Do You Dream in Green?

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light." ~ Woodrow Wilson

What is green living? Is it living off the grid? Living in a green house? Working at a green job? What exactly does it mean to be green?

At its essence, a sustainable lifestyle, or living green, refers to a lifestyle and set of choices that minimizes a person's environmental impact. While living green embraces sustainability concepts of efficiency, organics, waste management, and so forth, the mindset is more important than the eco actions. Why? Because life is dynamic. As expressed in our eco friendly training, applying sustainability concepts one way today may not be the sustainable solution of tomorrow. Your life circumstances change so it's in your approach to life that matters.

The bigger the dream, the more you aspire to become. Are there areas of a sustainable lifestyle that you've dreamed about exploring?

Explore healthier living.
Improve your quality of life and work life balance.
Reconnect with your local community.
Build your career with eco awareness.
Become an educated and conscious consumer.

Imagine for a moment your personal accounts of the thrill of doing something you have always wanted to do. The personal reward and accompanying excitement is lasting and inspires you to more. Living your very own green dream can be a thrilling adventure.

Discover what can be recycled and what cannot! Can you recycle paint? Hair? Crayons? Find out here. Better yet, discover recycling centers near your home by visiting Earth911.
Discover the rewarding sensation of volunteering in your community. Not sure where to start? Visit VolunteerMatch and enter your zip code and area of interest to find a perfect volunteer match.
Discover cycling as part of a sustainable lifestyle and as a rewarding personal adventure. Explore health, environmental, and cost saving reasons for biking to work and pick out your favorite resources to help you do it.
Discover ways to decorate the eco friendly way with eco friendly materials, paints, and plants.
Discover ways to green your routine. Pick a different day of the week to take eco action on different sustainability concepts. The thrill is in changing habits on a daily basis. Need ideas? Visit here.

Through our daily living, we are presented with opportunities to expand our eco awareness and make informed choices. If you have dreams of living green, now is the time to take action. As you live your green dream, it inspires others to live theirs.

Comments for Do You Dream in Green?

Friday, June 4, 2010 by lauu:: Employee Assistance - Balancing work and life Flexibility is extremely important and valued by an employee more than anything. If flexibility and empathy are given to the employee by the employer - then stress related absence could be reduced for a start. The employee will give more. There are many resources for a sustainable working practice. This includes elements of occupational health, counselling, financial and careers advice and also FLEXIBILITY. People work too much - I believe as employers, employees and self-employed, we all can all try harder to find balance between work and life. Time for YOU.I believe that 21hours could be the basic working week as opposed to the massive 40hours (or a lot more). It is too much and cannot be sustained for a lifetime. People are not machines. The Future of Work The moral basis for 21hours a week is upon the idea (I believe) that if living standards are improved (for example - time for leisure, health, good food, family etc.) that people will get by with less money. There may be some middle way between the existing system and an imposed 21 hour working week. Germany would entertain this idea at least as their culture is very family orientated (for instance - they do not open their shops on a Sunday so people who work in the retail sector do not have to work on this day). Here in Britain, on the other hand, this would never wash. We work the most hours in Europe. People live to work and I think this attitude can be traced back to, what Max Weber called 'The Protestant work ethic'. This label is more relevant to the times in which this sociologist deemed it a phenomenon of industrial society (19th Century). But the idea of a 'work ethic' or a moral obligation to work oneself into the ground (in effect) with excessive hours of gainful employment dominates the culture of work. I work around 20hours a week and earn enough to get by. I like to have time to think. I have always been told that 'time to think' is a dangerous thing. I think this goes hand in hand with the notion that 'the devil makes work for idle hands'.