Hi everybody my name is Armela and I`m from Albania.I joined this group because I want to help my country to be developed but in a healthy way.I live in the capital city of Albania called Tirana.I want to help my city to have a better enviroment Because nowdays is very crowded and polluted.I`ll write you soon to see more about this group.Happy New year 2009 to you all

I wish you the Best

Well I have been a member for a week or more and I haven't introduced myself. My name is Joy I'm from MS. and I hope to make friends here and make a difference.

I'm not sure if I have introduced myself since I just received something asking me to introduce myself LOL! I am in the midst of a project, so I thought my silly bio could let everyone know whatever they want to about me I am grateful to be a part of this lovely group and our quest for peace!


Bio


Chase (Lesley) Barton has always believed it was one's sacred duty to use their strengths, as well as, their adversities to try and make some small positive difference in the world. This driving belief came from the immense love and great respect she has for her heroic late father, Arthur Barton, and the desire to follow his legacy.


An Activist and former Political Consultant for Congressmen and Campaigns, Chase (Lesley) Barton created A United Journey For Humanity which is a positive empowered international community within the MySpace community.


A United Journey For Humanity was conceived in late December 2007 as her own personal way to create awareness, show appreciation, recognize, and honor the love, compassion, and humanity that still gloriously exists and flourishes.


In only a few short months the all volunteer international community has become a united front of over 5,500 members and has a skyrocketing devoted readership from inside and outside the MySpace realm. A United Journey For Humanity runs three bi-weekly human interest series, "My Heroes, Our Heroes, Humanity's Heroes," "The Gifted Artists You Should Know," and "Creative Innovators Advocating A Global Difference,” and it’s only the beginning. As of June 2008, Chase has begun to fill-in as guest host for Greg Norman on his syndicated talk radio show, "Dare To Dream" (www.universal7radio.com/Home.php).


In late Summer 2008, Chase is launching our A United Journey For Humanity's main online international community/human interest magazine website (www.humanityunite.com) with an abundance of more series, features, and interviews along with a broadcast radio show, in order to shine an even brighter light on the positive impacts the community members and features are making with their extraordinary actions and creative gifts for the betterment of humanity and the world each and every day.


A United Journey For Humanity’s motto is:

“If united we dare to envision it there is no reason that united we cannot achieve it!”


Chase (Lesley) Barton is also a sexual assault survivor who tries to help bring other survivors out of the shadows of shame and blame by writing an op-ed that was featured in the Chicago Tribune last year, as well as, openly speaking out in interviews in the Chicago Tribune and People Magazine's Heroes Among Us series in March 2006 Oscars Edition (www.voicesandfaces.org/article_people.asp) as a Survivor Participant in The Voices And Faces Project, founded by Anne Ream. Chase was recently asked by revered internationally acclaimed poet, celebrity consultant, international satellite radio personality, and magnanimous philanthropist Bryant McGill to be an U.S. Ambassador and Co-Lead Global Contact for The Goodwill Treaty For World Peace (www.goodwilltreaty.org) in which he authored. In only a few short months, The Goodwill Treaty For World Peace has been signed by thousands across the globe which includes Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Don Cheadle, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Charles Barkley, Montel Williams, Bibi McGill, George Noory, Paul Gardiner, and preeminent Cancer Researcher Dr. Gregory Cotter among so many others. Chase was also recently interviewed by the Italian Oprah, Judyth Piazza, for her cutting edge radio show "The American Perspective" (www.thesop.org/article.php?id=10083)where she passionately speaks of these endeavors more in depth.


For nine years, Chase (Lesley) Barton had multiple surgeries, fighting her way out of extreme chronic pain, to recover the full use of her legs due to a back injury. The last three of those nine years Chase lovingly cared and tended to her outstanding father in-home hospice up until his passing in May of 2006. Following her father’s death, after a long hard fight and numerous specialists insisting it could not be done in December 2006, Chase had her final four back surgeries which after much painstaking rehabilitation has given her the ability to not only be mobile without the necessity of a cane or wheelchair and be pain free, but to participate in athletics and have the ability to joyously dance, once again. Chase expresses daily that if humanity follows their heart, is proactive, and never gives up, they can and will accomplish anything.

