Early Retirement Blog

This new year, think big, make your top new year’s resolution retirement. Conventional wisdom says to create small, manageable new years resolutions, that are easy to accomplish. Lose ten pounds, join a gym, get better organized, all are typical new year’s resolutions. And saving more money for retirement, increasing your 401k contributions, reducing your debt, [...]

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One of the reasons why I believe your retirement will have a positive impact on the environment, besides reducing your consumption, is that once you are retired you will have time to save the planet. With retirement, the excuse of “I’m working and don’t have the time to get involved”, is no longer true. And [...]

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Starting January 1st, 2008, I am going to show how you can, retire in San Francisco with less than a million dollars. Better yet, retire in the best neighborhood in San Francisco, with less than a million dollars. That’s right, you can retire in one of the ten best neighborhoods in the country, in the [...]

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Conservation and Retirement Conservation saves you money, the planet, and your retirement. In a previous retirement blog article, “Retirement Consumption Assumption“, I wrote about how the retirement industry calculates your retirement based on consumption. About why the consumption assumption method, of calculating retirement, is both economically and environmentally unsustainable. And also, why the formula the [...]

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New years is almost here, and one of the top New Years resolution, is always to quit smoking. There are many reasons to quit smoking, and here’s another reason you may not have thought of, the impact of smoking on your retirement. You know that smoking costs you a lot of money, it may be [...]

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Getting to retirement involves climbing two steps. A proper retirement plan turns achieving your retirement, which at first may appear to be a steep wall, into two easily surmountable steps. But before you can climb those 2 steps into retirement, you need to know their names, they are Today and Tomorrow. Step 1 to Retirement [...]

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The current approach to retirement planning is neither, financially accurate, nor environmentally sustainable. It will lead to disastrous consequences, not only for our planet, but possibly your retirement as well. The retirement industry calculates your retirement on the assumption that you wish to remain hyper consumers – a “Consumption Assumption.” The method the retirement planning [...]

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Your retirement accounts, 401k’s and IRA’s, are not a retirement plan. Putting money into your retirement accounts, even regularly, is not a retirement plan. This slight variation in wording, retirement account vs. retirement plan, leads many Americans to believe that opening and contributing to a 401k or an IRA is a plan for retirement. It [...]

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Every retirement plan, is as unique as the individual, whose retirement is being planned. However, every retirement plan, should be able to answer the following 3 questions. And more importantly – answer them correctly. When can I retire? Traditional retirement planning answers when can I retire, by setting a savings goal, and using your savings [...]

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Green Retirement Planning is  proud to announce the opening of their San Francisco Retirement Planning office. In keeping with the company philosophy of conservation, the new San Francisco office will be virtual, however San Francisco retirement planner Ramsay Mameesh is available to meet with clients in San Francisco. A Green Retirement plan is a unique [...]

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