Saturday, December 15, 2007
"Mom, you used to do what???"
So the other day I posted "Angie's Thoughts", but today I think I'll add "Lovely Laura's Thoughts"- my sister-in-law. She brought up a good point. I was telling her about how my children are going to grow up "Generation Green". And she intuitively said, "Someday our children are going to look back and wonder why we came home from the grocery store or any store with so many nasty plastic bags. It'll be equivalent to wondering why so many of our parents smoked." I truly hope that is the case with so many things that we're doing to our earth right now. We're educated on the negative effects that these bags have on our environment. Let's use this useful tool and decrease the number that go into our landfill. It'd be great if they were obsolete by the time our kiddos were adults! PS I went Christmas shopping last night and took a large purse to hold some of my purchases and refused the nasty bag! Do the same, it'll make you feel good :)
Monday, December 10, 2007
Generation Green
So a few thoughts from Angie's head. This one occurred as I was snowboarding and riding up the chairlift at Keystone Mountain this past weekend. By the way, it snowed there for 3 days straight. I've never seen so much snow at Keystone since I moved here in '99. Love that mountian. Anyway, back to "Angie's Thoughts"... This whole "Green Movement" is so exciting. I'm so happy to be a part of it as well. I see everyone/ everything going green. I'm so thankful. Our earth is so thankful. I'm thinking the next generation should be called "GENERATION GREEN". Something positive for a change. I never really like Gen-X or even Gen-Y...what is that? "Generation Green" is great and I know my kiddos will be a part of it. (T-shirts and onesies coming soon). Thanks so much for reading this! Pass it on.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Paying It 4ward!
Hi there all,
I don't even know if anyone is following this blog but I feel the need to add to it- especially today. So I've always struggled with naming my "grassroots project" MothersLoveYourEarth.org. I really wanted just "Love Your Earth". I trademarked just "Love Your Earth" even though I didn't have the website. Unfortunately the website was taken. I just thought someday I would make enough money to hopefully buy it from the rightful owner. I pondered this quite a bit and in the meantime snatched up all the website domain names I could think of that would associate to "Love Your Earth". I felt like "Mothers" was too specific (which it was). I want everyone to feel a part of this movement to decrease the use of nasty plastic bags.
So about 10 days ago, I got enough courage to call the rightful owner. The website was owned, but not in use at this time. I figured it was worth a shot to see how much I may have to pay for it. I thought positive thoughts all day. Believe it or not, the owner was an angel. Raoul Bhatt transferred the website to me today! I told him what my goal is and he too had environmental ideas for the website. Unfortunately he's too busy with other areas in his life (http://www.firetext.tv/). So now I feel it's even more of my mission to succeed. Raoul has demonstrated the epitome of "Pay It 4Ward". Hats off to you. You don't even know how far this good deed will travel. I can't wait to Pay It 4Ward to someone unsuspecting and have them hopefully do the same. Raoul, you're a saint in my book. I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. Even the customer service guy at GoDaddy.com thought it was amazingly generous of you! Thank you again!
Love Your Earth,
Angie
Please visit my "new" website www.LoveYourEarth.org Thank you!
I don't even know if anyone is following this blog but I feel the need to add to it- especially today. So I've always struggled with naming my "grassroots project" MothersLoveYourEarth.org. I really wanted just "Love Your Earth". I trademarked just "Love Your Earth" even though I didn't have the website. Unfortunately the website was taken. I just thought someday I would make enough money to hopefully buy it from the rightful owner. I pondered this quite a bit and in the meantime snatched up all the website domain names I could think of that would associate to "Love Your Earth". I felt like "Mothers" was too specific (which it was). I want everyone to feel a part of this movement to decrease the use of nasty plastic bags.
So about 10 days ago, I got enough courage to call the rightful owner. The website was owned, but not in use at this time. I figured it was worth a shot to see how much I may have to pay for it. I thought positive thoughts all day. Believe it or not, the owner was an angel. Raoul Bhatt transferred the website to me today! I told him what my goal is and he too had environmental ideas for the website. Unfortunately he's too busy with other areas in his life (http://www.firetext.tv/). So now I feel it's even more of my mission to succeed. Raoul has demonstrated the epitome of "Pay It 4Ward". Hats off to you. You don't even know how far this good deed will travel. I can't wait to Pay It 4Ward to someone unsuspecting and have them hopefully do the same. Raoul, you're a saint in my book. I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. Even the customer service guy at GoDaddy.com thought it was amazingly generous of you! Thank you again!