If you are new to the group, I hope you will introduce yourself and let us know about your interests in peace, social justice, and ecological sustainability

Hi my name is Rick I have joined this group because i now want to believe I can make a change. My prior philosophy was " Grant me the stubbornness to change what I can, the laziness to accept what I cannot, and enough beer to sit around and endlessly discuss the difference between the two." Even in jest I do have the stubbornness indicated above. LOL... yes Iw as allergic to Polyster when it came out had a bad feeling and to al the other pollution in the world. What bothers me is that we drive on Michelin and Dunlop around the world and the stream and rivers of India are polluted from this. Yet I cant build a million dollar development of three homes in San Diego because of the storm water issue. Great concept this storm water criteria in America ...so what if some poor Indian villager has cancer flowing in her stream and a child in China is losing hair from a cement plant. I am on my way to starting my PHD with the International economic trade and consulting arena in mind to inform Governments how to do conduct themselves self righteously instead of bowing down to corporate power. My arena is Persia the silk road and England and the US controversy in that arena since 1835.
Now I rule with peace !

I've just joined Care2 and Oikos. My name is Jim, aka chemrat (though someone else has already claimed that name here, so I am chemrat1). I write a number of environmental blogs, blogs on fiction, and one on playing guitar, and I publish some photographs at various sites like Flickr and Gather.com, the latter being just a small and carefully chosen sample of the huge and uneven collection on Flickr. There is discussion of human rights, environmental rights, energy policy, food prices, and civil rights on my environmental and fiction blogs. I also engage in discussions of these topics at gather.com and on other people's blogs and websites.

My main blogs are Chemistry for a sustainable world and Nearly nothing but novels.

One of the topics that appears extensively at my environmental blogs is the behavior of the Bush administration with regard to the environment- a truly appalling record. Actions of that administration in other arenas are even worse, of course.
In amongst articles on new technologies, like new solar panels and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles, my blogs have stories about human rights abuses in China, Tibet, and Burma/Myanmar, and the suppression of free speech in Cuba (along with the exile of Cuban writers). In the fiction blogs you will find reviews of books that describe the cultural revolution and the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet. There is an interview with a Chinese author, Qiu Xiaolong, now living in the US, who grew up in the Cultural Revolution and who has through fiction provided a complex and detailed picture of the evolution of Chinese society since the 1960s.

My secondary websites include:
My articles at Gather.com
Sustainability
Solar Power
Guitar for kids and adults (lessons, music and gear)
Best wishes and peace, Jim

Hello everyone. Mark, thank you for the invite. I look forward to corresponding with members who are like minded in interests of global sustainability and building solid foundations that forge alliances in the creation of our next society. 

There are many issues surrounding our troubled economy, yet our International Leaders persist to lead us blindly with false hopes on rebuilding wealthy nations. It is dedicated peoples like us  assisting in healing communities of multidiverse cultures, under-developed countries and proud to act on creating the next society with sustainable measures.

Kind Regards,

Jeff

Welcome to the list, Jill, as well as to many of the newcomers! I agree with you especially there are a lot of the Americans working faithfully and hard for many years. The rising inflations have gone beyond out of control ridiculously.

Hi! I am an environmental educator, field researcher, writer and nature photographer. I have an environmental site. I am glad you invited me.
I have been neglecting my web site because I have been busy promoting my petition dealing with healthcare. It is just as horrid and frustrating as environmental issues.
I just got my petition listed on the main page of the petition site for now. I have to spend the next several days keeping signatures coming or they will demote it to the bottom of the list where it was.
If anyone is interested it is
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-congress-from-stealing-your-home
It is about state and federal government taking homes from the elderly and disabled for needing government assistance with $75,000 nursing home and home health care. Losing their homes, property, Trust Funds, etc. is their punishment for not making $100,000 in their retirement. This law overrides your Will! You cannot leave your family ANYTHING!!! It affects almost all Americans at one point or other.
If you can help and sign it and pass it on to everyone you know, I'd appreciate it!!!!
Sorry about the Soap Box. It really gets me mad!!!
Thanks!!

Thanks for inviting me Mark. Im new to care2 and I am excited about helping my fellow man/animal/planet. Im looking forward to more discussions.

By way of an introduction - I'm a Londoner who now lives in Australia, and I'm not sure how you tracked me down to invite me to join the group, but I'm glad that you did because it suits many of my interests very well... 

Hi, I'm Diane Black, and I am delighted to become a part of this group. Being from Canada also, I am with Ruth on trying to stop C51. I've submitted news and encourage all to check the link: http://www.care2.com/news/member/162150490/738053 Also, Annie's Healthy Living has news spots there too. Stopping C51 is a global concern. What can happen north of the 49th parallel can certainly happen south and spread from there. I am an activist for human rights. I believe that we are one people on one rock. We should cherish each other for our differences and not condemn each other because of them. I am also a green witch. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Cheers!

I need help right now. Canada is reading Bill C51 through parliament which, if passed will lead towards Codex Ailementarius compliance and the outlawing of natural medicine.

