I recently posted a message about the “Run Daren Run” initiative where Kalamazoo resident, Daren Wendall, will be running 100 marathons in 100 days to raise $100,000 for his and his wife’s Active Water initiative. In letting colleagues know about Daren’s initiative, one my colleagues replied back to let me know one of her friends did something similar. That initiative is called “Run for One Planet“.
Run for One Planet “is an ongoing run endeavour focused on ‘Inspiring Environmental Action, One Step at a Time'” [ the “one step at a time” part of their tag line is similar to the Pick’n Run’s tag line: “cleaning the world one run at a time” ]. Matt Hill and Steph Tait started the “Run for One Planet” initiative in 2008 when they ran across Canada and around the perimeter of America. They ran a total of 11,000 miles in over 420 marathons as a duo.
Their vision is to motivate 1 million people to take to 1 new action that will help the environment. These 1 million actions can be in the form of 10 different environmental-helping actions:
- Eat Local and Organic
- Turn Off Your Car
- Eliminate Plastic Bags – Bring Your Own Bag
- Use Green Cleaners
- Turn Off the Lights
- Turn Off the Tap
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Compost
- Bring Your Own Bottle
- Teach Your Children Well
Source: from the Run for One Planet web site
It is great to see this initiative, as well as Daren’s!!
