Welcome to the Green Team!
James Ray International is going green, and we're looking for your help! While we're formulating our greenplan, send us some of your favorite green tips. Simply visit our Help Desk and let us know! We're looking forward to harmonizing our relationship with the environment and the world at large. After all, relationships are the key to Harmonic Wealth®. |
This is an awesome idea! I hope this will become a place people will log on to find new ways to help heal the planet. I am sure you agree that true harmonic living begins with being in harmony with the Earth.
Here is one of my favorites: Use vinegar for cleaning. Since there are no known pathogens that can live in vinegar, it does a great job as a kitchen and bath cleaner, leaves stainless appliances fingerprint-less.
We use it for a rinse on all our animals (including the horses) and find it very soothing for irritated, itchy skin.
And, it's a wonderful nontoxic way to remove weeds.
Tracie
I am happy to share information about a company that has been in existence for 22 years that is dedicated to being in "harmony" with the environment as well as "total wellness".
The company not only provides top quality, non-toxic, safe products for the environment and personal use, but also focuses on enhancing the physical, personal, and financial wellness of everyone involved.
Please respond by e-mail to inquire about more specific information as I am rather limited to discuss all of the benefits and natural solutions in this post.
In Harmony,
Sheila
information@wedeliverwellness.com
The role that organizations such as yours play in the public awareness of the importance of our relationship with nature and our responsibilities towards our environment is undoubtedly great. I congratulate you on your decision to ‘go green’.
I am not qualified to give you practical tips; however, would like to share with you a quote from a document I came across a few days ago. ( “Conservation and Sustainable Development” statement of the Baha’i International Community). I hope you will find it interesting, if not helpful.
“We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.”11
Best regards.
Ladan
After watching Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio's movies, we decided that we need to have an alliance of business owneres who cater to the "green" movement. This (gogreenwithjogreen)web site will be an answer for people to find out locally what they can do in their own homes and businesses. (It will be up and running sometime in November.)
In the meantime we enjoy sharing products from Shaklee, the first certified climate neutral company in the world. We have changed our lightbulbs, started a composte, unplug chargers when not in use, stopped using paper towels for spills, use recycled products, and are hosting an event in conjunction with America Recycles Day on November 16, 2007. I have many resources in the South Jersey area and we are looking to expand for anyone who wants to join our team.
Annie Duffy
Thanks for adding this great idea to an already powerful model for living.
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Thanks for joining the solution!
Maria Calidonna
What a wonderful idea to go green to get into harmony with the environment and the Earth! Since all are One and interconnected, helping the Earth and environment, heals all Spirit.
I don't have any MLM's to push or Network Marketing products to promote here, which is not what I think this space was intended for. Instead, I'll offer some real tips that JRI can implement in going green which is what I think you may be looking for here.
I also will, as you requested, go to the Help Desk at http://support.jamesray.com/
to leave my suggestions since I believe that is where you want them to go.
Suggestions (if you aren't doing so already):
- Use 100% recycled paper for all printed JRI handout materials at events.
- Work with publishers for James' books who print on recycled paper.
- Offer a subscribed to "JRI Green Team" newsletter which site visitors can opt into. This newsletter can offer "green tips" and keep readers informed of special environmental holidays and events like the America Recycles Day, Earth Day, World Water Day and more.
- Incorporate "green power" exercises into each event. Weave in growth opportunities that contribute to the benefit of the immediate environment (event venue) as well to the expansion and growth of the participants. For example, challenge participants to create a plan that they will implement during the course of the event to positively impact the environment where the event is being held. Creativity can be rewarded.
-Offer contests on the JRI site to visitors and JRI alumni to come up with creative and powerful ways to impact and heal the environment.
-Sell recycled cotton JRI t-shirts where a significant portion of the proceeds goes to benefit the environment and environmental research groups.
-Offer special "Green Sales & Promotions" for JRI books and products where a good portion of the sales go to benefit environmental groups and the environment.
-Offer "JRI Green Tool Kits" for sale at events and online for the purpose of setting up local "Heal the Environment" teams. Of course, JRI recycled cotton t-shirts would be included so the teams will proudly show off their affiliation with JRI, gaining wonderful publicity for JRI.
-For cleaning around the office and at events, Tracie suggested using Vinegar. Another and less odorous solution is to use Hydrogen Peroxide. It disinfects,cleans dirt, removes stains and breaks down completely into harmless Hydrogen and Oxygen. I don't know if it de-greases however. It also doubles as a first-aid solution.
I'll send you my bill in the morning! ;-) [just kidding!]
In Gratitude and Appreciation,
Amy
I got so excited when I read about the green team I had to go and sit in my garden, my garden by the way is fully organic, grown on the recycled waste from my composting toilet, I am typing this on my laptop that runs on solar power, sitting in my self built cabin in the Australian bush.
I see sustainable energy sources and water conservation as the two main isues.
Water Conservation.
Toilets waste so much water. There are many great waterless composting toilet sytems on the market that you could incorporate into your home/offices. You can use the resulting humus for your rooftop garden or tree nursery. There is a group called www.naturalevent.com.au who supply composting toilets for events and festivals.
Recycling your greywater, from bathroom sinks etc using weed ponds and granite/sand filtering systems. Hey this will save you money as well as saving water! Rainwater tanks will save water from going into stormwater drains, it could at least be used first!
Energy.
