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What People are Saying About the Green Living Program

"This program is the first step-by-step plan for turning environmental concern into action.”

The Chicago Tribune

“One of the most enlightening and useful programs that I have had the privilege to encounter . . . It provides a starting point for citizens and communities to begin the journey of becoming more sustainable.”

Michele Perrault, Past President, The Sierra Club

"The Green Living Program has demonstrated results... it can make a real difference. In our work with communities across America this is exactly the sort of tool for which they are searching.”

Molly Olson, Executive Director,
President’s Council on Sustainable Development

"The potential resource savings are tremendous... and what's truly exciting about the EcoTeam approach is that it can serve as a catalyst to creating a more sustainable community."

Ava Frisinger, Mayor, City of Issaquah, WA

"I feel this program is superb, not only because of what it has done for me, but because it has the potential to do so much for the community.”

Krista M. Schauer, Portland, OR, EcoTeam member

"The Green Living Handbook is the most practical and well implemented program to help people create environmentally sustainable lifestyles.”

Daphne Gemmill, Exec. Dir., Project Earthlink, NOAA U.S. Dept. of Commerce

"I've lived in the neighborhood for 21 years, but getting to know my neighbors started three years ago with an EcoTeam. We knew a lot of people by sight, but now we know them much better. There is a lot more friendliness on the streets now. It's given us the feeling of being embedded in the community and having roots. I highly recommend the neighborhood EcoTeam process.”

Sarah Conn, West Newton, MA, EcoTeam member

More information can be found on David Gershon's website:

www.empowermentinstitute.net

Empowerment Institute is the world's premiere consulting and training organization specializing in the methodology of empowerment. Its state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past twenty-five years to achieve significant and measurable behavior change at the organizational and community level. Its clients consist of corporations, public sector agencies and non profits.

A 6 Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle

Saving the planet . . . one household at a time

By David Gershon, founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute

If you're like many people, you have a vague sense of what you should be doing to reduce your impact on the environment, but you don't where to begin. You may feel overwhelmed. Or you may have gone as far you know how, and need support to take the next step.

The Green Living Handbook will assist you in translating your desire to do the right thing into a program of environmental action that will make a difference. The program simplifies the overwhelm of information, and divides it into six steps each carried out over a two week period.

Step 1: Reducing Your Solid Waste
Step 2: Water Efficiency
Step 3: Energy Efficiency
Step 4: Transportation Efficiency
Step 5: Eco-wise Consuming
Step 6: Empowering Others

This easy-to-use program will also help you form an EcoTeam of friends, neighbors, co-workers, or household members to provide you the motivation and support to follow through with your good intentions. Saving the planet begins with each of us. Thank you for doing your part!

Green Living Program

If one or more of the following categories fit your situation, participating in the Green Living Program will be helpful.

You have a vague sense of what you should do for the environment, but beyond recycling, you don’t know what to do or how to do it
You are well informed, but need motivation translating this knowledge into action.
You are doing many sustainable lifestyle practices, but need help achieving better consistency for each practice.
You are practicing a consistently sustainable lifestyle, but wish to go to the next level.

Environmental action that will make a difference

The Green Living Program will assist you in translating your desire to do the right thing into a program of environmental action that will make a difference. 5 or 6 households – an EcoTeam – meet 7 times over a 4 month period and use a step-by-step workbook to create a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle. Choosing from a series of practical actions, the team supports one another to reduce waste, use less water and energy, buy "eco-wise” products and encourage others to get involved. More than increasing awareness, the Green Living Program enables people to change the way they live – measurably.

Depending upon the community, participants in the Green Living Program, on average achieve the following yearly resource savings:

41%-51% less garbage sent into the waste stream
25%-34% less water used
9%-17% less energy used
16%-20% less fuel used for transportation
$227-$389 saved through more efficient use of resources

All while improving the quality of life right where they live!

About David Gershon:

David Gershon is the author of nine books, including the best selling Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. The founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, he is one of the world's leading authorities on behavior change and large-scale transformation. At the height of the Cold War, he conceived and organized, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund and ABC Television, one of the planet’s first major global initiatives, the First Earth Run, which engaged millions of people in the passing of a symbolic torch of peace around the world. Since that time, he has addressed issues ranging from environmental behavior change to organizational talent development, from emergency preparedness to low-income neighborhood revitalization. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and United Nations on behavior change and sustainability issues.