Teal Party PR?

Took the opportunity to catch up on my friends’ list and saw the lwood post sequence about rating oil compananies and the like. I was pleased by the requests to be on a TP mailing list (is that a bad acronym? It does relate to recycling ). However Lorrie’s comment that posting on various venues gets the word out farther makes sense. This sparked some conversation between me and grendel_todd…ideas sparking…danger…danger. Well, actually, he asked me what the Teal Party _was_…

Ian– I see– you’ve started another organization…

Me– No, no…it’s more of a movement, really.

Ian– We could put up Teal-Party pages on the various family websites. Hmm (checking the web), all the hits I get are for party supplies. “Teal Party”.net, com, and org are all available. We could have a separate website.

Me– Er. Yes. We could. (although I can’t help thinking this should wait until I’ve caught up filling the websites I already have). Ordering teal colored paper plates would be ecologically unsound (unless they’re made from recycled paper). But there are a lot of ways to get the idea into circulation. Remember how wearing those rubber bracelets for charity became a fad?

Ian–You want to make up Teal Party bracelets?

Me–No, though I was thinking of a ribbon for Baycon. And all the discussion of the San Francisco anti-plastic bag initiative got me thinking. If we made up some iron-on transfers of the Valknut surrounded by the recycle symbol (Lorrie, can you post that one here?), people could iron them on to their cloth grocery bags. Greyhaven has a large collection, some bought from stores that sold them, others are freebie SF con book bags, or free gifts for donating to environmental organizations, and some were made by various people from pieces of old clothing. Most have at least one blank side to which to attach the logo. Then, all we would need is a way to explain the logo to non-pagan people who ask about it at the grocery store.

I think I would say– “Well, it’s a mythological reference. That triangle thing is a symbol of the god Odin, who is fated to fight the destructive giants, who are like the unbalanced powers of Nature, at Ragnarok. If we fight Global Warming, maybe we can keep things in balance and put the end of our world off until its destined time.”

Anyway, the “Teal Party” seems to be a catchy idea. If we spread it around, accompanied by information bytes and little nudges in the right direction, maybe it will add to that gradually movement of particles that could eventually become an avalanche of activism. Individual actions add up.

Thought for the day– recycle that pair of worn-out jeans into a grocery bag. And who would like an iron-on patch and does anyone have a suggestion for how to create said patches that will survive washing?