Earth Day Virtual March FAQ
- About the March
- Text to Congress
- Picking a Virtual Sign
- Winning an Activist Award
- How to retrieve your Personal Impact link
- How do I read the Impact Map?
- Where can I see the friends that I invited to the race?
About the Earth Day Virtual March
An assault on many of America's species, including us, is underway and moving fast. The Virtual March to Leave NO Species Behind is an online attempt to get the attention of our representatives in Congress and let them know we don’t support the anti-environment, anti-human health, anti-wildlife wildlife agneda promoted by Representatives Tom DeLay, Richard Pombo and their Congressional cronies. With every new marcher, Congress will receive a letter notification that stresses the importance of protecting America from representatives that put the financial wellbeing of campaign contributors above the wellbeing entire country.
Text of the letter to Congress:Dear Representative,
As we approach the 36th anniversary of Earth Day, I have joined Care2.com and Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund in a Virtual March to Leave NO Species Behind. Through my participation in this march, I hope to remind you of your responsibility to protect wildlife, its habitat and the environment we share. To that end please fight against legislative efforts by Representatives Tom DeLay, Richard Pombo and others that would: open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to destructive oil drilling; allow Big Oil to drill off our coastlines -- especially those in California and Florida; sell our national parks to greedy developers; gut the Endangered Species Act which acts as the safety net for so many species on the brink of extinction; weaken laws that prevent mercury and pesticide pollution; and efforts to sell other public lands to timber and mining interests.
Thank you,
YOUR NAME
Because this is a virtual march, you can select a virtual sign to show America you care about our collective future. Either select one of ours, or be creative and come up with one on your own by selecting the white sign and entering your text.
Winning an Activist AwardThe Virtual March to Leave NO Species Behind needs your help to spread across the country, so as a special reward, we're awarding you an activist "ticket" for each of your friends that registers. Starting the week of Valentine's day, and each week thereafter, one activist ticketholder will win an iPod Nano with a custom wildlife wrapper. The more friends that register, the more award tickets you receive! !
How to retrieve your Personal Impack LinkIf you have lost the personal impact link, go to the Race Hompage and click on the link that says 'Already joined but forgot your personal map link?' below the map image on the right side of the page. Then enter the email address you used to join the race and we will email your personal map link to you.
How do I read the Impact Map?The impact map shows all march participants, by degrees of separation. People who joined the march on their own will show up as red dots in the 1st degree of separation. People invited by them will show up as red dots in the 2nd degree listing, and so on. People who you have invited or who were invited by people you invited will show up as blue dots. If you are invited in the second or greater degree of seperation, you will also see the trail of invites leading to you.
Where can I see the friends that I invited to the race?In the right column of your personal impact page you will see a list of friends that you invited to the March. Above the map image, you can click on the 'See who' link to see all the people that you have invited to the march, regardless of if they joined.
