And The Winner Is ... NOTA?

Many thanks to all who submitted ideas for a new name for the OVEC newsletter. At our staff retreat, we reviewed all the submissions, and the winner is: None Of The Above.

None of names suggested quite clicked. Most focused on our current campaign to end mountaintop removal/valley fill strip mining. We wanted a name that reflected our past victories, as well as one that would still be relevant after mountaintop removal is finally banned. A name that would make people want to pick up our newsletter.

So, we brainstormed during the retreat, coming up with a whole new batch of names that werent quite right. Most were silly, some were OK, some were terrible.

Staff-generated names that were rejected included: Bambis Journal; Mad as Hell; Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers; Bambis Revenge; Save Whats Left; Oh, No Not Them Again; The Bleeding Heart; Aint Skeert; TreeHuggers Herald-Gazette, etc.

Given the list above, we hope youll agree with us that Winds of Change is a decent new name.

We think this title reflects what OVECians have always worked for (no matter what the campaign) highly attainable positive social and environmental change.