Environmental projects, community events & personal commitments.
Project creators launch their ideas and create goals that determine the success of the project. Participants join in, accomplish goals, and earn rewards.
It can be big or small, serious or playful. Get inspired, tap the drum, start a rhythm, and the results will come.
Welcome!
earthbongo is a project sharing website that can help you make the world better. Join others on simple projects that build towards big missions to change the world. You can even create your own projects for others to join.
Invite friends to work with you in the real world — wherever they are, whenever they want. When you’re done, earthbongo will collect everyone's comments, photos, and actions, and if you'd like, even measure your successes.
Whether your focus is energy, education, social justice, local food, or the arts, everyone has something to contribute on earthbongo. We believe in the power of community to make our world a better place to live and work, and we know from experience that even small actions can add up to make a big difference.
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Maybe it wasn't as earth-shattering as
e = mc2
...but like Einstein's Theory of Relativity,
earthbongo also started with an equation.
One day, sitting in his car as he waited for the Ballard drawbridge to close, Barry noticed just about everyone idling their engines. Sure, each person was only idling just for that short 5 minute wait...
But here's where that equation kicked in:
30 cars
x
2 sides of the bridge
x
5 minutes of idling
=
5 hours of idling
That's right — 5 hours of idling.
It can be difficult to see that our individual actions make a measurable impact. But what if there were a web site where everyone could see that individual actions really do matter?
What would people do with a site like that? Would it be enough to make the world a better place?
The cool thing is that while many projects on a site like that can be about the environment, they don't all have to be. Other projects can be about whatever a person or an organization wants to share with others:
- art projects suggested by an arts & nature organization
- science projects promoted by a science center
- even projects in social justice shared by a Quaker group
Either way, people can work together, have fun, inspire each other, use social media to promote and share what they're doing, and add up all the results.
Sharing Barry’s vision, friends in London, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle jumped aboard and together they created earthbongo, a social network with a purpose.
They worked out of cafes for a while, drinking all sorts of great Seattle coffee to keep them going. They chatted over iChat, bravely defying huge, gaping timezones. Finally, they rented a lovely little office above a Thai food restaurant. The rest is history.
Now it's your turn. Take earthbongo and make it your own. We hope you’ll feel inspired to take action and improve the world with friends, family, neighbors — and maybe even with strangers. We think you'll find that you really can create the world you want, one project at time.
