Green Retirement Blog

San Francisco, CA (October 28, 2008) – Green Retirement LLC today announced the creation of a new business line, Green Retirement Consulting, to assist corporations, federal, state, and local governments, identify appropriate candidates for early retirement packages. 
Hoping to prevent indiscriminate wholesale layoffs, Green Retirement LLC decided to launch their consulting practice ahead of schedule, […]

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Gasoline prices have dropped, over $1 a gallon from their recent highs, making this a great opportunity to tax gas to fund Green Investments.  When gasoline prices were highest, Americans adjusted to high pump prices by making lifestyle changes, that greatly benefited the environment and their health.
 
Americans bought high mpg cars, stopped driving […]

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Around 15 years ago, I helped launch the “Conservation Checking Account” at Bank of the West, the brainchild of CEO Don McGrath.  Half the monthly fees from the Conservation Checking Account, went to the Northern California branch of The Nature Conservancy, providing over $3 million dollars to help fund environmental restoration programs.  And, Bank of […]

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Lower the retirement age, from the current 62 to 78 years old, down to 58 years.  This simple act, will create jobs, and lower unemployment.  And will have the effect of increasing wages, as workers move up to higher paying jobs, replacing older skilled workers.  As wages go up, more money is placed […]

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Buy Green!
  Welcome to the Green Age!  A new era is about to begin, gone is the era of consumption capitalism, welcome to the era of green capitalism.  It is no coincidence, that both capitalism and the environment, are on the verge of collapse at the very same time.  And the reason is simple, and […]

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Green Retirement introduces paperless retirement planning.  From filling out the online retirement survey, to the preparation and presentation of your completed Green Retirement plan, every part of the process is web based and no trees will die as a result.
You will receive your Green Retirement Plan in .pdf format, which enables anyone using any computer, […]

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- Retire Them!
Memo to all Human Resource departments, in corporations across America, do not fire your employees - retire your employees. Use Green Retirement to solve several demanding issues facing almost all human resource departments in today’s economy.
Use Green Retirement to determine which employees are most qualified, for early retirement packages, before your company […]

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The Social Security Administration announced that in 2009, retirees will receive the largest cost of living adjustment in the last 25 years, Social Security checks will be going up by 5.8 percent starting January.  For the average Social Security recipient, receiving a check of $1153 per month, the increase represents a $63 per month increase.
The […]

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Searching for a San Francisco retirement planner, you will encounter good financial and retirement planners, and not so good retirement planners.  However, all San Francisco retirement planners share one thing in common, the formula they use to calculate your retirement savings needs is wrong.
Traditional retirement planners in San Francisco, or any other city in America […]

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Everyone is by now, very painfully aware, that world stock markets are crashing.  There is a tremendous amount of fear, and near panic, from Beijing to Moscow, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Dubai, Mumbai and Washington.  Hardly a corner of the planet exists, that is not feeling the effects, of a world economic meltdown.   What is […]

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