Re: White House garden campaign action alert: 1200 green thumbs needed this week!

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

Took care of 1 and 3. Not sure about 3.
Will check it our later.

Best Nancy Szerlag
On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Roger Doiron wrote:

> ACTION ALERT: PLEASE VOTE TODAY AND HELP US SPREAD THE WORD
>
> This is a critical week for the White House organic garden  
> campaign, our
> most important week since the campaign was launched last February.
>
> We're asking home gardeners, community gardeners, plant a row for  
> the hungry
> gardeners, locavores, slow food folks, urban farmers, and other  
> green-minded
> people to give 10 minutes of their time to the cause this week by  
> doing the
> following three things:
>
> 1) Vote for us (Eat the View) in the final round of the  
> OnDayOne.org contest
> (1 minute)
>
> http://www.ondayone.org/
>
>
> 2) Vote for us in the final round of the Change.org (4 minutes -  
> longer
> because you need to register first). I realize this is a pain, but  
> it's an
> important contest and we need at least 1200 more votes to become
> competitive.  We're not focusing only on the "First Garden" with this
> contest, but a new Victory Garden movement (which we're calling  
> "Victory
> Gardens 2.0" ) which we believe a new White House garden could help  
> launch.
>
> http://www.change.org/ideas/view/green_the_white_house
>
>
> 3) Spread the word to your email and social network contacts using  
> this
> widget (5 minutes). Clicking on "e-mail" below the widget will open  
> a new
> window where you can upload your yahoo, hotmail, aol or gmail  
> contacts in a
> snap.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7c63e6
>
>
> Thanks for your support.  Together, we are going to help dig this new
> kitchen garden which will inspire millions!
>
> Roger Doiron
> Kitchen Gardeners International
> Eat the View
>
> PS: If you need any additional motivation for taking action, please  
> consider
> the chilling announcement from the United Nations last week that  
> 2009 is on
> track to be the hungriest year in history with over 1 billion people
> affected.
>
>
>
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Nancy Szerlag
Columnist for Detroit News
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