Ride for the Rainforest www.gaiglobal.org Learn how you can support the work of GAI to save the rainforest This page tells you about the RIDE to Save the RAINFOREST The Ride for the Rainforest is a trip to bring attention to the plight of the South American rainforest. Global Awareness Institute, a not-for-profit organization based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, supports a research center and a 75-acre preserve near Iquitos, Peru. GAI seeks to bring responsible sustainable development to the region. THE RIDE is an attempt to raise awareness of the central role that sustainable development will play in saving the forest for future generations. Media are invited to tour the site and learn more. Sponsors are needed. Individual sponsors can pledge to pay ___ cents a mile (2,000 miles = $20) or they can make advanced support by sending funds to Print this page and complete the form: ===================================================== Individual Sponsor Form I pledge ___ cents per mile (up to a maximum of $_____). Name _____________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________ City _______________________________________________ State ZIP Email ________________________________________ Make your check to "Global Awareness Institute" and mail to 2208 SE 20th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316. GAI is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) organization. ===================================================== Thank you for your support. Number of Individual Sponsors (as of March 22, 2003): 8 Total Dollars per mile pledged: $0.16 per mile Total Expected Pledges (at 6,000 miles): $960 (and growing) Approximate dollars per individual sponsor: $120 Corporate sponsors can contact Dr. Brodman at 954 467 3631 If you want to contact Barbara Brodman, you can write to brodman@nova.edu or gai.global@lycos.com Visit the RAINFOREST See the work of Global Awareness Institute Looking For Mr. Guevara -- by Barbara Brodman Author of a motorcycle journey through South America... A thrill-a-minute adventure that takes you motorcycling over the Andes; trekking through desert, mountains and jungle; rafting through class six rapids; and rowing the Amazon. In 1997, Barbara Brodman became the first person, and only woman, to retrace Che Guevara's legendary 1952 journey through South America. Her online diaries of that journey allowed thousands to share her adventures and insights as they happened. Looking For Mr. Guevara expands upon those diaries: with only two months experience on a motorcycle Brodman miraculously makes her way through Argentina, over the Andes, and to Santiago in mid-winter; as an inexperienced rafter she joins an extreme rafting expedition and bungles her way into breaking records on the treacherous Apurimac River; she abandons a sinking riverboat on the Amazon and rows 600 km to Brazil in a dugout canoe. With wit and endurance Brodman strives to capture the essence of Guevara as he was in life, particularly as a young man, and as he might have been had he survived the Cold War and evolved into a 21st century revolutionary. On his journey, Guevara discovered his destiny; Brodman does the same. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp? userid=2X8KQSKX7A&isbn=0595180698&itm=1 Frequently Asked Questions about THE RIDE FOR THE RAINFOREST Why are you doing this? The rainforest needs support. Why can't we just harvest the rainforest? We'll change the rainforest if we harvest it. Can't we selectively remove trees and sell the lumber to suport the people of Peru? Removing trees before their time changes the rainforest. When trees die, there is no hole in the canopy becuase other trees have taken their place. But when a lumber company removes the tree, an instant hole to the sky appears. Species run from the sun and the space changes. How do you propose bringing income to the people of Peru? The forest can be a source of eco-tourism dollars. Agricultural products can be extracted. But most importantly laboratory research centers, set up in the forest (not in the city), can identify medicinal products for export. Learn about CAMU-CAMU. So what should concerned consumers do in the Industrialized North? What should we buy? This question is typical of a consumer-based economy. Before asking "what can we buy?" we need to ask "what structural changes need to take place in Peru and how can our govenrment support those changes?" However, since we are consumers first, patriots second and citizens of the world third, let's deal with the buying issue... "What structural changes need to take place in Peru and how can our govenrment support those changes?" Generally, most efforts to help the people and ecosystem of the rainforest have led to further destruction. Better communciation was thoght be to needed -- connect the Selva to the world economy. The improved transportation has led to more deforestation and expansion of agricultural lands through slash and burn techniques. Bringing free trade zones to Manaus and other Amazonian centers was thought to improve the lot ofthe people by bringing jobs. Most of the jobs are low-wage and repetitive. the salaries are largely consumed in the cities and the people in the forest do not benefit. The distractions of industrialized western culture and the "more-more-more" attitudes of consumer society lead to a change inthe attitudes of the people who live in the forest. Rather than looking for ways to preserve traditions, everything is questioned and the old ways are abandoned. GAI proposes that the govenrment should fund, with private industry, the creation of co-operatives to support balanced methods of sustainably extracting resources from the rainforest. (And then Government and industry should step aside and let the co-op work...) Export of plants appears to be the most sustainable activities at present, and the Ride for the Rainforest will raise the funds tol support this search for sustainable commerce. If you want to save the Selva for the next generation, support GAI. Francisco Grippa is a new wave of residents of the rainforest... He produces a product (art) and exports it. A portion of the proceeds of his sales supports the efforts of non-profit organziations like GAI. Science Museums... http://www.most.org/cs_Index.cfm Museum of Sci and Technology, Syracuse, NY What should students learn? What should schools teach? "Didn't your teachers teach you about ___________?" Contact the webmaster at englishlesson@mail.com THE MANAGER OF THIS WEB PAGE is Steve Contact me at englishlesson@mail.com |
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