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Thrive On Green has the purpose to encourage on a large scale to take steps towards greener living by providing resources, information and support. Green lifestyle choices touches all areas of the human experience, from the kitchen spoon to the scientific laboratory, how we care for our children to growing our food and from our workplace to our meditation. To Thrive On Green is a way to live, give and enterprise that is caring and good for people, planet and, yes, profit, “green profit” that is!
Maybe for some “living green” is a marketing ploy or filled with challenges and thriving on green sheer impossible. No wonder, considering how much abuse the word “green” has received in recent times. As a matter of fact, once the word “green” entered the business world and started to become common, it has often been used to increase revenue in spite of those green practices causing harmful effects instead of employing state fo the art green methods. We all heard the term “green washing” – everyone suddenly used the word green in their advertising.
Wherever you stand in this discussion, what is proclaimed “green” today is sometimes as wasteful, polluting, energy inefficient or at a scale that seems to be opposite to its original meaning.
And there is, on the other hand, the same amount of incredibly successful and awe inspiring projects, enterprises, social innovations and research that adds many dimensions and understandings to what “green” means and how to realize it. This site is based on the beliefe that a truly green world, in the sense of social, financial and ecological sustainability, is not only possible, but can form the basis of a highly thriving, enriching and connected culture in tune, as a part, of the earth’s ecosystems.
Do you think all this is a pie in the sky? Well, I can’t really answer that for you. If you have any interest, I’ll invite you to follow this site as a source of material, information, tools, examples and much more that will become available to see for yourself. For me it is a most fascinating, exciting and thrilling venture to take all the human creativity and ingenuity and sheer joyous gumption to dare envision and live in a way that is infused by the passion to create a world that provides for our needs and supports a thriving, “green” humanity.
One of the most powerful forces in our world today is economy. This is one of many topics we will talk about together and look at “green” ways. The one thing I wanted to bring to your attention here is that, yes, this site will promote products and services and at the same time I do urge you to make a powerful statement with every act of choosing. This power you have is as a matter of fact so powerful that it can literally change the world very quickly – of course for the better – or in my words – for the greener! This power you have is how you choose to use your money, your wallet, what you decide to purchase, when, where and how much. Please, do use your power on this site as well. I rather support you to take steps towards greener living than having you buy anything from this site or from any other place. So, please, please – purchase very consciously what increases your quality of life, what fulfills your needs satisfactory, what is supporting a green economy! Part of a green world consist, in my view, also of giving – freely, with no strings attached. This will become part of the spirit in which these pages are made available to you. There is much more to this vision, which I will share at another time.
Just by looking at the many different topics that will be covered on these pages alone, it seems inevitable and I have experienced in my own life, that it can become overwhelming to even start or continue on ones journey of sustainable, green living without direct personal support.
I find it so important to be both stepping on a personal journey of growth as well to actualize a thriving, green way of living, that I am offering coaching for support. What is going on around us can be incredibly challenging. What is going on in our own lives can make the road become bumpy. If you ever see the need for a one-on-one conversation for clarification, finding your own direction, wanting to explore the steps you want to take towards a live that is in tune with yourself and the world around you, check out if a coaching session would be of any help. I do understand the experience of both the alienation and the elation one can experience, when realizing what an individual or people and communities can inflict on this earth and each other, just by living our lives. And, sometimes this is beyond the practical aspects of living a thriving, green life. Is there a point to live in a perfectly green outer world and feel gray inside? In my world, both need to go hand in hand, a “green” world inside and outside, otherwise it does not make sense at all.
I do hope this gives you a first glimpse into what I am attempting with this site: pouring my passion into something I believe deeply in, be of service, heal and repair damage, develop new concepts for truly greening our human way of living and use the power of our economic systems to make positive change happen for all of us!
