IDEAS FOR HOW TO HELP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BECOME MORE FULLY MODERN AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND NATURAL-RESOURCES-CONSERVING THROUGH A FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE NATIONWIDE CONVERSION TO THE METRIC SYSTEM:

----Write to your congressman or U.S. Senator and urge him or her to sponsor legislation that will help to accelerate the process for nationwide conversion to the metric system throughout the United States.


---Urge the United States Congress and President of the United States to sponsor and help finance a study on the expected economic and environmental and societal benefits to American society and to Americans from full and comprehensive nationwide conversion to the metric system.

---Send a letter of thanks to the city or county in your state where conversion to the metric system has been pursued or achieved the most extensively, or, at the very least, where promotion of conversion to the metric system has been the strongest.

---Help sponsor a public-service announcement on your local radio station or on television that calls listeners' and viewers' attention to the many advantages to be accrued from full conversion to the metric system in your city, county, state, and nation.

---Urge your school board to offer an annual award to the teacher in your school district who has contributed the most successfully toward helping to educate youths on the metric system and why learning the metric system is invaluable to their own and American society's future.

---Help co-sponsor an essay-writing contest in your city or county or state in which schoolchildren and high school students are each invited to submit an essay describing why they believe that conversion to the metric system will be a major boon to this entire country.

---Join or establish a non-profit civic group that seeks to promote nationwide conversion to the metric system as soon as possible.

--Ask bakers in your city or town to offer for sale packages of 10 rolls, rather than 12, as a way of helping to promote a full and comprehensive conversion toward a metric mindset in your city or town.

---Refrain from using the term "baker's dozen" and instead refer to a "baker's ten."

---Ask Subway Sandwiches restaurants to drop the term "foot-long" in referring to the size of their longer sandwiches, and to instead label those sandwiches in terms of centimeters or meters.

---Help to sponsor or hold educational workshops that call young persons and others' attention to the historical fact that encourages participants to study the following online webpage by a federal agency in 1997:

https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pml/wmd/metric/1136a.pdf

That webpage from a U.S. Government agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, begins by stating:

"The United States is now the only industrialized country in the world that does not use the metric system as its predominant system of measurement.

"Most Americans think that our involvement with metric measurement is relatively new. In fact, the United States has been increasing its use of metric units for many years, and the pace has accelerated in the past three decades. In the early 1800's, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (the government’s surveying and map-making agency) used meter and kilogram standards brought from France. In 1866, Congress authorized the use of the metric system in this country and supplied each state with a set of standard metric weights and measures.

"In 1875, the United States solidified its commitment to the development of the internationally recognized metric system by becoming one of the original seventeen signatory nations to the Treaty of the Meter...."

The address and contact information for the official sponsor of above-cited blog is: Office of Weights and Measures/Metric Program National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2000 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2000 Phone:(301) 975-3690 FAX: (301-948-1416 Email: metric_prg@nist.gov URL: http://www.nist.gov/metric
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to be continued