Guys i have one idea i plan to plant 50 young trees. I'll call it "ECC forest" will be small but still brings some fresh air the planet. Take some pictures with trees. What do you think?
Ive seen this idea on here a couple days ago but how about make a public "ECC for the Trees" Project.
For every XX,XXX amount of ECC donated, we can plant one tree.
Make coins available to see in a public address so everyone knows where the funds are.
For every time we plant a tree, take a picture of the tree and location.
Top Donators receive ECC merchandise (T-Shirts, Hats, Gadgets, etc) or some other incentive to participate.
I would be happy to help set up such a program.
the good thing is anyone can organize it, i can do support it by donating ECC and putting in front of people. At least i can do it alone, i know near place but still investigating the best tree for this climate which needs less water. So i buy some trees, put them car, go to nice place, i handle all these at one picnic. :-)
I can get the ball rolling on this... What do you think would be the best way to implement though? I only want to put time and effort into this if we can get the community behind me.
There are two ways that come to mind right away....
1)
Start the public fund, try to raise maybe 1 BTC in ECC to cover initial set up and hosting of website, first production batch of ECC t-shirts (10 or so), finding plot of land with owner willing to allow bunches of tree to be planted (I have an idea of one so shouldn't be hard), and of course the cost of all the trees. Wallet address listed publically.
------Website setup ($150-$200) and hosting (~$5/mo) cost is minimal but just time consuming.
------I am thinking the custom t-shirts may be $20 a piece? so $200 there, and of course get the trees to plant.
------I was thinking an easy way to get the trees would be to join the Arbor Day Foundation. Its about $15 to get a membership (which includes 10 free trees that are a good match for the area) and discounts on additional tree purchases.
So this method im thinking would be about 1 BTC to start since they are sitting around $450 now anyways.
2)
Per Donation Basis If we cannot get the support for option 1 we can do a "per donation basis" were a whole website and everything wont be set up... just a "ECC for the Trees Project" wallet that will be listed publically and I can post a page on one of the current websites I operate to show the donors and amounts given. Absolute worse case scenario if we do not get enough donors I may be able to come out of pocket for the incentive merchandise but I would like to make it a full community funded project if possible.
Let me know what you think and I will start working (or not working) on it today when I get off the regular 8-5.
DrCharles