Solar and small local hydro or wind power systems are the best current technologies developed to a mass market stage. www.rpc.com.au is the url of the rainbow power company one of the first of many companies selling and developing alternative energy technologies in Australia though I am sure you have many such companies in the USA that are doing the same.
Plant trees, donate trees to schools and councils, create parks, visit Findhorne community in Northern scotland and speak with Dorothy Maclean while she is still here.
Lobby your Government and local councils to provide subsidies to assist and encourage people/businesses to use alternative power systems and conserve water. In australia our govermnment gives rebates to home owners who install solar power systems, these systems then feed any excess power back into the grid system. Local councils give rebates to homeowners who install rainwater tanks, and also give out free enrgy efficient lightbulbs and water saving shower heads.
Good on you James
cheers,
in community,
Paris
Thank you for riding the wave...I am immersed in the incorporation of protecting ecosystem services in business operating strategies.
I recommend contracting a full ecosystem services review for JRI in order to understand more fully what you're currently doing to benefit ecosystem value(s) and how much degradation or impact JRI has on ecosystem services. I believe that JRI needs a systematic approach for understanding the risks and opportunities that arise from ecosystem degradation and for clarifying a "business case" for taking progressive action.
For example, what is your contribution and exposure to ecosystem service degradation? What are the resulting business risks and opportunities? What is the sustainability of your supply chain and the impacts of the production of those goods and services on biodiversity? What policies, practices and procedures does JRI already have in place which address these issues?
1. Assess your impacts and dependence on ecosystem services.
2. Explore and pursue new business opportunities.
3. Reduce impacts (avoid, minimize, mitigate and offset)and scale up solutions (build alliances).
Look to the World Resources Institute for leadership on this issue.
Stacey H. Stovall
Kalispel Tribe
I have a few suggestions based on belgian laws :-)
In this country, we have to recycle EVERYTHING :-). We have three trash cans with:
1) blue trash bags : plastic bottles and metal cans
2) box: paper
3) green bags: food...and so forth
Each bag is recycled by a different company.
We also have to recycle batteries. It's not a choice but the law! We have to bring the batteries to a company that specialize in recycling them.
We also have "dumping areas" that has several containers where you can bring "greens" like trees,bushes, grass, and so forth. They have another container for any types of oil, a container for appliances...and so forth.
Glass bottles can not be dumped in trash cans. You will find many containers throughout every cities where you can dump your glass bottles or jars.
What else? Our company is setting up a plan to offer bus services to all employees. Although most of us drive Diesel cars already, the company is planning to offer a down payment to all employees choosing to buy an hybrid car.
We also have at the office a trash can for bottle caps. The caps are recycled by a private company. I am not sure how much they pay for each kilo of caps but, the money goes to a non profit association that trains dogs for blind people.
By recycling paper, we save I don't know how many trees each year. Also, for each tree cut down, another tree is planted. We are of course encouraged to print less in order to save paper, thus saving trees.
Some use solar pannels to save energy. However, our company has decided to purchase a wind turbine.
We also have our own water recycling station, and some of our experts verify the water in the nearby river every 3 hours to make sure the water is clean, safe, and has enough oxygen for the fish. When there is a lack of oxygen, the fire department gets involved right away and add new water to the river.
Voilà! Have a beautiful day!
Nathalie
My name is Shaun, I live in Phoenix. I use "GREEN" professionally everyday. I work in Constuction Management and build environmentally concsious buildings for school districts and commercial. Examples include;
-Waterless Urinals(Saves over 40,000gallons of water yearly)
-Recycled materials(over 80% of construction debri is recycled)
-Reused materials
-Low VOC content in materials(paints,caulking,etc.)
-Local/Regionally manufactured/harvested materials(within a 500 mile radious)
-Enviromentally safe cleaning products
-Educational programs for kids upon construction completion
These are a few things I do everyday and lately it seems this great trend is being used in every aspect of life, I love it. GO GREEN!
Other than our local permaculture network, and Al Gore on purchasing carbon credits, my biggest "green" teacher is HGTV's "Living With Ed" (Begley). I think it's still on Sunday nights. Have fun!
Christine
I'd like to offer a practical idea, I live in Australia and our family for the past year have taken a bucket into our shower with us to catch water that would normally just run down the drain as we wash. When we're finished we take the water out to our pot plants or garden. This is easy and a great way to get the kids into understanding how important water is.
We are currently under very high water restrictions where our goal is to only use only 140 lires per day per person. This means our showers are limited to no more than 4 minutes (yes we do time them..lol). As well as no outside watering with hoses at all, along with a host of other measures to help us keep under our limit.
But thanks to being able to catch the water from our showers we still have a beautiful garden and plants to nurture our spirits.
Please wherever you live, appreciate and take care of this most wonderful gift.
One thing that our company (an entrepreneurial training company) has done is to completely do away with ALL CD, DVD and video tape and workbook products. Every educational product we offer is now offered only as an MP3 download, or a video download. At large live seminars, we don't distribute workbooks or materials. Since our audiences are mostly high level executives (CEOs, COOs, CFOs, etc.), we received a suprising response when we explained why we weren't providing printed materials any more at our programs: they not only were 100% on board with the environmental reasons, but also said they considered executive programs "sophmoric" if printed materials were provided. As one said: "Look, we're smart enough to write down what we think is important and we don't need some workbook or manual. It's about time someone finally 'got' this." So, not only have we done something that is good for the environment but, as it turns out, something that is more in line with what our customers preferred all along! Funny how things work out when you do the right thing for the environment!
Vicki