Required Amount: $ 2000.00
Total to date: $ 2150.00
Required by: September 12, 2006 | FUNDED!! |
What do you mean, sustainable?
Good question. The Sustainable Route will document the continuing exploration of the ’sustainable’ movement. Megan and I are recent Bennington College graduates with self-designed degrees in Visual Arts and Environmental Studies. We decided to take a road trip and visit different places around the country where average people are grappling with pending doom; ie global climate change, increasing populations, peak oil, threats to biodiversity, etc. There is a lot to chew on these days when it comes to making simple decisions. Where is our food coming from, how do we get electricity, what is the impact of our lifestyles on the world around us? What are average people, like ourselves, doing in their communities to define and work towards ’sustainability’?
Come with us as we travel along and seek out the crest of this green wave!
Go to sustainableroute.com to add suggestions of projects and places to visit.
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We Support This Project:
First, we love Ashley because she’s Ryanne’s sister. She has been doing great vlogging work since 2005 (Common Courtesy vlog). Not only has she been creating, she teaches and inspires others around her (Rusted Gate vlog, Make A Difference vlog) We also love her project: drive around the country for 4 months(!) and make a video exploring every place she visits. Suggestions of sustainable projects to visit will be coming straight from the community. At the end, we’ll have an awesome scrapbook of what sustainablity looks like through individuals living and working in the United States. A portion of the money raised will be donated to a carbon offset program, like Carbonfund.org, in order to help reduce the ecological footprint her traveling will create.
| Deliverables |
1 Video per Location |
| Timeline |
Sept-Dec 2006 |
| Purpose |
Food, Gas, Lodging |
| Amount |
$2000 |
| Recipient |
Ashley Hodson |
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November 9th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
First off, this is really exciting. MY name is Ashley Hodson as well. I live in Colstrip Montana. I have spent the last five years looking to see if there is another Ashley Hodson in the world, and I have FINALLY found you!!!! This makes me unbelievably happy! I think your trip is going to be great!!! Have lots of fun!!
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:50 pm
You’ll have a guardian angel riding with you. Have fun.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Nice to see this project funded so quickly. Have a good trip.
$ 10
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
oops, well, here’s my little bit, even though you’ve already made it to your goal!
$ 10
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
I’m throwing down a little bit as much as this post college grad can. I think this is awesome and I hope to see you on your road trip.
pending
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Have fun out there.
$ 100
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Congratulations on reaching your goal. Hopefully, this extra bit will make the road a little smoother.
Your friend,
Luke
$ 200
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Rashley Rules! Love from Dad and Laurie
$ 50
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:31 pm
good luck!
not disclosed
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
We welcome your visit to the Broadened Horizons Organic (Teaching) Farm
$ 10
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 am
Now THIS is a project that I can identify with. What would be REALLY cool of course, would be if you could take your tour beyond the borders of the USA (like to Latin America). But hey, I guess we need to start somewhere.
Greetings from Rwanda.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:14 am
[…] This third project is called The Sustainable Route and is the brainchild of Ashley Hodson. Ashley wants to drive around the country and find out from regular people how they are engaging in sustainable practices. This really is awesome because there are a lot of people out there living sustainably in ways that most people have never heard of, much less engaged in. […]
$ 20
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:31 am
rad! i look fwd to seeing what happens.
$ 15
August 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pm
good luck!
$ 50
August 21st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy!
not disclosed
August 20th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
COME see us at Broadened Horizons Organic Teaching Farm
$ 20
August 20th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Maintaining and caring for older and historic buildings preserves all the energy used to make and build them. This “embodied energy” is wasted when older buildings are ripped down and new buildings are put up in their place. The value of embodied energy is seldom calculated into the “teardown” decission.
Could you please take note of older buildings and their condition throughout your travels and report back to us on this issue?
John Leeke,
American Preservationeer
$ 20
August 20th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Less talk more do. Thats what I like to see!
$ 30
August 20th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
…
$ 50
August 20th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Good Luck Ash Bash! I have a million suggestions on places I think you should visit, but i’ll put them on the Sustainable Route discussion page! Love!
$ 40
August 19th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
This is a awesome project idea. You go!
$ 20
August 19th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
.
$ 20
August 19th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Might I suggest Terrapass as an interesting company to check out. Good luck and I look forward to seeing the progress.
$ 25
August 19th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Third time’s a charm?!?
$ 10
August 19th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Love the idea of a roadtrip for discovery, and love the idea of letting artists survive being artists through havemoneywillvlog. Interested in who you’ll meet and what you’ll come across in uncovering what sustainability in this country is!
$ 30
August 19th, 2006 at 9:03 am
YEs! I’m so freakin excited about this… Go nuts! don’t forget to go to the permaculture class at Evergreen… and all sorts of other crap. i gotta compile suggestions for you sometime soon.
$ 10
August 18th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
For me the issue is diversity. The important resource area of diversity is fuel. Why is there a predominance of oil for transportation fuel. Transportation largely operates from the mono-fuel of oil. Even electrical cars are charged from oil burning power plants. This is a basic problem that needs to be solved and relates to all the major political problems challenging the U.S. and much of the world.
$ 20
August 18th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
mo money.
$ 40
August 18th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
You can do it Alpha Bear, we believe!
$ 40
August 18th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
have fun !!
$ 20
August 18th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Cool stuff!
$ 20
August 18th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Can’t wait to see the vlogs! Have fun!
$ 50
August 17th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Peace and Chow,
Chow and Peace…
$ 10
August 17th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
looking forward to the results. I have no idea what Americans think of sustainability so it’ll be interesting to see what comes out of the community. good luck with the project!
August 17th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
I tried to donate but got errors (see email to HMWV group for techncal details).
This is a new donation plug-in, so if you have any problems or feedback, please let us know.
August 17th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
If you get a chance, be sure to stop by the Center for Regenerative Design at the College of Marin in California. They have a vlog at marincc.blogspot.com. Best of luck!
$ 20
August 17th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
i’m glad someone wants to be serious but i’m glad it’s not me
$ 1000
August 17th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
good luck ashley!
not disclosed
August 17th, 2006 at 2:50 am
can’t wait for this to get started.
$ 10
August 17th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Good luck.
$ 10
August 16th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Beans.
$ 20
August 16th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Rock on!
August 15th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Ashley:
Good luck. I hope you get all the money which will make this successful. And, maybe you can also use this with the Govt. in some way or maybe sell it to 60 minutes or one of those shows. Do I send the check to you or does it go through Pay Pal?
Loveya,
Winnie
August 15th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Road trip to road trip here’s wishing you the best of luck!
$ 20
August 15th, 2006 at 8:25 am
This is a great project that I would’t mind doing myself. It’s cool that you’ll go do this for us all.
$ 10
August 14th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
This is an incredible opportunity to blur the lines between social issue documentary and the Vlog. At first I thought your vlogging was a tad self indulgent. Well, it is. But I see this as an important aspect in your project. Your gonna tell real peoples stories and your a real person.So good luck and video love
$ 10
August 14th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
let’s get this show on the road
$ 30
August 14th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I think funding this project is a no brainer. I always wonder if all this “sustainable” talk is all just hippie crap. Show me if this stuff is real. I want to see faces and real things happening.