ROWBOAT is dedicating 50% of their proceeds to People and the Planet. AND the first 10 people to purchase the award winning card game will get a free copy of our first short video about people healing in the presence of whales!*
Creating the vision and concept for People and the Planet, and identifying stories about people healing in the presence of the natural world has been fun. Let’s get real. For me~ figuring out how to raise the funds necessary to get a three person crew to the Dominican Republic in February to tell our first story about a woman healing people in the presence of whales is a game.
So when I was sitting there trying to figure out how to ride the wave of the holiday/purchasing season….I started looking for a product that represented the core values of People and the Planet~ which is connection.
So imagine my excitement when my friend Julie told me about her friend David Schiller, who invents games, and had created a game called ROWBOAT, an ocean themed mind bending card game (ages 13+)!
Now here is the great part~ when I first started sharing this news with friends, they would said, “Game?? Like video game?” HA! No~ it’s an old fashioned shuffle-the-deck and-hand-out the cards game!
So I did a little more digging, and David shared that he and his friends were always inventing games, but once they created this one, they couldn’t stop playing it. (Sounds fun to me says the girl who skipped class in high school to play spades). Don’t you want to know why the game has a nature theme? (so did I!) David’s answer: “We’re nature enthusiasts~ our best ideas were centered around our love of being outside. I mean, everyone likes a good hike (everyone we know anyway).”
So, I couldn’t be more thrilled to be sharing this super fun game with you that will create opportunities to share 1:1 time connecting with people, AND help support People and the Planet. Of course if you are wanting to make a larger charitable contribution through our fiscal sponsor, The Baum Foundation, we could really use your support to achieve our 60K goal be January 15th. Want to more info? Learn more about People and the Planet.
P.S. * The first ten people who purchase the cards will receive a copy of the first story upon completion (eta March 2011).
P.P.S. You may notice that the packaging of this product isn’t exactly green. The founders of the company are working on a greenr design for their next game~ (yay).
