Early Retirement Blog

On 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 helping clients switch  from a consumption lifestyle, to a green lifestyle, life coaches can help their clients achieve their retirement goals. Clients [...]

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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, over [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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According to the National Small Business Association, only 22% of small and mid-size business owners, have set up retirement accounts.   A good article on CNN Money, gives a run-down on the different retirement savings options, available for small business owners. Having owned and managed a small hotel, prior to starting Green Retirement Planning, I [...]

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Green Retirement has launched groups on two popular social networking sites, eons and Linkedin, in an effort to spread the Green Retirement message. eons is designed for baby boomers, giving them a place to connect and interact online, and more importantly to share ideas.   Linkedin is geared towards professionals, giving them an online networking [...]

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It is hard to remain positive with all the negative economic and environmental news, but every once in a while their is a story, that maintains your faith in a greener future.  Coho salmon discovered in creek. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that efforts by The Nature Conservancy, has resulted in the return of the [...]

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