Oh, hello!
You've caught me slicing and drying bell peppers and bananas, which will be dried and sealed into mylar bags so I can feed my family during the coming zombie apocalypse. You may think that's a pretty lame thing to be doing on a Friday night. And you would be right. I've got a long night of bagging 40 pounds of flour and dried foods...and that's pretty intensely paranoid and lame.
It IS lame. And THAT is EXACTLY why I desperately need you to send me to Netroots Nation this year. And all you have to do is click This Link to my Netroots Nation scholarship application and then click Add Your Support.
I very much want to go to Netroots Nation.
But look *turns out pockets...makes a sad face*
Boo. No money. I've used it all to buy a bunch of peppers and bananas from the reduced price produce cart at the store so I could dry it all while watching old reruns of Red Dwarf, just like my crazy grandmother would have done and who stuffed Taco Bell sporks into her purse by the fistful when she thought nobody was looking because she lived through the Depression........except for the whole watching Red Dwarf and having Indoor Plumbing and Internet Connection thing.
Okay. Maybe I'm overplaying my hand a bit. But the point is I want to go to Netroots Nation this year.
Why?
Because there's a LOT of stuff going on this year and a lot at stake: Michigan is facing a ban on offshore wind power. We're dead in the water on offshore wind permitting frameworks in Michigan. We have a 25% renewable portfolio standard ballot initiative that I may...or may not be....helping an organization out with on a professional basis at some point here...........
.....there's a ton of stuff going on and I can't just hang around on the sidelines. I've stuck my neck into the hornets nest of Michigan renewable energy politics. My friends and I have lit up a fire of support for a whole new renewable energy industry in West Michigan, from a 100 MW wind farm in Muskegon County, lured here by our organization...to a proposed wind power component manufacturing park spearheaded by two large companies who said they've chosen Muskegon because it's "wind friendly."
We've gone from a town with some of the highest unemployment in America to a town that may be coming back, with an advanced battery manufacturing plant on the Horizon, thanks to Obama and Granholm, and a potential wind power component manufacturing park.
We've come a long way! And now what? Now I 'm supposed to just sit it out and hope for the best in 2012?
Screw that. I may have peppers to dry, but I've also gotta somehow get to Rhode Island to start networking with some of the loudest and best progressive voices in America and in Michigan.
There's much work do be done. My friends and I have come quite a long way with promoting renewables and green manufacturing in Michigan...but we've got a long way to go.
So please click the link and give me your endorsement. I need to go to Netroots Nation this year.
Thanks guys.
Here's but a small sample of my crazy person food horde: