New Years, new partners in Green!

www.TheSuperGreenPages.com announces a new partnership with www.Gogreenexpo.com. Along with a host of great green companies, TheSuperGreenPages will promote GoGreenExpo.com, a marketing company that is stepping up for climate change! A little about Gogreenexpo:
Go Green Expo, the brainchild of Bradford Rand and his team at Expo International, was conceived after a viewing of the film "An Inconvenient Truth." It prompted the question, "How can we make a difference?" This question resonated with Rand and his team and Go Green Expo was born. Rand, a producer of over 700 trade shows and job fairs over the last 14 years knew he could step up to this important challenge.
A truly unique event from the ground up, Go Green Expo will change not only the public's perception of environmentalism but also how events like this are produced and managed. Inviting companies large and small to showcase what they are doing to reduce their respective carbon footprint, consumers will have hands on experiences with "eco-friendly" alternatives to current everyday products and services.
The inaugural Go Green Expo took place in New York City in April of 2008 with 250+ exhibits, 50+ speakers, and eco-film festival & nearly 10,000 participating.
Go Green Expo invites both consumers & business owners to learn more about what is readily available so they can take steps to purchase earth friendly products & services to make our communities greener, one city at a time.

New Expos in 2009 will take place in New York, LA, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
go here to check them out: http://gogreenexpo.com/

The New Year approaching...

Well friends... The new year is approaching and after all the festivities and ringing the new year in, we start our resolutions. Why not start those resolutions now? For many of us, the new year will bring a new President, new administration, new habits to break, new weight loss to achieve, and new goals to pursue. But why not start now? If you read this blog, then you have interest in going green and/or at least what I think about it. Well, I think it's time to think green now! That may mean many different things to many different people. Green for me, means, making sustainable choices for me and my family, being active in my community, and greening my finances. I look for ways to improve my life and my community now, so my new years resolutions won't be so hard to achieve.
I recycle more than ever, exercise and walk more, by green affordable products and network with people who want to make a difference for our planet! You can also make an effort to change your habits and ways now to a greener life. Start with a list, and work on it throughout the year, but start now. People tend to believe one person can't make a difference, but anytime we seek to improve ourselves, we improve the world. If you aren't sure where to start check out some of theses books at http://ecolibris.blogspot.com/2008/12/green-collar-holiday-gift-guide-for.html.

Want to be active in your community, check out www.greenforall.org.

Want to buy green products or support green businesses, check out www.thesupergreenpags.com.

Want to know more on a global scale, check out www.wecansolveit.org.

Happy Holidays to all, Happy New Year!

Onegreenmama

TIME TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

This week, people of all classes, colors and faiths stood together to elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States. No matter which candidate you supported, today we can be proud that voters chose a man of such uncommon decency to lead our nation. 5 Million 'Green Jobs' Will Jumpstart EconomyAt Green For All, we are especially excited that Obama has said building a low-carbon, clean-energy economy will be his top priority once he gets to the White House. He has pledged to create 5 million green jobs.

This massive effort to retrofit and repower America has great potential to jumpstart the economy, to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and to restore America's standing in the world.
We support this commitment - passionately. It's time for a Green New Deal.

Obama's Opponents Already Gearing UpBut the truth is: delivering on this promise won't be easy. Already the guardians of the status quo are gearing up to block progress.
CNN reported yesterday that ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp. are forecasting doom and gloom for America's economy and high energy prices, under Obama's administration. And the Heritage Foundation just released a report calling green jobs "phantom jobs" and arguing that tackling the climate crisis will result in a net loss of work opportunities for America.
Fortunately, many other, more credible reports show just the opposite - including a recent one entitled Green Recovery, from PERI and the Center for American Progress.

Supporting President ObamaThe new administration can fashion a Green New Deal to help the people and the planet. But Obama will succeed only if he gets strong support from national, grassroots organizations like ours. We want to make sure that Americans can hear the champions of green growth over all the noise from the polluters.
At Green For All, we will continue to put forth concrete proposals to spur green growth. We will continue to call for economic progress and ecological sanity. And we will continue to connect the people who most need work, to the work that most needs to get done.
And as soon as the nation is done celebrating, I will be reaching out to you, seeking your support as we continue to build a movement that can deliver on the promise of a green economic renaissance for the United States of America.

Van JonesPresident and Founder, Green For AllAuthor of The New York Times bestseller: The Green Collar Economy

Color of change

Climate change, the energy crisis, and the lack of opportunity in many Black communities are serious problems that might seem disconnected. In reality, they're not. The Green Jobs movement, pioneered in large part by Van Jones (one of ColorOfChange.org's co-founders), calls for a shared solution to these problems. Van has written an amazing new book that connects the dots between the two crises we face: our failing economy and the devastated environment--and lays out a visionary solution for both. And it speaks to a way of getting our economy back on track, from the bottom up. The Green Collar Economy comes out today, October 7th -- we're inviting you to get your own copy (and for your friends or family as well) from Amazon at a discount! We're hoping that the book will sell a lot of copies in the first few days which could help it make the bestsellers list-- increasing exposure for the plan and creating a platform for Van and others to speak about the solution. You can be one of the first to get a copy, here: http://colorofchange.org/greencollareconomy/?id=2301-646941&v=1