Early Retirement Blog

On this Black Friday, November 28, 2008 in Long Island New York, a Wal-Mart employee was crushed to death by frenzied shoppers who crashed through the store’s doors before dawn.   What caused his death?  A Wii? A Big Screen Plasma HDTV? After the 34 year old employee had been trampled, and lay dead on the [...]

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 Thanksgiving on Alcatraz 2008 A Green Thanksgiving.  No turkey, stuffing, gravy, or cranberry sauce. Instead, at 6:00 a.m in the cold damp November air of San Francisco, we board a crowded ferry bound for Alcatraz Island.  On this day, as on every Thanksgiving day, the island belongs once again to Native Americans. Old warriors, of [...]

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An excellent article by Melissa Dahl, health writer for MSNBC,  describes the emotional impact of the economic collapse on people’s retirement dreams.  Americans planning for retirement, or who are already retired, are entering into mental depression.  Suffering from panic attacks, thoughts of suicide, and hopelessness.  It doesn’t have to happen, it is un-necessary, a terrible [...]

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 Free Retirement Planning Green Retirement Planning is currently offering a Free Retirement Analysis on it’s website.  Get a free estimate of when you can retire and how much savings you need for retirement.  The free retirement analysis, although not as thorough and accurate as a full retirement plan, will give you a far better estimate [...]

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Life coaches help clients improve their lives, and achieve their goals, through lifestyle changes.  Green Retirement Planning enables individuals to retire early, and with significantly less savings, by living a green lifestyle.  By switching from a consumption lifestyle, to a green lifestyle, life coach clients can retire earlier with less savings. Clients of life coaches, [...]

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   Grounded! Air France pilots are currently on strike, causing chaos in European skies this weekend, in an attempt to prevent their government from raising pilots retirement age from 60 to 65.  This is only the latest attempt, by the Sarkozy administration, to repeal France’s Social Security programs.   Believing that France lagged behind in growth, [...]

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The Nation Holds It’s Breath “As GM goes, so goes the nation.”  When American manufacturing dominated the globe, two generations ago, this popular motto described the economic well being of the United States.  The loss of GM, Ford, and Chrysler, would deal a crushing blow to the hope of a quick recovery out of recession. [...]

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 Jobs Baby Jobs! President-elect Barack Obama has promised $15 billion per year towards green energy and green infrastructure.  While seemingly a large figure, it is a drop in the bucket, that will have little economic impact on the $14 trillion U.S. economy. What is needed is a much larger investment in the Green economy, one [...]

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I’ve been coming across “Secret” followers on various social networking sites.  They seem like really friendly folks, who want to share the message of the “Secret”, with anyone and everyone.  I’ve seen the Secret movie, and I maybe dense as lead, but I have no clue what this “Law of Attraction” is all about? So, [...]

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 I have a Green Dream! Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised, on a radio broadcast this past weekend, to make investing $150 billion in “Green” projects his number one priority if elected.  As the economy and energy prices both decline, many new Green Energy start-ups, are worrying about their future. Obama’s “Green Apollo” project will inject [...]

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