A very important civil event will be occurring on June 26, 2010 to protest off shore drilling. Hands On The Sands is requesting all people who want clean renewable energy take 15 minutes of their day on Sat. June 26 to Hold Hands in support of Clean Energy. All you have to do is show up at your beach at 11 am (your local time) and hold hands- Let people know you care, support your local beach and the volunteers who clean up.
This movement is about protecting our natural resources and finding alternatives ways to reduce our dependence on oil. The movement started in Florida (see video)
Hands Across The Sand from Walton Outdoors on Vimeo.
To find your closest beach- go to the site and click on your state you closest locations will be shown, including states and cities with no beaches.
Join me, bring your friends and protest off shore drilling for your future.
Thanks for this post. I became a fan of this event on fb and I’ll be looking for a beach for that day to join hands. Great idea! At least I can do….
Don’t know if a bunch of people holding hands is gonna wake up the public. The fact remains, we are all guilty of the oil spill. Those of us who have to have big cars, multiple cars, and live far away from our work place. I am guilty, I drive 5 blocks to the store. I don’t carpool. I drive a 28 MPG car….which isn’t bad, but there is better.
People WAKE UP, we all need to stop driving, if there is no demand, they won’t keep drilling in stupid places
Not only stop driving, stop using plastic- no bags, no bottles, reduce purchases, and walk, walk or take a bike to work or the store.
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We really need to put technology to work on this problem. We are going to end up with beaches the size of sidewalks if we keep hauling it off to landfills.
http://oilspill-biosciguy.blogspot.com/
Why aren’t we doing something! If they keep hauling the contaminated soil off to landfills we are going to end up with beaches the size of sidewalks. Let’s clean the oil from the sand!!!!
OK, so this is a very nice peaceful rally/protest, but what I want to know is how did they get to the beac h? Until WE, myself included, stop driving our cars, and purchasing cars with low fuel economy, we are not going to help our world….
Question to ask yourself:
Do you drive the best car for you and your families needs? My brother has 6 kids, so he needs a large car to get the 8 of them places…so for some an 8 seat large vehicle is OK. No one can answer that question but you. I think I drive a reasonable car for my families needs…but could I do better? Please people, next time to go buy a car….think about the oil spill and why BP was drilling in the gulf was for us to have our big cars.
I am riding my bike to the beach, car pooling is another option, bus, walking are wonderful options to getting to a beach
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