WEDNESDAY 29th SEPTEMBER – Lismore- Teeth Teeth, going once, going twice, going three times. Drilled for the tall english sounding man on the blue bike

Chilling out and preparing for the symposium on Thursday while Chris continued his dental assessment tour! Also looked into how we could shift things around Bike the Earth and the stress we are noticing is affecting us working together, especially around using our personal finances to fund the work we are doing. We had hoped to already have sponsors and supporters joining us and getting behind us & sharing the personal effort we are putting into Bike the Earth through more financial support.

We have realised that what we really wanted was a sense of community and being part of a larger movement. We realised to meet our budgeted costs what was needed, could be met by a smaller number of people, businesses or groups sponsoring us for a larger monthly amount, but what we now see will be more empowering for us and others and inline with our mission is a larger group / community contributing a smaller amount each per month. This compliments those for who it has been and those who will aid us along the way with accommodation, food, services, products, training & assistance.

We see this as metaphorical expresses of how each of “our actions do make a difference” (Desmond Tutu). Like our collective contribution to the problem it is our choice to each redirect at least some energy away from contributing to this to facilitating a new way fo relating to the planet that will really make something possible. It also for us provides us with the psychological, emotional and energetic support that we desire that will be the wind at our backs. It gives us the sense of belonging too, being supported and encouraged by a community! It also expresses what is needed to create the metaphoric world wide Mexican Wave we are creating in the lead up to the UN Earth Summit in Rio in Dec 2012. We know that although it will be us and others riding around the planet it will actually be the people, communities & initiative standing up to be counted and staying standing with resolve and commitment to hold our leaders to account and have them represent us with the question “What did you do once you knew?” Drew Dellinger

So we are now seeking people to join our team for 3000 people donating (less than ½ a coffee) $1 or more a month for 3 years. . If you are inspired to contribute more this would be ace. $1 will contribute to a coffee. $5 per month will buy us both a coffee, $10 will buy one of us a lunch, $20 will buy 2 of us our lunch, $50 will cover 1 of our daily expenses, $100 both of a day's expenses. For those that can contribute $100 per month you will be invited to join us in Brazil in December 2012 to stand with us and some key invited guests in person when we present ourselves to the policy makers.

Our host Gemma & a friend Tamsin have offered to be on our team remotely helping us to connect with media and to help create this as a relay style position with others being able to step in to the role at future times. As have Paul (Gemma's fiance) & Tony offered to be our video editing team! Now its just creating this within what their commitments are and what we need. Thanks heaps Gemma, Tamsin, Paul & Tony!

They are joining our growing team which includes Tathra our coach. If you feel inspired to be part of our team and can offer time & or a service remotely pro-bono in a similar way, especially if you see that there is something that you know how to do and can see that we would be assisted with it. Some areas we have identified that could really lift what we are capable of achieving are - website design & development, marketing & promotion, logistics & planning, some other riders (South East Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, Europe, America & South America), specific country coordinators & a translator(s) in non English speaking countries. Roland