Cross-Country Eco-Video Travel Project
We're planning a cross-country eco-documentary for kids that focuses on renewable energy and sustainable design/living. These are the potential solutions to the problems our kids will inherit - national security, the environment, and the economy.
Q1: What ido you hope to accomplish with your cross-country eco-documentary? 1. We will show that the U.S. has such an abundance of natural resources, we could easily produce 100% renewable elecricity to power our homes, vehicles, and heating/cooling. 2. Sustainable design makes it possible to recycle and reuse 100% of our waste, making a sustainable economy and lifestyle possible. 3. Kids have the power to make their voices heard about the issues that will be affecting their generation. 9-year-old Carrick used an old camcorder to make award-winning videos that have been seen by over 200,000 people, and our cross-country project is the next step in spreading the message of sustainability.
Idea Description
In May/June 2009, we will be traveling the U.S. in our veg-oil powered VW Beetle and profiling renewable energy sites and people/technologies that have made impacts in sustainable design and living. We will compile our video profiles online and onto DVD to distribute to schools, so that kids can be empowered to create a renewable and sustainable future. Our award-winning eco-videos have been seen by over 200,000 people, and the time has come for people to see what solutions exist to solve the problems of energy security, the climate crisis, and our economy. Our website for the project is www.OurRenewableNation.org, which has a map and destination list and all the info about our project.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Winning $10K will allow us to distribute our DVD to schools on a massive scale through the National Science Teachers Association. It is critical for kids to know what tools and resources they have available to use in creating a renewable and sustainable future, free of politics and fear. Teachers will be able to use our DVD as an educational tool in classrooms, where they will be able to choose from our many video profiles what aspects they want to focus on. The per-unit price of producing DVDs in bulk is small, and $10K would buy A LOT of copies for schools. Our eco-video project is an educational non-profit and our mission is to empower kids to create a renewable and sustainable future
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Post a commentI like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs