Only six dollars?!

That’s right: six dollars. The price of a sandwich, or a couple of lattes from you can help PSM raise $6,000 by May 20.

If our supporters donated six dollars today, we’d raise enough money for Project Survival Media to focus full time on building our new program Solutions for Survival (S4S).

The reason? If you donate, your contribution will automatically DOUBLE. That’s right: we already have two donors who have generously committed to matching donations up to $1,000 each. The thing is, we don’t receive the additional $2,000 if we don’t raise $2,000 first. So we need your help. Please donate $6 (or $60? or $600?!) today.

We mentioned in our previous post that we’d give you the low down on S4S in the days to come…and that day is today!

Solutions For Survival

As people around the world work to solve the climate crisis, politicians in the United States continue to obstruct the official UN process and attempt to pass weak legislation.

It’s clear that we’re battling way more than climate change: dirty energy corporations are dumping billions of dollars into our political system–and citizens all over the globe are misinformed about the fundamental elements of the climate crisis.

Here at Project Survival Media we’ve decided to address these two obstacles.

First we’ll address the political obstacles in the US that are preventing wide-scale implementation of renewable energy. We’ll be working on a short documentary inspired by President Obama’s recent statement: “No matter how fast we ramp up those [clean] energy sources, we’re still going to have enormous energy needs that will be unmet by alternative energy.”

We want to dive into this. What does America’s energy usage really look like? What does our renewable energy potential really look like? Can we dramatically scale up our renewable energy production given the financial limitations of a recession? How much money are we currently spending on subsidies for big oil and big coal? And, lastly,

The answers to these questions can blow the doors off the current energy debate in the US. If we can break down the realities of regional renewable energy potential (a very wonky topic in and of itself), and juxtapose this information with an expose of the subsidies the US government gives to dirty energy, we’ll have done something profound.

S4S will assemble media teams from 6 regions: the West Coast, South West, Midwest, North East, South East, and the South. These teams will work alongside an even bigger team of researchers and editors that will help find and synthesize the relevant information and put it into a cohesive and compelling story. And when we begin the production of the documentary, we’ll give you a backstage pass. You can expect monthly updates from the field reporters and filmmakers.

With this film, we’ll be able to show what is actually possible given the existing financial and technological resources. By doing that, we’ll help change the political reality that is currently holding our future hostage. We are partnering with communities, organizations, and activists to equip campaigners throughout the US with a powerful educational tool, a moving narrative of real people in every region in the US, and research that they can stand confidently behind–and we’ll give the public inspiration to call on their legislators to do more.

Second, we’re designing a web-platform and global offline journalism program to address the lack of resources available to citizens world-wide on climate solutions.

Our governments are simply taking to long to enact real solutions. And there’s no time to lose: with an increasingly unstable climate we must make solutions available to communities world wide. Through new media, this global sharing is made infinitely easier.

This part of S4S will uncover how communities our coping with this huge challenge, and how others can follow their lead. S4S will focus on the implementation of tangible, local, and equitable climate solutions. Youth journalists all over the world will apply to be on a regional media team in this 18 month program. The entire program will be broken up into 3 month sections where the regional teams will focus on solutions in the following areas: Women, Water, Solar, Agriculture, and Urban Planning/Transportation. At the end of each month regional teams will submit a video, photo montage/essay, or blog.

PSM reporting is particularly good at creating powerful narratives that evoke an active emotional response; we know how to get people involved through our inspirational media. To amplify our impact even more we will partner with organizations, who specialize in blueprinting climate solutions step by step. And by creating an ongoing media buzz on our website, in the blogosphere, and potentially in some big traditional media outlets, we will help communities worldwide implement these survival solutions.

We will do our utmost to put these survival solutions into the hands of people and organizations, connecting real people who can inspire and teach one another. We plant the seeds for ideas to take root in many places at once, and grow the global civil movement to fight climate change.

We want to get started, we have so much work to do. But we need your help.

Please make a donation of just $6 today.

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