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rickshaw run blogs jan 2014 North to south pan-india on a glorified lawnmower
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Every journey conceals another journey within it's lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. Jeanette Winterson Less than 40 days and 40 nights until our departure on the Rickshaw Run the length of India. Caught up in the illusion that we are mapping a clear path and getting ourselves organised. What about the journey within the journey. The causes and charities this event will support. What they DO or stop DO-ing to make the world a better place? We have selected two great causes to be beneficiaries of our journey hoping that what we put out here will come back to them threefold. Each of these organisations demonstrates great actions to take the world to a better place. Today is my admin day to work on the digital touch points for our adventure, to introduce our charities and to start the exchange between our sponsors and community partnerships. Getting the donate links to talk to the facebook team pages and back to DO home is a journey all it's itself. We've kick started the giving with a contribution to each charity. BE CAUSE their agendas are what is behind our epic journey. We want to involve you all in the journey and ask that you spread the word to others to DO the same. Live More Awesome is an organisation tackling depression head on in New Zealand. Creative strategists behind great initiatives to help others to Live More Awesome and to find other ways to deal with overload and depression. Jimi Hunt of LMA author of A little bit mental; is no stranger to doing epic things. His book tells the tale of a journey down the Waikato on a lilo. LMA have created the worlds biggest water slide, initiated the "Gratitude in schools" program and have some 25,000 followers who gain inspiration from their life shifting articles and innovations. Please click the donate now link to Give a Little to Live More Awesome. Go to their webpage on www.livemoreawesome.com to be inspired and find some tips for more Awe, and to read more about their GIVE ME FIVE strategy for funding. There ain't no journey that don't change you some - David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Cool Earth seemed ironic when I first envisaged myself in India - I was thinking summer, sand, etc. The reality is the Rickshaw Run is nothing about comfort, this is not a summer sojourn. Night temperatures will plumet and the tuktuks apparently only work for a while when they themselves are cool so 5am starts are our first tactic. Although the unroute may lead us through the beaches of Goa and environments already deforested; pictures of puffers and thermal blankets at the start makes me very aware of the climatic extremes we are likely to experience on our journey. These places - a long way from home are hard to envisage and connect to from a distance. Out of sight, out of mind perhaps. What if we DO think about them, engage with places and spaces outside of our comfort zones. What would we see there, learn there and find there...a call to ACT-I-ON? What of the journey for our planet, her forests and her future? Cool Earth is the primary charity of the overall Rickshaw Run Jaisalmer to Cochin January 2014 event. All teams registered ( I think there are 70 plus) in the January Run must contribute to raise a minimum of 500 pounds for this great cause. Cool Earth work with urgency to save tracts of rain forest under threat right now. If you have any desire to scare me donate then squillions. The team that raise the most money for Cool Earth win a trip to a piece of threatened forest complete with nightmarish bugs, and extreme conditions. To see first hand how Cool Earth work with indigenous people to save rain forests under immediate threat. The New Zealand local government clients that Edward and I work with through DO and Rationale have helped us to be very aware of the effects of climate change, changing use of assets and the impact on our world as we know it. Finding ways to protect habitats, and to live more sustainably are paramount to all our futures. Give to Cool Earth and know that your donation is going to a great cause. BE CAUSE without trees there just isn't as much to breathe.
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