people meet locally and create change gradually into a good direction.
Free energy is a little big issue, has been for a long time. There are numerous web sites doing grassroots work, like free-energy-info.co.uk or peswiki.com. The work has to go on on the grassroots level and preferably open source style, because the traditional alternatives for that are the oil and car companies and governments shelfing the important advances or ‘suiciding’ or ‘disappearing’ the inventors; or the inventors closing and patenting the inventions, hardly never to be heard again. Anyone can take one little project from these web sites and see how it goes.
Another is farming and gardening. I think it will be very important for everyone do their best to have even a little garden patch to grow some vegetables. Having a little bed of 2 x 2 meters is an excellent start for learning some gardening. If you don’t have any piece of land available then guerrilla gardening is a very nice option too. Just find a spot from the nearest flower beds and plant some pea, bean and carrot seeds in them. :) Some apple tree or blackcurrant bush here and there are nice and don’t cost too much per person. When everyone does it there will be food growing everywhere and it will be nice for everyone. See from where the wind usually blows in your area and plant the vegetables so that the wind doesn’t blow straight from big roads.
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