What if anything is this group doing on this issue? Any advice for a course of action? Thank you.

Hi everyone - thanks for the invitation Mark - I don't know you, so I don't know how you found me to invite me, but I'm glad that you did.  I'm hoping to go back to school for a Masters in Public Administration in a year or two so that I can work in a non-profit or NGO, but right now I'm just trying to find a job.

This looks a like a place with a great mission.

Thank you very much for the invite. I am Canadian living in France. Here showing my support, love care2.com and the daily CLICK TO DONATE. Really happy that I found care2 it is very rewarding to spend time doing something for the good of this planet. Cheers!

Thanks so much for the invite! I look forward to getting to know everyone here and making at least a small dent in the betterment of our society as a whole.

Hello, I am Vivian.

I am new to this group. Thought I would a contribute a link that you may already know. But just in case you don't, its a fun way to help feed the world

Here is the link : http://www.freerice.com/

It's always a great pleasure to connect with like minded people for an exchange of diverse viewpoints.

Thanks Mark for the invite.

Hi everyone Im James, and I look forward to meeting other activists who support the same causes I do, as learn as learning with them.

Was surprised to receive your message, yet, thank you, Mark, for inviting me and I hope to have some spare time, as I've not yet read the posts on this message board. I shall look forward to be in touch with the views of this group as well as to learn more about some issues.

Hi folks,
My name is Cristina Foung. I work for a soon to launch network of niche product research/review sites called Huddler.com. Our first "Huddle" focuses on green products and covers a variety of categories ranging from solar water heaters to electric cars to LED light bulbs.
The mission of the Huddle is to get the word out about green products and sustainable lifestyles! We’ve integrated discussion forums, wikis, product reviews, user "Product Profiles", and many other features into one very usable site.
If you’re interested in checking it out or becoming a user, go to:http://greenhome.huddler.com/

Besides working at Huddler, I also blog on Cleantechblog.com! I'm excited to be in the Oikos community!

Thank you from Elizabeth H living in a SW surburb of Chicago. This looks a serious goal oriented group. I am honored.

I do not know exactly what joining this group will mean, but I got an invitation and it seems like a good group. My name is Signe and I am an eigtheen year old girl living in Sweden. I tried to go to high school a while, but it didn't work out too well, so I like... ...Didn't. Instead I got commited to a psychiatric clinic in June and I was released in September. Since then I have practised at a hostel a while and now I am unemployed, trying to get job or practise in childcare. Like kindergarten teacher or something like that I mean, yeah, anyway, I am very concerned for animals and children, I have three kitties, one snake and I am about to sponsor a child, but I have not yet gotten any information about the child I will be sponsoring. Anyway, the child would get 30 % of my current income, as I just have student's welfare, but I was thinking of getting a job, so I will see how that goes. My interests are computers, clothes, art, music and whatnot.

good day all,

my name is paddyboy,i also go by the name prodgical son.

andfor good reasons,for i have "awakened",and what a world we have out there,much to do,little time,a lot of work,but i do this whole heartedly,for it is time to take action,i am glad a place like this exists.to join like minded individuals in pursuit of a better way to exist.now is the time to take action

and i thank you all for making this possible

Hi Everyone,

I'm Glenda from Australia.Thankyou for the invite. I look forward to hearing everyones different points of views on many different subjects.

Glenda

Thank you for the invite. I am french and not able to understand everything but I like your topic and I will read and at least spread informations .

Hi,

It's great to meet new people with similar interests.

Remember Groucho?

"I wouldn't want be member a member of any group that would have me as a member?"

Here I am.

I'm a river preservationist. My group Les amis de la riviere Kipawa recently lost a judicial review concerning navigability of the Laniel water control dam should any of you be interested in learning about that. It also has to do with the Environmental Assessment process in Canada. I've written and presented papers on this subject.

see: www.kipawariver.ca

concerning myself:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/kayaky/Peter.htm

thanks

Hi there!

Hope to learn to live green and meet people who want to change the world, as I do.

I am very excited to join this group.  Thank You for inviting me to join this group.

Thanks Mark. I appreciate the invitation to participate in this group.I'm involved mostly in political change / awareness. I support animal/wildlife conservation/land conservation/Eco-building / small footprint living.Do not support Iraq War but do support our military troops especially their care and life after serving this country. I support peace and the need to understand we are all connected and have to do better in our stewardship of this planet.I will be reading posts and getting involved where I can. Thanks and Hi to All. Lloyd

THANKS FOR THE INVITE MARK MAY GOD BLESS YOU

Hi. I'm Brae. Much thanx for the invitation! It's great to meet new people with similar interests. =)

My life changed on the 7th july 2005 when my wonderful stepdaughter Helen was killed in the London Bombs. I had always known she was special in so many ways but gathering the views of her friends and colleagues to put into a memorial book I began to see the scope of that young woman's vision, compassion, love and support to so many people round the world. It was a moment that changed the whole course of my life.

