In the Durango Herald and in the Telegraph.
The Telegraph has a great summary of what a Carrotmob is:
The idea behind Carrotmob is simple: Get local businesses to join a bidding war and whichever business agrees to donate the biggest percentage of a single day’s proceeds toward some sort of environmental upgrade gets the Carrotmob’s help in boosting that single day’s profits. The ultimate goal is to make stores more environmentally friendly, one Carrotmob at a time.
After nearly 2 months of meeting, talking, planning, chalking, flyering and spreading the word, we are 2 days away. Please come join us this Saturday at Stonehouse Subs to grab a tasty sandwich and do something positive for the environment!
And I’d like to personally thank the moms, college students, men and women who have been working so hard to make us a success. It would have been absolutely impossible without them:
Kerstan and Jordan Saylor have been in it from the beginning, put in more time than anyone else, talking to businesses, chalking, talking to their classes, keeping the enthusiasm high when the rest of us flagged, and generally working their butts off!
Sabrina Lemoine, another mom, who’s also been with us from the beginning and helped with all the photography.
Colin Brimm is organizing all the entertainment for (fingers crossed) the line as well as Buckley Park for enjoying your sandwiches.
Mary Peeples had the thankless job of dealing with permits and insurance issues.
Caitlin Connors managed all the signage that you’ve already seen and will see more of on Saturday, and had the hutzpah to wear a giant carrot-shaped sandwich board.
Kent Van Zant spread the word with local politicians (and even landed one to join us on Saturday!) and the entire poly-sci department.
On top of that, everyone spread flyers, talked to everyone they knew, and carried sidewalk chalk around in their pockets for 2 weeks. Everyone except Sabrina and I had to manage all of this around their regular jobs, coursework, mid-terms, and overcame the laissez-faire that’s so tempting when you’re a college student.
Mike Frisoni of Annadel Business Solutions and Cat Mercier of Ecos Consulting donated their time to make sure that the money raised would make the most positive difference possible by walking through Stonehouse and making recommendations for the green changes.
And of course we’re very grateful to Marla and Melissa at Stonehouse Subs for their bid and all their hard work making this happen.
Thank you thank you thank you everyone!!
- Audrey
If you’d like to help, please get out your chalk and spread the news via sidewalk — we’re drawing carrots with the words “durango.carrotmob.org” and 10/24 as a low-impact way to build awareness. And we’ll start flyering next week. Please help us get the word out — if no one shows up all our effort will be for naught!
