Hello Folks!

I'm a mean-green-vegan-machine.  jk....I'm not really mean, but I practice a vegan lifestyle.  I have found being vegan is quite a challange as it affects every aspect of my life.  For instance...what kind of fertalizer was used in the soy beans grown for the tofu I buy?  After researching this I've found that even organic farms use animal by-products for fertalizers.  To me, this is scarey and dishonest. 

Well, enough for now.  I will enjoy this group.

Ahimsa!

Donna

Hello Everyone!!! I am a new member, so i thought i'd come in and introduce myself. I am genuinely interested in making the Earth greener and finding more environmentally friendly ways to love and care for Mother Nature and her living creatures. My family and i are in Australia, right in the middle of winter here. Thank you for having me in your beautiful group!!!

Bright Blessings to you all!!!

Hi Neil, and the rest

I would like to comment on your post about Al Gore. I think it is a good thing that he made this Wake-Up-Call movie, but I also think that there is a danger in it's approach.

As it is in the nature of humans, we all react on things we see, hear, feel, expierence etc. This reaction can be different for every-one. After seeing the movie from Al Gore there is a reaction.... One could start to live a better life and take action. One could think that it is too late anyway, and get into an egoistic living material mindset. One could be indifferent, and think neitherway, and just live their life like they did.

Have you seen the movie "The Secret" ??  According to the secret WE create our environment, energy attracts like-energy. Energy flows where thoughts go. When you think "I don't want this to happen" -murpheys law-  It will happen! Fear is the worst and also one of the most powerfull energies in the universe. Combine this knowledge with the movie of Al Gore... -spreading the fear-  What is it that WE create???

But luckily it works as well with "I want this to happen" and it will happen. The key to this is LOVE and GRADITUDE. This energy is the best and absolute most powerfull energy in the whole universe. And with positive love-gratitude-thinking we can create the best life ever imagined for All of us. Starting with turning around the message that is brought in negative thoughts and speaking, into positive thinking and action. I truly believe if we combine our thoughts into what WE really want, we can create it!

So please be care-full on how you show this movie of Al Gore to other people.

Best, namasté  to all

Liselot

Thanks Soren for inviting me to this exciting group!

     The windy city, Chicago, could go even greener than it is by fastening solar panels and wind propellers to all of their skyscrapers and other commercial buildings, not to mention on street light poles, signal light poles, and telephone poles, etc.  Also San Francisco.  The propellers would have to be surrounded by some sort of light netting to protect birds from flying into them, and also people should the propellers break off. 

Hello..Thanks for the invite, Soren...

Patti

Hello Everyone,

Soren, thank you for the invitation to join this group.  By being a member of a active group, I think it will make it easier for me to do rather than plan to do! 

Have A Good Weekend,

Sandra

Thanks, Soren, for the invitation.

Global warming: It's a controversial topic, but it shouldn't be. I don't like it when other people push their own agendas, but here goes anyway: I own a copy of Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth". I've been lending it to anyone I can convince to watch it. I don't care what your personal opinion of Al Gore is. Everyone should see this movie. OK, now I'll get down off my soap box!

Save the earth: Sing a song.

Perry Hall (Maryland) Folk Music Night

http://www.perryhallumc.org/FolkMusicNight/

Thank you, Soren, for the invitation. This is my first group on Care2, so I'll just be very quiet and look around to get my bearings. I don'y post much, but I like reading about what actions other members are taking.
I am a retired teacher living in Labrador; I plant trees in my yard and rescue stray dogs and try not to be wasteful of anything - food,clothing, fuel, and so on. I like thrift shops, bookstores and flea markets. I read a lot.

Hello to all! Thank you Soren for inviting me to this group

I’ve been signing petitions for quite awhile now, but this is the first group I’m connected with.. so, I’m still getting acquainted with Care2.

My name is Luis and I live in Portugal.

The future is in our hands.. a warm hug to you all.

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First of all... thanks for inviting me Soren

I hope trough these ways to connect on all levels with lovely people, and this will be a nice beginning. I hope I can be of any service for something you need, or needed to hear at that moment, in your timeframe of evolution. And I hope that , we All together can combine our strenghts to help save this planet we are on. 