I have dedicated whatever years are left to me to attempt to complete some of the work she started in trying to forge understanding, toleration, concord and peace amougst people of differing races, cultures, religions, aspirations and so forth...you get the picture. It is a vaste undertaking but one I am determined to try and persue...part of my reason for being here on Care2 is to further that cause.

A purpose gives each day its shape and course. It is the reason I still draw breath rather than wistfully wanting to join Helen in the great twighlight of the worlds.

Peace is the only thing worth fighting for and the only battle that can be won.

I have my own group but it is growing slowly.  I read every welcome msg and I am impressed. 

 I am here to learn, share and grow.  I hope that many of us will be more active than just 'clicking to save'.  Change is difficult and we can help others in that process as we do it ourselves.  As a group we can change the world if we learn what they will listen to and follow.  Mostly we need to be an example and listen to their replies/needs/concerns.

I am learning.  I see a lot of active members and nice folks of all ages.

Steve

Hi, I am Em, newer on here, this is my first post in this group. I am a vegetarian also, love animals. I have a petition on here to help stop abuses towards women and children in the Bahamas, I am a victim. You can come view it at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/boycott-the-bahamas

The Bahamas according to the United Nations report is the rape capital of the world at this time and has been for awhile. There were only 30 rapists in prison in 2005. I am trying to speak up to help protect our citizens, Americans make up 85% of the tourism there, also speaking up to other country citizens that do go there. Tourists are the last on the list for the police to investigate, they left the rapists at the hotel after I reported - with other tourists. Please come view and sign if you like. Thank you all and nice to meet you.

for the Invitation..

Hi my name is Cheryl, and I'm an environmental and animal welfare junkie..

I come from one of the fastest growing areas in Australia, Hervey Bay, across from the World Heritage listed Fraser Island..which creates the dilemma of Tourism versus the Environment, it is difficult to manage economic growth and development and also protect our natural assets..I'm sure I will enjoy the ideas and discussions put forward by this group..

Hi everybody I'm Grace. I'm an activist for a lot of things - animals, human rights, the environment...whatever is dear to my heart. 

P.S. I see there are a few people here who are new to care2 - if you haven't discovered it already, there is a "Click to Donate" section on the far right of the page where you can click to donate for free to causes such such as reducing global warming, saving the rainforest & endagered species and sponsoring children in need.

Thanks for the invite and I look forward to getting to know you all.

Hi I am Milo i want to thank Mark for the invite and hoe some good comes from this group

This the time for  the nations to come together as one to bring peace and love in this crazy world.and i hope we are going to make things right. thanks.

I'm Crystal... been a member for about a couple weeks now but haven't introduced myself yet- so, my apologies.. hehe..

Thanks for the invite- looks like a wonderful group with a great cause.

Mark, thank you for the invitation to this group, I will endeavour to be active in discusions.

Theo                   

I'm Radonda.  Thanks, Mark, for the invite.  I am very impressed with the goals/premise of this group.  I hope to participate in the discussions here.  However,  I am on Care2 sporadically as I never seem to find time for just sitting at the PC, so if I'm lurking I apologize.  I look forward to learning from everyone's wisdom. Thanks again for the invite and for the foresight to start such a great group. 

Radonda

Hi, Mark, thanks for the invitation into the group. My name is Anabelle from Caracas,Venezuela. Learning is always welcome so will keep in touch.

Regards, Anabelle

I greet all!  Mark, thanks for the invitation into the group, I desire success to each and entire best, Pavel.

Hi I am Pamela Sue.  I am honored to be part of the group.

Thank You,

Pamela Sue Mayer

hiii :]

I'm madeleine

im a student in high school in Australia
so yea,lol

everyone speaks with big words. :S i feel alone. lol i probably won't be doing much posting more reading and such.

Hello Everyone,

My name is Cornelia.  I look forward to learning, sharing, and growing with you.  Thanks for the invitation.

Hi there!  I am Elizabeth!

Thank you for inviting me into your "home."  I am very excited to receive information about all of the topics of interest to Oikos.  With the upcoming election I will enjoy becoming more educated on the policies that will effect my voting process.

Hi, my name is Stuart.

Thank you, Mark, for encouraging me to join this group.

I very much want to try to create more peace and human harmony in our world and I like to be among others who would like to try to do the same.

Please introduce yourselves.