Finally getting started!

So after a considerable delay, I'm finally getting this blog off the ground. I know that there still aren't many that members, but hopefully it will grow as we go along. In the meantime, thank you all so much for joining up. I truly appreciate it. I hope that this will be something fun for all of you, as well as something helpful. Being green can be a challenge, but through learning from each other, I think we'll find it easier than it may seem.

The official One Green Hour schedule will be thus: weekly posts will go up on Sundays, which means that any submissions for that week must be sent by Saturday. Those of you on the email list will receive only two emails a week, one on Friday reminding you to do your one green hour if you haven't already, and one on Sunday when the post goes up. Remember, one hour per week is not much time at all (and I suspect some of it in the future will consist of reading everyone else's submissions, which will be great!). As long as you come up with at least one thing to email in, this site will be a huge success!

As a reminder, these are the categories:

VOTE: Send in national or local politicians with green records, so we can keep them in office.
SPEAK UP: Alerts for green policies and how to support them. Calling and email campaigns will go here.
INVEST: I'm a grad student living primarily on loans, but for those of you with a bit of pocket money, this will be the place to find ways to further development and research of green technology.
SUPPORT: Poor grad students can use their precious little money to help the planet, too! This will be the space for consumer goods with positive environmental practices.
EVERYDAY LIVING: Tips for eating, cleaning, traveling, and just generally living green.

This means there will be a huge spectrum of things you can send in. The only rule: it must contain a SOLUTION that can be done. This can be anything from donating money to research to how to use fewer paper products. As long as action can be taken, it will fit the blog. Please DO NOT send something that's just a report on how bad things are. Those are absolutely important and have their place, but that's not what I want this blog to be. So for the sake of your humble blogger's mental health, make sure there's a solution in your submissions, please!

This is obviously a Tuesday, not a Sunday, but I'm giving myself a week and a half to figure out how to do this the first time around. For this first time around, I would also love it if you could use part of your one green hour getting someone else to look at this blog and sign up! I want to get as many members as possible so we could all get the most out of this project. I'm super excited about this. Thank you all again so much. Now go forth and be green! See you next week!