Let's support our future by  Paying it Forward Now.

Liselot

Hi everybody. I'm a new member. My name is Camilla. I'm looking forward to learning from this group.

Søren - thanks for the invite.

Just joined!

I'm Alexander from St.Petersburg, Russia It' a great cause and I'm happy to get involved. Many thanks to Soren for the invitation Bye for now

Hello Everyone!

Soren, thank you for the invite.

I'll come to the group but this is just a short hi, in the next week I'll be off because of the house's renovation.

Have a great weekend to all! 

   thanks soren for the invite... im glad to be a part of this group.. let us help one another to make Earth a better and greener place to live in...

Hello all. Blair here. Thanks Soren for the invite!!! =)

Soren P.
 

Thanks for the invite!

Thanks for the invite, Soren. I am looking forward to sailing through the threads.

Peace,

Karen

Soren thanks for the invite, this look nice

and i will invite you to my group and anyone else who wishes to make the planet GREEN join me at http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/green-party

and be in both Groups!

Hi everyone !!  Thanks for the invite Soren. 

Hey Soren and Hello Group! I'm Karrie from America Atlanta Georgia and a little north of that! I'm a fierce rycycler! I recycle as much trash as i can! Even styrofoam! I help my nieghboors with their trash as well!

 I love natural! And when I can I employ the suns light for energy!

(from below) Your butterfly gardens project sounds really great!!

Hey Soren!!

Thanks for inviting me. I am getting ready to participate in the March 11 rally 'Canadians for Kyoto'. I am also part of a community initiative in Toronto where we are looking at community projects for making a greener city. Some of the possibilities are more green top roofs, creating butterfly gardens in every little spare corner of the city, awareness raising in schools, family projects/challenges.

I am thrilled to be here and to recognize a few familiar faces.

dear Soren,

Thankyou so much for the invite to your group.

hi to everyone here and I look forward to getting to know you all

mantra's karma tsering x

Hi,

My name is Mike and I just joined.  I am grateful to be here.  Hope everyone is having a good day.

Michael

Good Morning All.

I has taken me ahwile to get around to reading here.  Thanks for the op to be part of this group.

AJ

Technically I am not new, I joined about a month ago, but I havnt had a chance to really do any looking around yet. So thought I would at least say hello and see whats up. Thanks for having me.

Mike

kia ora koutou katoa-greetings to you all

im a kiwi lady all the way from a green paradise (New Zealand) and Green is how i want to keep it...i like the saying 'think globally, act locally', well spoken...

luv tuupuhi

Hello all,

Thank you soren for inviting me on to this group,I have many ideas (as one which soon I am going to implament).

With enogh will this group as a team will make a huge change to this wourd,I actually don't belive in ways of protest but on actions each of us do by showing people thees actions in a commercial form without expecting profit.

Luck to us all

Daniel Alexander Lowes

The invite made me feel welcomed to this network of outstandingly warm and friendly people.

David

The local gas/oil fired electric plant has been sold twice to companies that plan to upgrade.   Each company makes promises, but the fine print is a new attack on the environment.  Plans that are better for the air but worse for the bay water are unacceptable.  We are watching carefully for the new company to show us their plan.   Companies are covering their failures by trading properties. Vigilance is vital to save our environment. 

Hello from Turkey !

How are you Group ?

I love all to you ...

bye...

Dear Peoples...

Thank you Soren for the invitation.

I am sure I will meet many wonderful people here.

Pat

Some thoughts on gasoline consumption, lemme know what you think:

Mike's Sharebook > Blog: Reduce Emissions Reduce Consumption of Oil  

                           Hello, everyone!

   I am kinda late with that, because I have been a member for some days now! I am Siya ( Sisi in most cases, unless I mess something up ) and come from Bulgaria! I am 19 and will leave for the Netherlands to go to University in late august! Thanks for the invitation, Soren and for creating the group! Love to all!

                                    Peace,

                                         Sisi

Thanks for the invite, Soren.  Let me help in any way I can.

Hi, everyone, it's very nice to be here, thanks Soren for the invite, I really apprecciate it. Hope this messages finds you all well, happy and healthy.

Love,

Mariale

Hi everybody!

