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color:blue'>This came out of discussion taking place on the Oklahoma
Sustainability Network listserv. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Perhaps something to think about after we’re past the madness of
RRR for SOKC and Transition Town … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org
[mailto:ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Trey
Parsons<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Sustainability Issues in Oklahoma'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ok-sus] Battlestar Galactica thread --YouTube Nonprofit
Raises $10, 000 in One Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Brian, I think you’re on the right track. The best way
for OSN to get the most bang for her buck is most likely in increasing the
internet presence. …well, other than grants, I guess. But anyway,
here’s a post from YouTube’s blog that might get a bee in someone’s bonnet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Something to keep in mind- is that the majority of
Oklahoman’s are going to need some coaching and prodding to get this state
green. Some videos to spread the wealth of OSN knowledge might be
cool… You know how we Okies love some television. Hey, what about
hooking up with OETA? I have a friend that does production for Outdoor
OK… He’d be a good contact.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Just thinking out loud… <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Peace,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Trey Parsons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:windowtext'>March 27, 2009 | Posted by:<a
href="mailto:editor@youtube.com">Ramya Raghavan</a> | <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=LD50xTsUNaw">Permalink</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;color:windowtext'>YouTube Nonprofit Raises $10,000 in
One Day Using Overlay Ads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:windowtext'>This week, we launched a new "Call to
Action" feature for YouTube's nonprofit partners, which allows them to use
InVideo overlays to drive traffic to an off-YouTube web page, where they can
collect signatures, email addresses, or even donations. Already, we're seeing
nonprofit organizations use this new feature with great success. <br>
<br>
On Sunday, to commemorate World Water Day, we <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEnlrE4iMBU" target="_blank"
title="featured a video from charity:water">featured a video from charity:water</a>
on the YouTube homepage. The video included a Call to Action overlay that
encouraged YouTube users to donate money to help build wells and provide clean,
safe drinking water for those who don't have it. <br>
<br>
</span><a
href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lPYfFCrsPcw/Sc0XX45Z8PI/AAAAAAAAAB8/JZYt-VncD7c/s1600-h/Picture+182.png"><span
style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=320 height=203
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style='color:windowtext'><br>
<br>
The response from the YouTube community was overwhelming -- thanks to you,
charity:water was able to raise over <b>$10,000 in one day</b> from the video.
That's enough to build two brand-new wells in the Central African Republic and
give over 150 people clean drinking water for 20 years! <br>
<br>
Feeling inspired? If you're a YouTube nonprofit partner, adding a Call to
Action overlay is easy. Just go to "Edit Video" and fill out the
fields in the section marked "Call to Action overlay." All you have
to do is include a short headline, ad text, a destination url, and upload an
optional image, and the overlay will appear whenever someone watches your
video. <br>
<br>
If you're a nonprofit organization in the U.S. or U.K. who hasn't yet joined
the YouTube Nonprofit Program, but would like to gain access to Call to Action
and other special benefits, you can apply now at <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits" target="_blank"
title="www.youtube.com/nonprofits">www.youtube.com/nonprofits</a>. <br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
Ramya Raghavan<br>
YouTube Nonprofits & Activism <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org
[mailto:ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian
Figgins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 29, 2009 5:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cxg300@sbcglobal.net; Sustainability Issues in Oklahoma<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ok-sus] Battlestar Galactica thread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Chuck<br>
You don't have to convince me that OSN is still needed. My point is just
we need figure out what we want to do before we talk about hiring staff or fund<br>
raising outside of the conference. Those aren't an end to themselves but
a means to an end.<br>
<br>
Now the <span lang=EN>Alliance for Sustainable Colorado sounds like a good
organization for us to look at to see if that is what we want to emulate.<br>
<br>
One future I can see for OSN is to become the Treehugger of Oklahoma. We
could have a robust website where people from around the state would be able to
contribute articles and they would be published without any coding
needed. Sites like Treehugger are form driven. No one builds a HTML
page for each article, the website builds the page based on variables. We
could then have a RSS feed from the site.<br>
<br>
This approach allow each chapter to easily place information on a regularly
updated site. Chapters would still have their own page but how often do
most check other chapters websites. I probably now more of what is going
on environmentally speaking in California than in Tulsa.<br>
<br>
It also gives us a goal to fund raise for too. We may build in the
ability for OSN members to vote for which issues the organization wants to
support (a la MoveOn.org).<br>
<br>
While we probably should want until a membership meeting to make a decision as
an organization what direction we need to take, I think we should brainstorm
via the listserve so that when we meet we will have well developed ideas that
the group can make an informed decision on.<br>
<br>
Let's keep the ideas going.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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Chas Gross wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>I
think that you make a good point, Brian. Do we still need OSN?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Well,
you would not be reading this post if not for OSN, which pays for the
listserv. I do not think that the DSM rules would have gotten public
participation like it did if not for OSN. Where would the firm position to
build Red Rock only if needed and if it was to be built, to firmly request
that it be built with as little pollution as was possible if it was not for
OSN? Would some other organization have stepped into the void, and taken the
leadership roles which OSN members have taken? Maybe so, but to quote Bobby
Kennedy, “If not us, who?” Ok, that was just part of the quote, but it is the
relevant part, for this discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Given
the inspiration which OSN brought to the establishment of SNOW, or at least
to the several people who did found SNOW, there would be no Chapter in
Bartlesville. No push to save the only local recycling center, about to close
because of mounting losses. No cleanup of the Caney River. No effort to
promote recycling at Sunfest, a local but smaller version of Mayfest in
Tulsa. I cannot speak for other Chapters, but OSN does have a purpose. And, I
think that purpose exists in conjunction with the individual Chapters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>To
deal with the obvious perception that OSN is pulling resources away from the
local Chapters, I know of no example which supports this perception. OSN
exists as a statewide organization to enable the Chapters to have the
communication and benefit of the numbers which we have when we need those
numbers. The Community Foods grant which supports the Buy Fresh, Buy Local
efforts, in part, was made possible because of the statewide organization.
