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Live Near Your Job OR Work Near Where You Live

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CHAD SKALLY
Skally Management
Whether you own or rent your home it pays to move near your workplace. The current estimate of car expenses is 58.5 cents per mile. So for every ten miles your workplace is closer to your home you save $58.50 per week. Assuming you average 30 to 60 miles-per-hour during your commute you will also get an additional two to three hours of extra free time each week.

Five Tips to Launch Your Own Green Business: ECOPRENEURING

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LISA KIVIRIST
Co-Author, ECOpreneuring, Rural Renaissance, Edible Earth
Are you at a job that doesn't reflect your mission to leave this world a better place? Feeling those Monday morning blues? Get out of the cubicle track of working for someone else. Blend your green lifestyle with your livelihood and become an ecopreneur: launch a business reflecting your passion for caring for the planet and people.

Here are some tips to get started, with much more detail found in the book, ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits.

1. Identify your Earth Mission

Footnotes/Endnotes
ON THE WEB!

Green Routes, greenroutes.org

Profiles of sustainable rural businesses,
renewingthecountryside.org

 

Read Up!

ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits, by Lisa Kivirist & John Ivanko, ecopreneuring.biz, New Society Publishers, 2008.

Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life, by Lisa Kivirist & John Ivanko, ruralrenaissance.org, New Society Publishers, 2004.

The Angry Trout Café Notebook: Friends, Recipes and the Culture of Sustainability, by George Wilkes, www.angrytroutcafe.com, Northwind Sailing, 2004.

The author in her garden.

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