The 2001 Plan in Brief

  • Our Tasks, Contributions & Events
  • Your Eventual Inputs, Contributions & Offers
  • Milestones & Events Accomplished
  • Co-ordinators

    • Our Tasks, Contributions & Events

    We anticipate a continuing steady flow of tasks to be accomplished and events to report and advance in the preparatory period between now and April 19th, including in the organization at both specific place and regional levels. Over this entire ECFD preparatory period, this Web site will be maintained and fed on a daily basis. Events that are important for the group as whole will be regularly announced and invitations for collaboration on specific themes and places will be issued. If you turn to the 2001 Diary, you can see how this process has unfolded over the initial months of preparation.

    As you look at this list, we would ask you to consider what you specifically might be able to do or contribute to make this a better and more extensive international experience.

  • Start-Up Tasks: 19 Dec. to 18 Feb. 2001
    1. Complete and extend Web site in steady iterations incorporating flow of feedback, proects ideas, etc. from participants and commentators. (This includes making sure that both the Mission Statement and this Task List are fully up to date.)
    2. Flashpoint intro? (This is perhaps not a big deal, but it might nonetheless help us to get our message across. Have a look at what the Portuguese team have done with their enticing introduction by way of example and inspiration for us.)
    3. Translate full site into Spanish and bring on line (early January)
    4. Invite cooperating groups to help us do the same in other languages
    5. Systematically expand, extend and activate lists of Participating Groups and Team Leaders, and once they are aboard assist them in their work to create and incite projects and events at both the city and self-organized group or individual/family project levels.
    6. Review and fill out "World CarFree Allies" list -- and then with the help of volunteers take individual contact with each in order to explore ways of bringing them into the ECFD as active participants and partners.
    7. Develop detailed guidelines for CFD organization at level of city projects.
    8. Ditto for small groups and individual CFD initiatives (the Do-it-Yourself kits).
    9. Review, revise and finalize all ECFD Charter projects-- and begin to circulate for signature
    10. Develop in a few trial run iterations final routines and software to support efficient Events/Project Registeration and the 2001 Event Inventory
    11. Cartoon Festival (develop strategy, contact cartoonist network, etc.)
    12. Assist as possible via all branches of the network to make known and support each individual ECFD initiative (including in particular the Charter projects).
    13. Press gently to ensure that all groups and projects prepare the way for post-Day evaluation, refection and follow-up.
    14. Develop plans and arrangements in support of 2001 Car-Free Challenge Awards -- including ferreting out sponsors willing to contribute prizes and other forms of support and recognition.
    15. Lay the base for ECFD 2002.

  • 19 Feb. - 18 April (Task schedule to follow)

  • 19 April 2001: Earth Car Free Day (and on 22 April 2001, Earth Day)

  • Follow-up and 2002 Planning
    • May 2001: A running critique and evaluation of the overall Earth Car Free Day experience and its many parts will be conducted and reported on the site.
    • June 2001: We anticipate that various groups and sub-sets of collaborating members will get together to make specific recommendations and calls for action to a very large range of organizations and institutions. Among these may be proposals and ideas for Earth Car Free Day 2002.

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    Your Eventual Inputs, Contributions & Offers

    As you have by now abundantly read, this is an open team project. If it succeeds it will be because responsible people like you are ready to pitch in and help us do not only a good job, but a much better job. And here is how you can get that process off to a good start:
    • Review the content of this site carefully to determine how it might be useful to you, and vice versa (and we would note that , if got right, it usually works in both directions).
    • If you like what you see, sign on as partners and collaborators
    • If you happen to have particular expertise that might lend itself to a ECFD Kit or program area, get in touch with us so that we can examine how this might best be done.
    • As you review these materials keep track of eventual omissions, errors, etc., and let us know.
    • Review the first rounds of kits and projects already on the site, and let us know which if any of them might prove worth looking at in the context of your community.
    • We think this site and program should be capable of bridging language barriers. Can you help us translate all or some portion of the site into the language which is most used in your country or region?

    ECFD-Postmaster@ecoplan.org

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    Coordinators

    This is an international team project involving a very large number of participating groups and individual partners, and international allies. All are of equal value and importance to the success of our planetary volunteer partnership, with the most important of course being those who are actually participating in their own local projects and events. The lead in this project was initially taken by two groups who are serving as co-ordinators:

    Co-ordinator for the Earth Day Network
    Earth Day Network
    811 First Avenue, Suite 454
    Seattle, WA 98104 USA
    Phone: +1.206.876.2012
    Fax: +1.206.876.2015
    Contact: Sierra E. James
    Co-ordinator for The Commons
    The Commons
    EcoPlan International
    8/10, rue Joseph Bara
    75006 Paris France
    Voicemail/Fax: +33 (1) 5301 2896
    Videoconference: +33 (1) 4441 6340
    Contact: Eric Britton

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