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Save wildlife habitat with our
click group
The WPM has saved
more than 52 acres of natural habitat for wildlife through our click group at
EcologyFund, and an additional 75 acres through sponsorship of click schemes
at EcologyFund and Care2.com. Most of this land is rainforest brought under
the protection of conservation organizations in Central America.
Currently we focus our efforts on EcologyFund, where we have a click group
with over 290 members. We have saved more land than any other religious group
there, and we are in the
top ten list of all groups saving land.
Why does this matter?
If the state of the planet bothers you, then
here's a contribution you can offer that makes a really
worthwhile difference. It costs you nothing - just half a minute of your
time per day. It's not an alternative to
greening up your life - see
our page on the practical details - but it's a valuable addition.
Each person who clicks every day, at the current total of 63 sq ft per
day, can save at least half an acre of
wildlife habitat per year from development or exploitation! That's almost
22,000 sq ft.
This has benefits for the climate as well as for
biodiversity. If this area were cleared for farming, it could emit up to half a year's carbon dioxide emissions of the average American – or
a year's emissions for an
average European. So your daily clicking is helping to prevent that from
happening.
Rainforest is the most biodiverse habitat on earth. Just one acre contains around 300-400 individual trees of 20
to 80 different species, and each tree is home to thousands more species.
The images on this page show some of the hundreds of plants growing up a single
huge tree in
Costa Rica, each one with their own attendant court of fungi and animals. One tree in Peru was found to house 43
different species of ant.
If it's free for me -
who pays?
After you click on a button, you are shown the
next page which includes ads for eco-friendly companies and non-profits. The payments from
these advertisers goes to fund nature conservation organizations. These
organizations in turn spend the funds on buying up private land in sensitive areas to
dedicate in perpetuity to wildlife habitat. Basically then your clicking is stimulating
organizations and companies to spend money on conserving wildlife habitat.
How do
I know this is for real?
The World Pantheist Movement has
direct experience that it works, because we advertise with EcologyFund from
time to time. When we
advertise, our check is made out to and posted directly to the
conservation organization we wish to sponsor – in our case the
World Land
Trust USA. EcologyFund does not take a percentage cut. World Land Trust
undertakes to preserve one acre of habitat for every $100 donated.
Why is
the WPM so keen on this?
For the World Pantheist Movement, preserving the
diversity of life has always been a top priority. As our belief statement
says:
We are an integral part of Nature, which we should cherish, revere and
preserve in all its magnificent beauty and diversity.
Conserving rainforest is also a matter of
survival for millions of humans whose homes and livelihoods may be threatened
by sea level rise or climate change.
Of course you can save land on your own - but being in a team that can show
visible collective results is a good motivation to stick at it and not
forget, and it gives the excitement and satisfaction not only of your own totals but also
those of the group.
How
do I join your group?
To join our Save Rainforest group:
1.
Register with Ecology Fund
2.
Join the WPM group.
[Scroll down to us & click JOIN]
3. Start
clicking and clocking land.
Make the
Save
Land page your first Web visit of each day.
4. Remember to keep
clicking.
Make
http://www.ecologyfund.com/registry/ecology/donate_home.html
your home page so it’s there first thing every time you go on the Internet,
or make a bookmark.
If you think you might forget,
write to
info@EcologyFund.com to ask for a daily email reminder.
Make sure
your clicks count!
Troubleshooting Guide
EcologyFund uses cookies
stored on your computer to link up your daily clicks with your EcologyFund
identity. They need this so they know it's you who are clicking, and can add your clicks to your own total and
that of the group you belong to. Without the cookie, your clicks will still save
land, but they will not count towards your own achievements or the WPM's.
In this era of firewalls and
browser security settings and ad and popup blockers, it’s very easy for
cookies to get disabled or deleted. If that happens, then your clicks will
not register for you or for the World Pantheist Movement.
It’s really worthwhile
for everyone to check regularly that things are as they should be. So here’s information on
what you should see if everything is working properly – and how to put it
right if it's not.
Check
regularly that your clicks are counting
Look in the left-hand pane
on the
Save
Land page.
Everything is good if you can see
● Your name and totals under
under "My EcologyFund",
●
The WPM name
and totals under "My Group Info," and
●
They both increase when you click on the
save land buttons.
I can't see my name
in the
left hand panel
under "My EcologyFund"
●
Are you registered at
EcologyFund and signed up for the WPM group? (See "How do I join?" above)
●
Are you logged in? Check the left hand pane.
●
Did you already click in the last day? Bear in mind that EcologyFund's
"day" may not coincide with yours and try again tomorrow.
If these measures don't work, maybe your cookie has been deleted or
messed up.
Then you have a
few extra steps to take.
Bear with us here, this is all worth while. Ask a friend to do
this for you if you have computer-phobia.
1.
Delete
the EcologyFund cookie.
Internet Explorer: Go to Tools/Internet Options/General/
Under "Browsing history" Choose Settings/View Files
Sort by site, find ecologyfund.com or www.ecologyfund.com and delete all
ecologyfund cookies. OK out of all the dialogue boxes.
Firefox: Go to Tools/Options/Privacy, click on the "Show
Cookies" button, find ecologyfund and delete all
ecologyfund cookies. Close out of all the dialogue boxes.
2.
Re-register
with EcologyFund
Just your name and email. Make sure you use the same email you used when
you first registered. Click the "Register" button down at the bottom.
3. When it tells you you are registered, MAKE SURE you click on the link
"Click here to return to Ecologyfund's home page to begin free donations."
This is VERY important. If you just go on using your existing bookmark link,
the re-registering process may not work.
4. If the above steps
don't work, make sure your browser allows cookies from EcologyFund.
Internet Explorer: Go to Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Sites, paste
or type in http://www.ecologyfund.com/ and click Allow and OK.
Firefox: Go to Tools/Options/Privacy, click on the Exceptions Button,
paste or type in http://www.ecologyfund.com/ and click Allow and Close.
I can see my name but my totals don't increase
when I click.
Go through steps 1-4 above.
I can't see the WPM name on
the left
under "My Group Info."
Have you joined the WPM group? If not
Register with Ecology Fund and
Join the WPM group.
The total donations under
the WPM
don't increase when I click.
This is a cookie problem. See above
under individual totals.
If all else fails
Write to
webmaster@EcologyFund.com
and
describe your problem. They can send you a link to reset your
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