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Green Volunteerism: Getting Techie
Virtual volunteering
It’s not quite as simple as getting a good night’s sleep while your Second Life avatar does the heavy lifting, but volunteering is going virtual. If your time or mobility is limited, or if you enjoy putting your computer skills to work, you could volunteer to design logos, graphics, web sites for good green causes, to write tips and advice on going green, to organize and publicize events, or much more. The UN has a dedicated organization for Online UN Volunteers.
Volunteer Role Models
If you still don’t know where to start, check out the personal stories of celebrities and high-profile do-gooders. Reading their inspirational stories and seeing the changes they can effect in the world may motivate your search for your path to making a difference. A few role models we love include: Majora Carter, the phenomenal force for environmental justice whose motto is “Greening the Ghetto.” Wangari Maathai, who won a nobel prize for her work on environment and sustainability with the Green Belt Movement. Jill Buck, founder of the Go Green Initiative. Jeff Yeager, who has turned 24 years of experience as CEO and senior executive in nonprofit organizations into being “selfishly employed” volunteering his time and offering his wisdom by writing and speaking.
Intimidated? Don’t be. Check out these everyday heroes: Mike Ward, a high school principal who decided to ride his bike to work. Taylor Schmidt, a student from the town of Greensburg Kansas whose enthusiasm for the green movement and the amazing things it’s doing for his town after the devastation caused by the tornado that leveled it are an inspiring look at the future of green in America.
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