Love Your Earth,
Angie
Please visit my "new" website www.LoveYourEarth.org Thank you!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
1% For The Planet
So I thought I would try this "blogging" thing. Seems harmless enough. I wanted to let people know where I was with this whole Love Your Earth TM process.
First of all, many thank yous need to go out. Of course I want to thank my beloved family who has experienced an absent wife/mother for the last few months. I promise you it's all worth it. Thank you to all the ladies (charter members) who came to the Pay It 4ward party. I was sincerely overwhelmed by your support. Thanks of course to Denise Cox who has been my mentor in all of this. Your PR advice has been priceless. If it wasn't for you the idea would still be stuck in my head! Thank you to Shelly Budde for all of her creative ideas and stern advice (especially when I really needed it). Thank you to Brian and Heather of http://www.myshadybaby.com/ for all of their business advice. You guys are awesome. I can't wait to see you succeed with your awesome kiddo umbrellas. I also want to say thank you to http://www.995themountain.com/ (specifically Steve Millin) for playing my requested Pink Floyd, The Who, and Eric Clapton when I was up at 3:30 in the morning putting the bags together. Thank you, thank you!
So where am I right now... Well I'm currently waiting for http://www.youthbiz.org/ to finish printing my 3rd order of bags. Everytime my volume increases. So thankful for that. I have experienced being "out of stock" twice now. No complaints of course. As of Nobember 28th, you have stopped 8,250 plastic bags from going into the landfills. That's awesome. How do I come up with that number??? Well I'll tell you...for every 1 bag sold, I multiply it by 50. I figure you'll use these bags 1x/week for the year at the grocery store. I must say I think the tote takes the place of at least 3 plastic wimpy bags. I might have to increase that number. You have helped to donate over $40 to saving the sea turtles. Currently I'm talking with http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/ to be a part of their wonderful non-profit.
Speaking of non-profit, ultimately that's where I'd like to end up. Right now the legal fees to make that happen just aren't there. So I'm an LLC. I have trademarked "Love Your Earth" and the turtle with North and South America pictured on it. Glad to have that under my belt. Working with the IRS always makes me nervous.
I'll be selling totes at Good Shepard this Saturday (12/1), I'll be working the http://lilaguide.com in January. I have numerous requests to visit grade schools and talk to the kids about the nasty facts of plastic bags. This has taken on a world of its own AND I'm so enjoying the journey. Thanks for reading.
Keep It Green!
Angie
First of all, many thank yous need to go out. Of course I want to thank my beloved family who has experienced an absent wife/mother for the last few months. I promise you it's all worth it. Thank you to all the ladies (charter members) who came to the Pay It 4ward party. I was sincerely overwhelmed by your support. Thanks of course to Denise Cox who has been my mentor in all of this. Your PR advice has been priceless. If it wasn't for you the idea would still be stuck in my head! Thank you to Shelly Budde for all of her creative ideas and stern advice (especially when I really needed it). Thank you to Brian and Heather of http://www.myshadybaby.com/ for all of their business advice. You guys are awesome. I can't wait to see you succeed with your awesome kiddo umbrellas. I also want to say thank you to http://www.995themountain.com/ (specifically Steve Millin) for playing my requested Pink Floyd, The Who, and Eric Clapton when I was up at 3:30 in the morning putting the bags together. Thank you, thank you!
So where am I right now... Well I'm currently waiting for http://www.youthbiz.org/ to finish printing my 3rd order of bags. Everytime my volume increases. So thankful for that. I have experienced being "out of stock" twice now. No complaints of course. As of Nobember 28th, you have stopped 8,250 plastic bags from going into the landfills. That's awesome. How do I come up with that number??? Well I'll tell you...for every 1 bag sold, I multiply it by 50. I figure you'll use these bags 1x/week for the year at the grocery store. I must say I think the tote takes the place of at least 3 plastic wimpy bags. I might have to increase that number. You have helped to donate over $40 to saving the sea turtles. Currently I'm talking with http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/ to be a part of their wonderful non-profit.
Speaking of non-profit, ultimately that's where I'd like to end up. Right now the legal fees to make that happen just aren't there. So I'm an LLC. I have trademarked "Love Your Earth" and the turtle with North and South America pictured on it. Glad to have that under my belt. Working with the IRS always makes me nervous.
I'll be selling totes at Good Shepard this Saturday (12/1), I'll be working the http://lilaguide.com in January. I have numerous requests to visit grade schools and talk to the kids about the nasty facts of plastic bags. This has taken on a world of its own AND I'm so enjoying the journey. Thanks for reading.
Keep It Green!
Angie
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
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