Recently Re-Inspired/ A Personal, Written Thought.

On Monday evening as I was driving down to visit my mom, on the stretch of I-71, I had another one of my great ideas.

Truthfully, I was sort of losing faith in GreenifyNow. It has been up and running for about a month and a half. From my count, there have been about 1200 visitors, which isn't bad, but it isn't great either. The thing that hurts is, out of all my 1900 MySpace friends only about a quarter of the visits came through there. I was kinda counting on MySpace for helping establish a foothold for GreenifyNow, but there have only been two donations from there, despite about half of my friends asking me what they can do to help. Enough of that, to the good stuff.

The stretch of I-71 between Columbus and Cincinnati consists of about 100 miles of farmland and woods, on both sides of the road. I have always looked at it as the most boring drive that a person could make. On Monday evening though, I saw it as an opportunity. In my research of who I need to talk to in order to plant trees along the Federal Interstates and the State Highways, I was beginning to feel like I was repeatedly running my forehead into a brick wall. Hence the opportunity.

There is a strech of about 60 miles between the two cities that is nothing but huge farms that butts right up against the federal property of the Interstate. All that GreenifyNow would need to do is convince the farm owners to let us give them trees, and we will plant them on that border line. It should be easy. If you look hard enough you can see where some of them have attempted to do it themselves but ran out of either time, money, trees or hope. Most likely they just ran out of trees and time.

If you were a farmer with 10 miles of property line bordering the interstate and someone came knocking on your door asking if you would like them to plant blue spruce trees every twenty feet along that border... What would you say? Tell me by hitting the comments link below.

I know I would say yes, I would say hell yes!

There is about 60 miles where there is nothing but farmland bordering the interstate on both sides=120 linear miles to possibly plant=633600 linear feet to plant/a tree every 20 feet=31680 possible trees to plant! That is a healthy start!

Think... How many miles of Interstate in the United States are like that? Not to mention how many miles a we wasting our tax dollars on building huge concrete sound barriers, when it could be planting beautiful trees? Please leave your comments by clicking the link below, about what you think of the idea, and then make a donation to make this possible.

Thank you for everything,
Ryan Rodgers