Green Retirement

Are you one of the millions of Americans who are deeply in debt?  Did you know that your debt caused a tremendous amount of environmental damage?  Every time you went shopping, and used your credit card, you were killing the planet.  To produce the product that you could not afford, required the increased consumption, of […]

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Can a hippy retirement be the secret to an early retirement?  Could going back to the simple low consumption lifestyle of their hippy youth, be the solution to the retirement disaster, facing the  baby boom generation?  When the American Baby Boom generation was getting all groovy 40 years ago, the high-water mark for the American […]

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Celebrate Labor Day 2009 by retiring early.  American workers will be enjoying a day off from work this Labor Day, not knowing that millions of American workers, could be enjoying every day off from work.  Millions of Americans, who could otherwise be retired, are unnecessarily working.
The reason is that most American workers use the traditional […]

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Recently, I’ve been getting quite a few comments on the Retirement Blog, from conservatives who have read my Green Retirement articles, and accuse me of being an ignorant stupid moronic liberal, and assume that I own a limousine or at least a Prius.  The conservative commenters also assume that I voted for President Obama, and […]

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 Today is Your Financial Independence Day
Over two centuries ago, on the 4th of July 1776, Americans declared their independence from the British empire. This 4th of July you can declare your independence from the Wall Street empire.   Just as only a small portion of the American population gained true independence on that fateful day […]

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I don’t know exactly when it started, or even where it started, but I can see dead trees.  Wherever I go, I see the rain forests, jungles, redwoods that once existed.  Where people see cows grazing on beautiful rolling green covered hills - I see dead trees.
Long after the forests and those who remember them […]

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Planning your own retirement is easy, really it is, Wall Street makes it complicated and confusing on purpose.  All you need to plan your own retirement is 3 pieces of paper, a pencil, and a calculator.  Why pay a financial planner a lot of money, receive a worthless guess, when you can plan your own […]

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You can reduce global warming by simply saving money.  The more money you put in a bank, the less money you spend, the lower your global warming impact.  At the same time that you are improving your financial future, you are also improving the planet’s future, a win-win for you and the planet.
It makes sense […]

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If you are rich, with a net worth over $1 million, please do America a favor and retire!  Your retirement will help save the economy.  And helping the economy helps save your retirement.  It is in your own selfish interest to retire.
When you retire:
You Create a New Job in the Economy
You lower the unemployment rate
You […]

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You created a Green Blog to Save The World!  You maybe also hoped that besides saving the world, your Green Blog could provide an income, enough money so that you could quit your job and save the planet.  You put in hours and hours of your life, learning how to create a blog, market your […]

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