Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week...

But are you trying to equate farms that offer you a discount for fruits or vegetables that you pick yourself, to kids picking up oil/tar balls off of the beaches in the Gulf? If thats the case the kids picking up the oil/tar balls are the clear winners. Its free oil.
My peeve was about letting the kids PLAY in the oil.

Here's the rub.

You offer discount rooms for visitors and play up the "green/ecology" slant.

Get sponsor to donate gloves, bags and other materials. Hold little workshops and get people excited about particpating in the clean up.

Say a 30% discount on room rates in exchange for helping the cleanup?

Toss in a t-shirt and a free food/bbq for a few hours of work during their stay?

"I helped clean up the Gulf Oil Spill" on the shirt, along with the sponsors names on it?

Look at Dawn Dishwashing Liqiud, long before this happened they were selling bottles of the stuff with promises of donating one dollar to the oil spill victims (birds)

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Everyone is sitting around thinking about the negative effects on the area....

If I am the governor/senator of the affected areas, I come out and play up the fact that, altho this is a huge tragedy, the area's people are not giving up.

We always try to rise above out problems.


I have said this before....there are some places on the planet that would absolutely screw up the response to this disaster, either that or shrug their shoulder and say, 'Screw it"....

Sometimes we panic way too soon and never really appreciate or apply the "GIT ER DONE" attitude that got us here.