Congratulations to copystar_wwo, winner of the first Carboneer Award - by virtue of having coined the term carboneer, of course. Excellent work. Copystar, email me (my name here @ gmail.com) with your mailing address if you want a hard copy of your One-Ton Carbon Offset ! (I think it comes with a cool sticker or bumper sticker too.) Otherwise, I'll email you a virtual copy.

So what's next for the rest of us Carboneers?

Here's your next challenge. It's called Whatever Without Oil.

It's really simple. Do whatever -- anything, really -- in a way that consumes less oil.

My Band Rehearsal Without Oil.

World of Warcraft Without Oil.

Cleaning the House Without Oil.

Shoe Shopping Without Oil.

Surfing Without Oil.

My Dog Without Oil.

You get the idea.

The sillier, or weirder, or more offbeat, or just plain different, the better.

If this works, hopefully we'll get a whole A - Z list of doing things without oil. (So, yes, we need an X-something Without Oil and a Z-something Without Oil!) Yes, that's the goal. The A - Z of Living Without Oil. So what can YOU add to it?

Need an example? How about Renting DVDs Without Oil? Last week I cancelled my Netflix account. Just didn't make sense to me anymore in terms of carbon impact. Those discs get flown movies hundreds of miles, instead of me walking five blocks to a DVD/video store. Well I'd rather use my human power to walk the movie than fuel to drive/fly it. So for my  Whatever Without Oil story, I'm going to film my next trip to the store and see if I can find other folks like me who cancelled their DVD-by-mail subscriptions for environmental reasons.

Go ahead and submit your story the usual way. Just be sure to tag it "mission" and "whateverwithoutoil" so we can find it. And really show us your whatever: photos, maps, drawings, charts, videos. Anything that lets us really see it.

Go Carboneers Go!

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