1% for the People

Many folks are familiar with the ‘1% for the Planet’ initiative -- in a nutshell, it is a group of business that recognize that their commercial viability and the livlihood of their customers depends on natural resources.  These businesses have pledged 1% of their sales to fund environmental initiatives.  There are over 900 of them in the United States alone; Patagonia, maker of adventure clothing and gear, is one of the better known.

Here at Blue Boat Home Design’s world headquarters, we’ve also decided to donate 1% of our sales to worthwhile organizations.  Specifically, we’re calling it ‘1% for the People’ -- in short, 1% of our sales will go toward organizations that work towards fulfilling our mission to help people gather together and understand one another.

In 2009, 1% of our sales went towards Tim DeChristopher’s legal defense fund.  This year (2010), the donation went toward KRCL, a local public radio station that not only plays great music, has no advertising, and actively challenges the entrenched conservative politics in Utah (interestingly, although not surprisingly, GOP Representatives from Utah have unanimously voted to end funding for public radio).

If you also believe in having an independent voice unaffected by corporate interest giving you your news, then donate here.



http://www.peacefuluprising.org/climate-trial 

http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/en/ 

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-salt-lake-city/utah-votes-along-party-lines-to-cut-npr-funding 

http://www.krcl.org/