If you aren’t yet hip to the Eat the View campaign, you should be. A non-partisan attempt to get the next president (whoever they shall be) to install an edible landscape on the White House lawn (not to be confused with the WHO Farm, another similar, also wonderful, campaign), Eat the View enjoyed a stint at the #1 spot at On Day One, a website designed to compile and rank citizen’s ideas for the next president.
Since then, Eat the View has got its own website and created a number of great videos to support the campaign. And recently, they also started selling parcels of the White House lawn on eBay. Don’t worry — “buyers” agree to donate the parcels back to the American people, and “[p]roceeds from the symbolic sale go to help real people in the US and abroad to achieve greater food security through gardening.” Read more here.
And to check out more ETV videos, check out their YouTube channel.
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1 Roger // Sep 30, 2008 at 8:09 pm
It’s Roger from “Eat the View!” here. Thanks for the post. Just a couple small corrections. eBay has since taken down our sale of the White House lawn. They’re not big on symbolism, apparently. We are still “selling” it, though, on our site. Also, we’re still in the number one slot at OnDayOne.org as the “most popular” and “most discussed” proposal for the next president. And do check out our friends at TheWhoFarm.org. There’s a good chance that their art bus is coming to a farm or farmer’s market near you.
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