[GSBN] A Climate Ride Challenge for Straw Building from David Arkin

[David Arkin]

Hi Derek:

I'll admit, that possibility hadn't occurred to me … that folks would be deterred from donating out of kindness!  I like that.

I'm not expecting we'll hit those targets, but if we do I'm physically able to do it, though note we did revise the wager to a more reasonable scale (it made for a good photo, though).  My hope is that we make that goal on the final day, so I'm hauling a slightly bigger bale over the Golden Gate Bridge to SF City Hall, where we might make the local paper and explain that buildings can be made of straw (insert 3 pig joke here), and sequester carbon as a viable solution to climate change.  

Even if it's just a mini-bale with 'CASBA' on it, and a few photos (good idea!), that'll sell.  They say there's no such thing as bad PR … at this point we'll have to go with that.  Come ride with us next year!

Thanks for the thought, and contribution to the causeba,

David

On May 17, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Derek Stearns Roff <derek at unm.edu> wrote:

> Hi, David,
> 
> I think it is great that you are doing this ride, and I'm glad that I could donate to your fund raising, but I have a suggestion.  Your current campaign seems to be based on the thesis, "the more you donate, the more I will make myself suffer."  I don't want to increase your suffering, and I suspect that many of your friends feel the same.  So unless your enemies are donating in large numbers, I wonder if we can think up something a little more positive and effective as donation motivation and as publicity during the ride.  How about, if the donations reach the next level, you carry the mini-bale, and a beautiful, full color, NOT printed on vinyl, appropriately-sized banner with pictures of a couple of beautiful SB homes?  
> 
> Maybe you or the creative people on this list would have a better idea, but we want the public to realize that strawbale is fun, not a struggle.  It would be bad for SB PR, if at every rest stop, people were asking each other, "Who is that sweaty guy struggling up every hill?"  "Do you mean the crazy man who feeds his bicycle on hay?"
> 
> Just a thought,
> Derek
> 
> 
> On May 17, 2013, at 12:03 AM, David Arkin wrote:
> 
>> Dear GSBN:
>> 
>> Final Pre-Ride Update:  Since I can't realistically haul a full 3-string bale (just too unwieldy - see picture), we're revising the challenge:  An anonymous donor will match every donation dollar-for-dollar between $5000 and $10,000, but the deal is the same:  I'm already carrying a mini-bale, but at $7k (that's only $6k because of the match) I'll switch to an Xtracycle, and at $10k ($7.5k) I'll haul a 2-string or half of a 3-string bale.  All donations from here forward go entirely to CASBA, 100% tax-deductible, and everything we raise above $5k will go toward the code effort!  Thanks!!   
>> 
>> Sunday we ride,
>> 
>> David 'hoping for a strong bale-wind' Arkin
>> 
>> http://bike.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2034
>> 
>> ps:  Shout out to Bruce, Marty, David E., Derek, Kevin Donahue, Janet Johnston, Barbara Roemer, Marisha Farnsworth and Pete Gang (who's also riding for CASBA), Team CASBA Riders Ian MacLeod and Karl Sporer, and our other donors for all the support so far!
>> 
>> <BaleCrop.jpg>
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