[Lapg] Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage business needs your help - and it's easy!

[Lois Arkin]

Please take a few minutes to help Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage win their 
wind generator:  ecovillages helping ecovillages!

Go to http://www.ideablob.com
to vote for Dancing Rabbit.  See below for background.

Between now and midnight on Tuesday, September 30th, you can vote for 
the Mercantile by registering at http://www.ideablob.com  After you 
register you will be directed back to your email to confirm your 
registration. The Mercantile's application is called "Strawbale Business 
Opens." It takes less than 3 minutes. After voting you can simply 
‘unsucscribe.’


Thanks,
Lois
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Dear Lois and Lara,

My name is Alline Anderson. I have been a member of Dancing Rabbit 
Ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri since 1999. Building a village from 
scratch based on ecological principles is the hardest and most rewarding 
thing I’ve ever done. I am writing to ask for your help. If this feels 
like spam I apologize. I’m just really excited and need the help of our 
extended community – and helping is pretty easy.

Our business, the Milkweed Mercantile at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, has 
made it to the finals for a $10K award with a website called Ideablob. 
As improbable as it sounds, the winner is determined each month simply 
by who gets the most online votes.

We are currently in second place behind a well-connected, well-known 
design firm. Actually, we are getting slammed – they are wiping the 
floor with us, and then coming back for seconds.

I believe that if everyone we know votes for us and then asks just one 
other person to vote for us, we could pull it off. What an amazing feat 
for a little Ecovillage in rural Missouri! A win would not only provide 
funds to help purchase our wind turbine but would gain incredibly 
positive national visibility for green businesses, renewable energy, 
Ecovillages, Cohousing communities, intentional communities, the FIC and 
FEC, straw bale builders, and a more sustainable way of life.

Please help!

Between now and midnight on Tuesday, September 30th, you can vote for 
the Mercantile by registering at http://www.ideablob.com  After you 
register you will be directed back to your email to confirm your 
registration. The Mercantile's application is called "Strawbale Business 
Opens." It takes less than 3 minutes. After voting you can simply 
‘unsucscribe.’

Proprietors Kurt and Alline ask (beg, plead and grovel) that you ask at 
least one friend, family member or colleague to vote. This is one of 
those times when one person really CAN make a difference.

A bit more about The Milkweed Mercantile:

A new privately owned business at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, the 
two-story, strawbale solar and wind-powered Milkweed Mercantile is 
nearing completion. Included in the spacious building are a four-room 
Bed & Breakfast Inn, a Cafe and an Eco General Store, which will serve 
the local community and tourists to the area.

Hundreds of people who visit Dancing Rabbit annually will now have the 
opportunity to experience green living (solar & wind power, bathing in 
rainwater, sleeping in a handcrafted strawbale building, eating local 
organic food), seminars on everything from organic gardening to home 
energy efficiency, as well as the beauty and serenity of the prairie 
landscape: star-filled skies, fireflies, wildflowers & songbirds. Our 
hope is that they will take away tools for a more sustainable life.

The goal of the Mercantile is to be a business incubator for members of 
Dancing Rabbit, and to support the local farmers, gardeners, businesses 
and community in general.  The business is profit sharing, cooperatively 
run, based in sustainability & genuinely earth-centered.

Our website: http://milkweedmercantile.com
Our photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/milkweed/sets/72157603900100835/

Thank you for your consideration and support! If you have any questions, 
please feel free to email or call me!

Alline Anderson
Milkweed Mercantile
660-883-5634


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"Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said "I have a 
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