Sharing stories about people who are transforming their lives through green innovations & actions.

Looking at the recent uprisings against Mubarek, Medvedev and Ben Ali, where people have united to say "enough is enough", I'm reminded of the great power that individuals possess when united for the benefit of a greater cause.

So as political reforms shape our history, I'm inspired by imagining people across the United States uniting to demand environmental responsibility from businesses & corporations, big and small. As news of BP's continued negligence of their responsible payback for the Gulf spill disaster or of continued health and environmental threats of our water supplies emerge or of toxic chemicals in children's toys, the American public may be left wondering what other environmental threats loom ahead, especially those that are avoidable if big business is forced to act responsibly? 

Instead of hitting the streets, let's begin by demanding that businesses-- both big and small-- act environmentally responsible. Enough is enough and we shouldn't stand for any practices that save businesses money at the cost of our well-being.

We couldn't be more pleased with the recent feedback about our new website!! As we near day four at our new digs, we feel buzzed from the growing enthusiasm and positive feedback that's surrounding our new showcase community! So if we haven't already, we'd love to hear from you!

In addition to preserving all of the popular features of our original website, we've gone where no person has gone before to bring you a slew of new features that are aimed at making those darker shades of green in your horizon an absolute reality: On the homepage alone, you'll find one feature that allows you to direct your green question to us. Simple ask because if it's in our powers, we will deliver! We're here to help break down the barriers presently holding you up from taking those steps that will help you save or make money by going green!

Our new home page also offers up-to-the minute green news from a handful of reputable environmental news sites, an interactive poll to let you know where you & others stand on adopting money-making or saving green actions, and an automated update of our most popular WFG videos so you can quickly see which WFG videos your neighbors found most inspiring! (Scroll down!)

But that's just the beginning. Your travels beyond the home page and to the WFG Community page may just blow you away! Sign up as a WFG Community member and begin sharing your personal greening videos, photos and stories with other WFG members! We're providing this unique platform to bring people from all walks of life together-- under one virtual roof-- where inspiring stories about an ever-growing variety of predominantly simple ways to save or make money in an environmentally sustainable way becomes the norm and not the exception; Where people can come to learn, teach or simply watch the growing environmental movement pave the way to building a stronger, more healthy economy that can sustain itself on its own two feet.

Welcome home & enjoy your stay. Be sure to let us know how we can help you. And thanks for being part of our growing family.

Whether it's news about the U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 9.4 percent, or news about fracking and the dangers surrounding our drinking water and our land, or growing reports of declines in one of our world's most important pollinators, it seems that our world is rapidly changing right before our eyes and that more can-- and should-- be done by each of us.

Doesn't it seem like there's a lack of knowledge (or rather, a lack of interest in gaining knowledge) about the issues surrounding such events? If a report on fracking states "after drinking water near fracking well sites, livers/hearts/respiratory systems fail, rare forms of cancer mysteriously grow, and cows drop dead" wouldn't you assume that Americans would be rushing to their computers to Google "Fracking"?

But over the past few hours, my search Google Trends for topics relative to our health and/or the health of our environment (livers/hearts/respiratory system failures, people!) has come up empty. I've been refreshing the Google Trends page every few minutes and instead of seeing "fracking" or "bees" or any topic relative to the environmental or social issues that we're facing (unemployment rates?), I see "Ricky Gervais" (the British comedian and the brainchild of the popular TV show The Office, and whose been highly criticized for his hosting comments on the Golden Globes this weekend); I see Regis Philbin (who announced his retirement) and I see "Apple earnings". Actually, "Apple earnings" makes a lot of sense since millions investor dollars are at stake given upcoming medical leave of Steve Jobs.

Although no one wants to seek bad news, it seems important that we all spend at least 3 minutes a day learning about issues outside of the Top-10 news items of the day-- make that Top-9 since one of the Top-10's usually always involves a celebrity mishap. If news of Angelina Jolie with a shaved head spread, her name would surely pop up on Google Trends...and probably stay there for hours-- if not days. So what

The nonprofit consumer watchdog Environmental Working Group (EWG) has yet again revealed a shocking report, this time about our nation's drinking water supply: A study of groundwater in 39 cities revealed unsafe levels of the carcinogenic chromium-6 (or hexavalent chromium) in 31 out of the 35 tap waters sampled-- that's 89 percent!

Also known as the "Eric Brokovich" chemical (because of the famous 1996 multi-million dollar settlement between PG&E and the residents of Henkley, California) chromium-6 has been shown to cause gastrointestinal cancerous tumors in humans and other species.

A UC Davis article says chromium (two forms of it, chromium-3 and chromium-6) can be found in the foods we eat, either in the food itself or in residual soils in which conventional foods are grown. Chromium 3 and 6 are used for chrome plating, dyes and pigments, and in leather and wood preservation.