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WhiteRoofs Campaign setup
By Ian Montanjees
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Community,
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NZ $115 pledged
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Pledges will only be confirmed if the target is reached by: 29/04/2012 at 12:30 PM (NZST)
Make a PledgeWhite Roofs Campaign Setup
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The Campaign
I
launched the White Roofs Project back in Nov 2010, and now for the next stage am
putting together an 18 month campaign promoting white roofs to businesses, the
public, councils and government. Stage
1. Crowd-funding the Setting-up via PledgeMe. Stage
2. If the target is reached, then I can go full time on 10 weeks Setting Up, directly
approaching businesses for support of the 18 months campaign. Stage
3. If enough businesses are interested by the end of Setting Up, then their
offers can be accepted and the actual 18 month campaign begins!
For a good article on the project in the IPENZ magazine, see here.
http://whiteroofs.org.nz/White_Roofs_IPENZ_Engineering_Insight.pdf
Resene Paint is offering a generous 30% discount to those painting white in response to the project, email [email protected]
Solar paddle wheel as one of the thank-you "Rewards"
A solar paddle wheel demonstrates how black surfaces absorb sunlight and get warm while white surfaces reflect sunlight and remain cooler. When you place it in sunlight (or torchlight) the wheel spins, because the paddles have one side painted black and the other white, and as the black side absorbs sunlight it gets warm, and the air molecules next to it increase air pressure which propels it forwards in the partial vacuum inside the glass surround. Ian will import these to match the PledgeMe demand. You can read up on it on Wikipedia by searching "Crookes Radiometer".
Website: http://whiteroofs.org.nz/
Latest newsletter: http://whiteroofs.org.nz/Newsletter_Feb_2012.pdf
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