The history of OSN helped make the Clean Energy program effective. Perhaps
each of the four coal fired plants which have not been built after permits
were submitted still would not have been built even if OSN were not around to
provide the people, research, facts and hard work to help keep Oklahoma a
desirable place to live, and to advocate on behalf of clean energy. We will
never know. And, we will never know because of the hard work which was done
by members of the OSN. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>When I
look at the amazing results of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado and an
offshoot of their organization, the Colorado Alliance for Sustainable
Business Associations, I see what Oklahoma has just over the horizon. An
email from CASBA to its members, if forwarded to the individuals who belong
to the related organizations, will reach 10,000 members, mostly involved
professionals. To look at Colorado’s legislation, one would think that it was
run by the Colorado Alliance. From building standards, to support for individual
rights, to environmental leadership, the Alliance has been at the forefront.
Of course, they need their 20+ employees, many part time, to keep their
efforts going, and have a pretty good head start on Oklahoma. Take a look at
their website - I think it will inspire you as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'><a
href="http://www.allianceforcolorado.org/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.allianceforcolorado.org/</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Please
do not take what I say wrong. I put in a lot of hard work to help establish SNOW
and build its membership. OSN is not going to go to Bartlesville and start a
Farmer’s Market. But SNOW members by ourselves cannot go to the Corporation
Commission and have an effective voice like the OSN does. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>I have
proposed looking at the type of organizational changes OSN needs to adapt to
the growth from a listserv-based organization to one with nine Chapters
across Oklahoma. I do not think that everyone has the time to just jump from
a long weekend at the Conference to another to talk about where we go from
here. Most of us have to earn a living, and being sustainable, have other
duties in our varied lives. This is why I suggested a membership meeting for
October as opposed to right now. I think that this discussion like we are
having related to how the combined efforts can be integrated to have a better
Oklahoma, with cleaner air, cleaner water, and an overall better lifestyle is
a big part of the evolution of the OSN. <br>
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I hope that everyone will continue to participate, and continue this discussion.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Chuck
Gross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>bfiggins
at cox.net</span></strong><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
<a
href="mailto:ok-sus%40lists.oksustainability.org?Subject=%5Bok-sus%5D%20OSN%20and%20Battlestar%20Galactica&In-Reply-To=01e801c9af15%244ccae870%24e660b950%24%40net"
target="_blank">bfiggins at cox.net </a><br>
<i>Fri Mar 27 14:49:09 PDT 2009</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Shauna,
You make a fair point that OSN should not pull resources away from any of the
chapters. The local chapters have the greatest influence at the local level.
I know that when I first spoke to the city council in Mustang. They wanted to
know if I lived in Mustang. They would not have put near as much
consideration if I was an outsider. I would be way less effective lobbying
the OKC City Council just as you would be less effective lobbying Mustang.
But is there a role for an organization to work at a state wide level? The
work that Harlan has done on Demand Side Management with the State
Corporation Commission may have been more difficult if it was conducted by a
local chapter. During the conference, the topic of making more efficient
building codes came up. The biggest issue was the towns were afraid that
strengthening their building code would drive development to the next town. A
state wide approach might be an attractive way to tackle this issue. The
local chapters are were most of the action is at. Local advacacy is more
effective on local issue and everyone knows that there is alot of those. Many
of them are the low hanging fruit that we can tackle quickly while developing
the resouces we need to tackle larger issues. But do we still need OSN? If
so, what should it's purpose be? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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