Everyone is a stakeholder in conservation...
The Conservation Counts! Campaign is an inspiring and innovative initiative that embodies an overall educational awareness program on Conservation. In a spirit similar to the hugely successful "Give a Hoot - Don't Pollute" and "Got Milk" campaigns, it focuses on the 6 + areas of conservation: Water, Waste, Energy, Earth, Building Green, Business and Community. This concept is entitled WEB2 and was originally inspired by Chief Seattle's quote regarding the Web of Life:
"We do not weave the web of life; we are but a strand in
the web of life; what we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
- Chief Seattle 1786 - 1886
What we do individually, corporately and within the community makes a difference.
COTTON PLANT GALLERY
Art,
History, Culture and Education
Although industrial and commercial development is absolutely necessary
for jobs in revival, the cultural needs are also crucial. What's
a body to do on a Saturday night? How will tourism effect on a town's
growth, security, and sustainability? Cotton Plant has recently
been awarded full Arts Library through the Conservation Counts!
Campaign. Donated by Los Angeles philanthropist Z. Clark Branson
the library features over a thousand videotapes and DVD's, including
the work of many noted directors and great classics of the various
film genre, plus many lesser-known films of merit. Films will be
shown as double geatures at a local location. The Library also contains
a variety of art objects. emphasizing the contemporary, but also
including antiques, oils, watercolors, fine prints, ceramics, and
photographs, all displaying fascinating impagery and representing
a variety of cultures, including African-American and Asian. Finally,
the library contains books: a large broad liberal arts collection,
including sociology, history, general literature and the arts. Of
particular note is an extensive collection of story telling and
folklore.
The first headquarters in Cotton Plant Arkansas will be open in late winter or early spring of 2007. As they enter, visitors will recieve information about how they can make a difference through Conservation.
Conservation Counts! Campaign is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Post Office Box 419
Cotton Plant, Arkansas 72036
Phone: (870) 880-0109
info@conservationcounts.org
Endorsements:
Pearlie S. Reed, Arkansan, Chief (Retired), USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Debbie Moreland, President, Arkansas Association of Conservation
Districts
Nadine L. Scott, President, California Association of Resource
Conservation Districts
Barry Mahler, President Association of Texas Water, Soil
and Conservation Districts
William "Skip" Cowell, President, Hawaii Association
of Conservation Districts
Diane Miller, Director of global operations, The International
Education Collaborative Foundation