Glad to be part of this group.

Please, be patient...I won't be able to contribute for a while because I'm working extra hard on a book

Still, I'll check the discussions now and then and do my best.

M.A.

Hi Soren and Hello Everyone!

I just joined this group! Thank you for your kind invite Soren!

John Huh - Seoul, South Korea

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Have Always wanted to know more about Sustainable living. I own a 113 acre farm in the Thousand Islands. I have been looking into having wind turbines put on the land. With the amount of steady air flow we have here it could power my town plus the neighboring Gananoque with it's casino.

Soren, thank you for inviting me to join this group. I live in the beautiful Earthly paradise of NJ. My town, Linden, is filled with blue collar folk and factories. Yet NJ is aptly named The Garden State. It is very diverse.

Within 1/2 an hour from my home is The Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, created by the Wisconsin Ice Glacier as it carved its way down here in the last Ice Age. The Refuge is strewn with huge glacial boulders, carniverous plants, primeval ferns, and countless wildflowers.

Although it is a very populated and in many places, a defiled state, NJ remains a sacred place on this Earth. I feel profound loyalty and love for this particular place, where I am priveleged to watch the sun rise and set.

The first thing my beautiful state needs is to improve its mass transporation system, increase the number of bicycles, and reduce the number of cars, especially in the center of towns. This is where I would begin efforts toward sustainability.

But how to explain the joys and benefits of this carless idea to people who have never imagined an alternative way to get around? I would like to put a call out to all artists - please create images of carless cities. The media does not provide anchors for this vision. Therefore, artists must rise to the occasion and inspire average peope to reimagine their lives.

I hope to hear from any artists out there.

Thanks for connecting us all, Soren.

Anna

Thank you Soren for sending me the invitation to join the group.

I am Beth from IL.

 Hi all....I'm Sandy from Pa. I just joined today. Thank you Soren for the invite.

My name is Barbara.  I live at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.  Thank you for inviting me, Soren.

Hi everyone!  I'm Ronda from Illinois. 

Thanks for the invitation Soren!  Looks like a good group so far.  Renewable energy, that's great!

Hi soren, Just popping in to say hi. I will try and pop in as often as i can. So Soren thankyou for the invite to this group.

Meredith

Just a quick hello to all... looks like an interesting group! I'm always interested in promoting and learning about ways to green up life. I merely strive to do what I can, mostly recycling at this point and this weekend we're switching our oil consuming furnace for a wood pellet furnace... very excited, if not a little worried (fueled of course by oil-friendly folks - the tech at the stove place was sure it would work in our little house though)... supposed to be cleaner burning and keep wood waste out of landfills AND drive down our reliance on oil.. yippee! Also use natural cleaners for home and embrace my dandelions instead of poisoning the earth... Still have miles to go though...

Hi everyone, I am Beth. I don't know much about sustainable energy, however I am learning quickly. I wa.s so impressed by Tryon Farms in Portland, OR when I visited it and everything they are doing to teach other people about sustainable living. I try to make changes to my own lifestyle as I learn about the things I am doing that are harmful (or even just could be better). I live in a town where there is almost always wind after 12:00pm. Why don't we utilize the windmills for some of our power that I have seen in the desert? I don't know. This is one of the things I plan to look into, learn about and possibly bring to the City Council. At any rate, I am hoping to learn from each of you as well as contribute as much as I can. Thanks again!

B.

This is a wonderful and progressive group that I am proud to become a part of.  You all have wonderful insights and goals.  I also want to make a difference and I am looking forward to learning as much as I can here and definately sharing with others as well.  

Greetings & Salutations to all! Thanks for the invitation Soren. I'm looking forward to being a part of this group, and only hope that I will be able to contribute something meaningful as well.

Thanks for the invitation, Soren! I am deeply interested in the discussions of this group and I will enjoy learning from all of you!

Yvonne

Thanks for the invite! I think this is gonna be a great group! I'm Melisa for those who don't know me yet! Tisk tisk to you all that don't know me yet

I'm gonna soon have my B.S. in Environmental Studies. So I hope I can help out!

Hello everyone.  I'm Erin.  The wonderful Soren invited me here.  Thank you for that. And I can't wait to make a difference.