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​If you start by telling someone a solution, you're going to get nowhere. Instead, start with an "Epiphany Bridge Story". This is a concept developed by Russell Brunson, as a way to connect with your audience rather than repel them.

Visit www.GreenTeamAcademy.com to register for my live webinars on Thursdays during January 2019.

Recently, my mild-mannered teacher friend went on a major rant about "red plastic cups." Listen in to find out why. 

​If you are that kind of person that sees opportunities for improvements, you might feel like the "green sheep" in the family.

​You are going to be frustrated because you don't fit in.

What I want to tell you is... Don't fit in!

The world needs people like you that point out those things that are wrong, those places that we can and should do better.

​But, because often you aren't going to fit in to society as a whole, you do need a place that you do.

That's why it's important to form a Green Team. Sitting in a circle with people that each in their own way are passionate about the planet... that is going to be a profoundly healing experience.

Yes, together you're going to make a big impact in your community.

​But also know that a bunch of "green sheep" in a circle is going to be a place of solace for you, where you will fit in. ​

That's it for today! Watch out for red plastic cups and please share your ideas in the Green Team Cafe! (Get access via the Green Team Essentials.)

Join us for a look at the Green New Deal and what you can do to make it happen, in today's episode with an interview with Marie Venner.

When newly-elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a group of young protesters who showed up in Nancy Pelosi's office, many heard for the first time about a Green New Deal.

The idea has been around for awhile, but it is gaining steam largely in part due to those young protestors with the Sunrise Movement who are pushing Congress to adopt it in the rulemaking for the 2019 session. The youth have a "healthy impatience" urging us to deal with and resolve these issues.

Advocates of a Green New Deal are asking ​people to contact ​their U.S. House Representative this week and on into the end of December and ask them to:

"Commit to establishing a Select Committee for a Green New Deal and reject fossil fuel campaign donations."

The two key pillars of the Green New Deal are:

• Transition to clean fossil-fuel-free economy
• Jobs for everyone who wants them

​Helpful Links:

• Sunrise Movement Green New Deal
• Five things to know aobut Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' (The Hill, November 24, 2018)
• Contact your Representatives
• Xcel Energy Board of Directors email

Pick up your free essentials and get in on the Eco-Impact Masterclass at:

• www.GreenTeamAcademy.com

This holiday, and every holiday season from now on, think about what could be more holy, more sacred than life itself.

Put Mother Nature on your gift list.

Start planning now for your Earth Day Celebration.

Listen in for a quick update on the 2019 Green Team Accelerator Lab.

Love to hear your thoughts and plans for Earth Day over in the Podcast Discussion Group in the Green Team Cafe. Get access via your free Green Team Essentials!

I'm bustling about getting ready for the 2018 Sustainable Denver Summit where Green Team Academy is an exhibitor.

Today's episode is about an exciting new program that we're offering in Denver, called the 2019 Denver Green Team Accelerator Lab. To find out more or to apply before the December 14, 2018 deadline, visit GreenTeamAcademy.com

Let's chat about stuff over in the Green Team Cafe! Get access via Green Team Essentials.

Not all Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Many Native Americans mark the fourth Thursday of November as a National Day of Mourning. It’s not easy, but it’s possible to hold the day as both a day of gratitude and as a remembrance of the genocide, and loss of native wisdom in our culture and especially in our leadership.

Detailed show notes

Quotes from Chief Seattle, Chief Red Cloud, Chief Oren Lyons, Winona LaDuke, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this over in the Podcast Discussion Group. Get access through the Green Team Essentials at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com.

Have you ever watched people repeatedly do something that you deem to be perfectly crazy, but it's just what everyone does? What if you could switch "normal" and "crazy"? This is the root of solving our environmental challenges. Tune in to find out more about how we can use "norm engineering" to get quicker results.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this over in the Podcast Discussion Group. Get access through the Green Team Essentials at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com.

When you hear about strategic planning and developing an annual plan, you probably groan thinking of onerous corporate or government systems. Instead, how about recognizing that nature uses an elegant annual plan to get things done every year.

Time-stamped notes:

[1:00] Starting a Green Team can feel overwhelming.

[1:30] Have you ever thought about what Mother Nature’s “to do” list is?

[2:10] How does life get it all done?

[2:40] It doesn’t try to get it all done at once.

[3:10] This is the brilliance of seasons.

[3:20] Strategic annual planning is not just an onerous corporate process.  It’s an elegant approach based on nature.

[4:30] What could go in your annual plan?

Strategic Visioning and Annual Planning Meeting

Monthly Meetings

Earth Day Festival or Sustainability Fair

Project Activities

[5:45] Beauty of the process is that it’s going to help you pare down your demands and encourage to reach out to find partners.

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The time for action is now because there is no Planet B!

You've probably heard the Margaret Mead quote a million times. It's the one that starts, "Never doubt...". The fact that we often don't comprehend or believe this shows the level of brainwashing that's taken place. In this teeny, tiny podcast, her quote is the message for the day.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Head over to GreenTeamAcademy.com for more resources to help you start and grow your green team.

It’s easy to feel cynical about voting in general, let alone the effort to figure out what candidates or ballot initiatives to support. But if this is our number one way to make a difference, then shouldn’t we talk about it more? How do you decide who to vote for and do you talk about it? That’s the focus of today’s episode. And we’re going to start it off by taking a cue from pop star Taylor Swift. And end with who I’m voting for in the November 2018 midterm elections.  

More details in the show notes.

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