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Most of us receive offers for limited edition products.  Sometimes we even get really excited about them! They’re usually special and always scarce - hence the limited-edition. We cannot get an edition more limited than Earth - if ruined, it would be really tough to restore.

Unlike most types of art, we cannot make reproductions of this original (as far as I know). It’s also rather impossible to purchase and bring home.
The one thing we all can do - and in fact we do this every day - is add our personal signature. How we sign it depends on how we treat it. Do we treat it like the fine art it should be? How would you treat a prized Picasso or Renoir if you could bring one home? When you think about it, earth is quite a magical thing that’s easy to take for granted. How much are you willing to pay to preserve your art - last time I checked, even getting a simple picture frame was rarely less than $10 http://pictureframes.com. Imagine the cost to frame the  earth, if we even could. As the earth has a diameter of 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers), the frame would need to roughly 31,705.64 miles (51,025.28 kilometers) of material - and that’s without a nice beveled mat! I realize this may be a silly comparison because one does not usually live on a piece of art (or do you?). But the fact remains that earth is a limited edition - there’s only one. We should do what we can to take care of it - and restore it so future generations have the chance to enjoy all that it provides. Sign it gently and enjoy!

If you’ve not done so, please join the Million Faces Project - it’s easy!

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Fighting global warming can be a daunting task. This morning, we’re launching the Million Faces Project  as a positive step forward. When you look at the magnitude of the issue - and how difficult it is for one person to make even a tiny ding in the problem, it’s easy to become discouraged, throw up one’s hands and focus elsewhere. While it’s true not ONE person can make a difference, no matter how hard they try, a lot of people each doing just a little can make a difference. And that’s the purpose of Thinkfrog.org and the Million Faces Project. it’s about the power of many doing a little. It’s about focus and hope. 

Thinkfrog.org was born out of the frustration of not being able to make that tiny ding alone - and looking for ways to do so. Thinking that a lot of people may feel the same, we looked for the easiest, least demanding way for busy people everywhere to contribute. All you need to do is donate $10 and submit your favorite self portrait. When 1,000,000 people do just that, we can start to make a big, tangible difference.

What we’re doing with the donations is buying rainforest lands in South America to protect from development. You’ll be able to see the forest areas we purchase right here on this sight as we’ll be tracking them through Google Maps. In working with Cool Earth, an organization devoted to this cause, there will be local monitors ensuring the forests we buy are protected. We selected rainforests because they’re one of nine critical tipping points towards irreversible climate change.

Scientist say we have only 10 years before we reach the tipping point on global warming. That’s not much time to make big changes so we need to act now.

Why not just give money? Because it’s more fun to build a community of people who care - and be able to show governments and politicians that individuals really do care and want them to as well. Everyone that joins us and submits their picture will be included on this site. This may well be the single largest collection of faces in one place on the web. We also hope to mount a companion exhibit of all of the faces that will travel around the country as well.

So please join us - think about the impact you can have with just $10 and a great picture of yourself - pretty much three Grande Lattes for those who enjoy their caffeine (like myself). Get your friends to do the same - it’ll be a scrapbook of people everywhere and put many faces on the fight against global warming.

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