First, the Challenge is Immense
So you must channel your energy.

It's simple, sweeping reforms or sweeping extinctions. We have perhaps a few short decades to get on track. Will our future be "Star Trek" or "Soylent Green?" A single generation will decide. So how to make a difference? What can good citizens do? 

Chances are you only have a few minutes or hours today to do anything at all. First and foremost, you must properly channel your energy. The wrong thing to do is to begin surfing all across the Net and dropping into an 'information gobbling' mode. We are going to help you understand why it is important that you do not become an information voyeur. Additionally, through the use of this web-site, we are going to help you understand why and how activism is suddenly and dramatically different from ever before. 

Success in the movement to save planet Earth will not be accomplished through environmental lessons, but rather by conveying to average Americans a message of a more immediate nature: Not of how they can save the environment, but rather how they can afford to. Success will not be achieved by demanding that our friends and neighbors start thinking about the forests and streams. Success will be measured in our capability to stir ordinary citizens out of their misguided loyalties toward a compromised two-party system and take the next step, vote for a radical legislative agenda.

Most Americans do care about the natural world, yet they want to see a political strategy that improves their daily lives too. The environmentalist message is already with both politicians and our fellow Americans, and both are failing to act yet for two entirely separate reasons. So saving planet Earth will require an entirely fresh approach, not only to U.S. Government--but to other Americans as well. 

It is no longer enough to politely line up every four years and pick the name of a candidate whom you really know nothing about. The truth is you can no more become politically informed every four years from TV ads and articles than you can learn to become a great athlete by watching the Olympics. If we are to ensure long-range environmental survival, the election must go from a periodic distraction, to the finish line of a grand movement. 

Causing Government to make environmental sustainability a legitimate priority is not going to look anything like the way it is presented in the movies. So forget about being the lone crusading hero, but rather seek leadership in a strong and dynamic movement. It is no longer the sixties where average people have the time and money to go out and get active. Now days, thanks to the crush of our current economy, you have a limited number of hours--so knowing where to use those hours is everything. The first step in saving planet Earth is to view yourself as part of a team.

Next, you are sufficiently aware of the recent science which indicates: To stave off long-range environmental decline, humanity has but a brief time frame in which to make substantial political reforms. If you're reading this, you are already aware that science has done its part and that it's time for lawmakers to do theirs. So becoming an armchair environmental scientist will not save the planet. The sum of human knowledge is already there. The bad guys must be curtailed with legislation and law. This will not happen by going off and gobbling more stats. It will only happen by gathering American voters behind candidates who are dedicated to making a difference.

Discontinue the activity of endless talking, web-surfing, and chatting. As we are now realizing, to spend precious hours dragging through the web 'learning more science stuff', and then reiterating it to friends and family is self-indulgent. Science has done its part. Browsing a gigantic volume of findings and endless talking does nothing to save planet Earth. So the next step is to shift away from a mode of information gobbling and talking, into the advancement of a political strategy. 

If you want to make a real difference, your primary focus must be directed towards moving planet-saving legislation past an organized wall of lobbyists and their connected corporate masters. In essence, in the modern-age of activism, our most important task is to stop the forces that stop legitimate reform. With that understanding comes the realization that we must make our goal nothing less than The Separation of Lobbyist and State. 

The only thing that's going to alter mankind's course away from environmental ruin is extensive and legitimate legislative action. To make this happen will require a majority of American lawmakers to vote-in a package of sweeping reforms. At present, both major political parties are entirely complicit in the same schemes and abuses. So, for this groundbreaking legislative event to occur a united majority of voting Americans must elect a new type of lawmaker who represents an un-corrupted political creed. It doesn't take long before you realize that legitimate reform will require an entirely NEW 3rd Party. 

To have the highest impact with the fewest possible hours, the most important thing you can do in your quest to save planet Earth is to get the Common Sense message out to a voting majority of average Americans. The greatest gift you can give to generations not yet born is to support or assist our team in the process of reaching out to the hearts and minds of Americans coast to coast. 

Once you have made this conscious intellectual shift, only then can your few hours truly make a difference in preserving the natural environment far into the future. Common Sense of America is here to receive you when you're ready to make the most of your time in the mission to save planet Earth. 

How to Save Planet Earth?
Less Talking, Less Surfing, More Virtual Volunteering.

Where to Donate?
Getting your money into the right hands. 

It is a brand new age for activism. Does your favorite organization even know? If we are to cure poverty then we must change the economic paradigm. If we are to put an end to urban sprawl we must reject the manifest destiny paradigm. If we are to save the biosphere we must transform the way in which we relate to the natural environment. And if we are to do any of it at all--we must alter the paradigm of government itself. So, how to get your money into the right hands? 

The environmental message is already in the hands of Government, so it's time to take a deeper look into green-groups who claim to need your money.

Both major political parties are entirely complicit in the same schemes and abuses: so money placed there is wasted. 

Humanitarian organizations have ceased to be about the issue and have become stuck in a fundraising cycle without end; so, to give them money is simply supporting their financial interest--and post-1970 cycle of failure. 

All our favorite organizations' need to be taught that the time has come to shift from piecemeal measures --which are virtually always blocked by lobbyists--and become a united front pushing a comprehensive package of sweeping reforms. 

So this is what to do:
If you have a favorite group to whom you like to give money each year, make your gift have value by placing a condition on it. Simply inquire if they have joined The American Activism Council. If they haven't, your money will be rapidly consumed by--the all too evident--cycle of activist failure. 

If they still retain their sincere desire to cause reform, you will find our banner on their web-page. If they don't support this--entirely free--movement then they've lost their vision. In that circumstance, to truly help save planet Earth, make your donation here.

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Does Apathy Really Matter?
Does air? Do trees?

The data is in. By the year 2050 atmospheric CO2 levels will have doubled. Atmospheric CO2 levels will double yet again by the year 2100. Yes, you read it right. 

In just a century we have leveled half the world's rainforests. At the current rate, we will lose 1/2 of tropical plant species by the year 2100. This encompasses 1/3 of all plants on Earth. This will result in far-reaching environmental decline. 

So as we save the whales, we're losing the oceans. While protecting the owls, we're losing the forests. We've hardly begun to save the forests, and already the very air we breath is changing. So now what? The wrong thing to do would be to ignore apathy. 

Pollution never sleeps.
Only people do.

Stay at Home ~ Change the World.
Less Talking, Less Surfing. More Helping.

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1: Gimme', tell me, show me--now!
Expecting instant gratification is a guarantee for disappointment. 
2: Follow the loner path.
Get your mind out of the fantasy mode. 
3: Information gobbling.
Learning more stuff will not save the world. 
4: Talking and talking, and more talking.
Channel your energy into a mission, not a discussion.

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The Poverty Connection
Share the wealth or lose the planet. 

Looking at a photograph of a hungry child does not teach you about poverty. It only reveals to the viewer if he or she actually cares. If the picture of the hungry child moves you, then you possess the human gift of compassion. Realize that in America there are 25 million American children who suffer from poverty. Politicians rarely mention them and more rarely does the media show them. These are the children of unemployed American citizens. You may realize the scope of poverty amongst Americans. However, the business paradigm in which you operate on a daily basis not only cares nothing for the poor but also, consumes the natural environment more aggressively with each passing year. 

The coldness of the modern Economy stands like a wall between average Americans and political activism. We need to extend our mission into the lives of hundreds of millions of average Americans who do care about the environment, but are ready for reform of a more immediate nature. Most of America is locked in an economic struggle. Let's help them out of it so they can help us and each other--save the planet. 

It's certainly something to smile about. The path to environmental survival must begin with doubling your income. more»

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