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I would be remiss to let Earth Day go by this week without posting something that’s environmentally related.  At the same time, I want to post something about a remarkable lady named Beth Brownlee whom I recently profiled for Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine.  My publisher tells me the profile may not run until September in the fall issue, but I just can’t wait that long to publish something about her.

It just so happens that Beth’s story is also about the environment, so I get to include both breast cancer wellness advocacy and Going Green in one post.  Lucky me!  Lucky You!

Beth is a breast cancer survivor and co-founder of Trust Your Journey (http://www.trustyourjourney.com/).  More community site than online storefront, Trust Your Journey is and will be a place where women who are facing challenges of all kinds can share their experiences and, in the process, help each other.   Beth’s business partner is Ruth Nichols.  Both women chronicle their challenges on the site in the spirit of sharing and helping.

According to their website, “Trust Your Journey inspires women everywhere to honor their inner strength and celebrate their personal path through life.  TYJ products proclaim a commitment to this belief while embracing the use of socially and environmentally responsible practices.”   

These two courageous ladies opted to go the less profitable but far-more-satisfying route of offering only organic clothing and eco-friendly products on their website, because, as Beth put it, it’s the right thing to do. 

So, if you’re in the market for an all-organic cotton tee-shirt or NEAT seed-filled wrapping paper that you can later plant to grow flowers, check out Trust Your Journey (and watch for the fall issue of Breast Cancer Wellness) for my profile of Beth.  DSJC.

My buddy, Chris Knepper, recently posted a comment on the US auto industry and its fight to avoid making environmentally friendly alternative fuel cars.  His point is that, rather than spending the same money on lawyers to fight change, why not spend it on making the needed manufacturing changes?  He goes on to say that, on the one hand, by switching to eco-friendly and economic products, they might start enjoying in the robust sales that Toyota, Honda and others are, or, on the other hand, they can continue to fight the inevitable while wishing everyone would stop buying foreign-made cars.  I would argue that they also would enjoy better PR if they’d just embrace the needed changes — the changes that future buyers from Generations Y and beyond want…and will buy even at a premium.

To check out Chris’ take on this topic, go to his blog on MySpace at: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=19487059&blogID=363917854

DSJC

In my first post, I mentioned my passion for news on global warming & peak oil.  It just so happens that one of my dearest friends, Christopher S. Knepper, shares my passion.  Rather, he takes it to an entirely different level, and I hang on to his coat strings.

Chris now writes a fabulously informative newsletter, Sunny & Share, entirely produced by him – graphics, layouts, charts, copy, etc.  Until recently, you needed to follow Chris’ blogs to get wind of it or be lucky enough to count among his friends and get a hard copy of it (printed in recycled paper). 

NOW, you can read it online.  Yes, Chris has taken his labor of love to the Internet and developed a site for Sunny & Share at http://home.earthlink.net/~sunnyandshare/index.html.

If you’re at all interested in learning more about global warming & peak oil and finding out how to address these issues, start with Chris’ Sunny & Share.

So, whew! I’ve finally shared something about this very important topic.  How appropriate that the source be Chris.  You’ll see that he’s a mental giant – truly.  Sometimes, talking to him can make your head hurt, but that’s a good thing; it means your learning something.

DSJC.