Green Retirement Blog

You are in love - you are planning to get married. You have discussed children, where you want to live, religion, your honeymoon, and many other subjects regarding your future lives together. Have you talked about retirement? Do you, and your soon to be spouse, share the same retirement goals?
In romance opposites may attract, when […]

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I had written an article, “Retire Now or Never”, telling Americans that they should retire “now” and not wait for a recession. How they were far wealthier, than they assumed, and that they should take advantage and retire. That article was written before the housing collapse, the stock market collapse, and now the imminent recession.
Now […]

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I first read “Your Money or Your Life”, a self-help finance book, about ten years ago. It was instrumental in affirming, my evolution from a consumer to a human, and my desire to leave the rat race and retire. “Your Money or Your Life” did an excellent job of critiquing our culture of consumption, and […]

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If the economy enters into a recession, which most economists now predict will happen, what effect will it have on retirements? For people planning their retirement, those about to retire, or who may already be retired? The answer is the same, for retirements as well as the economy, a period of declining wealth.
What can […]

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Today, on the newsstand, one of the leading personal finance and retirement publications, had as the headline for their latest issue - “Retire Rich!” I’ve seen similar headlines, on other personal finance magazines, over the last several months. So, now let’s address the issue of Greed and Retirement. Because your greed, along with fear and […]

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Using the Green Retirement method of retirement planning, is simple and easy, and allows you to retire early with less savings. I have created a 12-step program for over-coming over consumption, which is essential, if you want to take advantage of this new retirement planning method. However, there are a few more things you will […]

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12 Steps to Health and Wealth
 
Green Retirement offers a revolutionary method, to retiring early, and with much less savings. However, in order to take advantage of this unique approach to retirement, you are going to need to change your lifestyle from consumption to conservation. I have created a 12 step program, to help […]

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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 retirement […]

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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 industry […]

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