Early Retirement Blog

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 waste.

Green Retirement turns despair into hope. You don’t have to suffer, you can still retire, you just need to adopt a green lifestyle.  Some simple lifestyle changes will enable you to still retire. Here is an example I often use, to illustrate how Green Retirement works, and how it can help you achieve your retirement goals.

If you own a car, and your total monthly car expense is $600, getting rid of your car and it’s expense can have a dramatic positive impact on your retirement.  If you invest the $600, you save by living a car free life, in twenty years you will have an additional $455,000 in retirement savings.  And, if you live a car free life in retirement, you will need $180,000 less dollars to retire.

The Greener you become, by reducing your consumption and expenses, the less savings you need for retirement.  It’s really that simple.  Green Retirement has created a formula and method, that calculates the positive retirement benefit, of living a green or low consumption lifestyle.

Here is another example of how Green Retirement gives you hope for retirement.  If you earn $85,000 per year, traditional retirement planning calculates, that you will need $1,700,000 to retire.  Using Green Retirement, if your retirement budget is $2,750 per month, you will need $825,000 to retire.  That is more than a million dollar difference, between Green Retirement, and traditional retirement planning.  Try the Free Green Retirement Calculator.

So, please, don’t despair. Retirement is still an achievable reality.  Read How To Retire Early, to learn how you can turn despair, into hope.