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weekly goals for 08/23/09….the last week of August
Dear Readers, Here’s what I’ve been up to and my plans for next week.
My Ta-Dahssss from last week:
Had a Fabulous Radio interview with Marty White, host of Poetic Monthly Talk Radio Show on Tuesday August 18th about my new book release “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”. If you’d like to hear it, click on:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/poeticmonthly
Focused on health-
I’m tending my little organic garden; the tomatoes, cilantro, peaches, beets and basil are thriving, but my new cucumbers haven’t come out of the ground yet.
I’m working on reducing the calorie intake of my daily diet.- uh, this isn’t going so well-
Went to CURVES only two times this week, dang it!
Focused on writing:
I’m asking everyone I know, from all over the country and ALL OVER THE WORLD, to ask your local bookstores and libraries if they are carrying “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”. This will alert the stores that my book is now available to be distributed and that the public is interested in reading the book. You don’t even have to buy a copy, but can help me create a “buzz” about it so that the stores order a few copies to stock on their shelves!!
Wrote one more article for the Examiner.com this week about a free webinar that will discuss measuring your carbon footprint. If you’d like to read it come on over to: http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner *While you’re there, feel free to leave a comment or subscribe to my column to keep up with the latest news on renewable energy.*
Focused on business:
Began promotion campaign on “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time” it’s NOW available at http://www.amazon.com! Wrote three more press releases to send out.
My brand new radio show, “The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show” is on the SECOND TUESDAY of the month, and I’ve signed on Pablo Paster, a Sustainability Engineer, for the Sept 8th show.
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My To Do’s for this coming week:
Focus on health:
Go to CURVES three times this week.
Clean up the backyard, tend my organic garden and rearrange wreath on front door.
Focus on writing:
Write one article for the WBO (Women Business Owners) Magazine.
Write one more article for the Examiner.com and PasadenaNow.com, this one will be about LEED buildings located in Pasadena.
Start to compose my next newsletter “The FireWalker Flare” to send out to my mailing lists and networks.
****** IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE HIGHLIGHTED in my next issue of “The FireWalker Flare”, send me a 150 word blurb TODAY and a jpg of your book and it’ll go in the next issue. If you don’t have a book, you can send an announcement for your business or upcoming event and a jpg of your business logo or one of yourself. The spots will fill up fast, so don’t delay!*****
Focus on business:
Contact 2 book stores about book signings, send out more press releases, and post announcement on six more networks about the release of “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”.
Promote all my upcoming interviews and shows for the coming weeks, here they are:
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I’m inviting YOU to a very special spoken word event:
The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!
CALL IN# 712-432-0080 PIN 1085212#
WHEN: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
TIME: 2:30pm PST/ 3:30pm MST/ 4:30pm CST/ 5:30pm EST
(Please use the links given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.
Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm
OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS for Sept 1st are: Ken Austin, Diane Tegarden, Marva Collins-Bush, Sage Mora
Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!
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The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show
Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on Tuesday September 8th
at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.
The call in number is # 913-227-1219 and the PIN number 241734#
The link to our home page is http://internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm
My guest for the September 8th show will be Pablo Paster, a Sustainability Engineer who uses his unique background to answer readers’ sustainability-related questions on his online column “Ask Pablo”. Pablo is a Sustainability Engineer and VP at ClimateCHECK.
To read some of my environmental articles you can visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner
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May You Never Thirst! Diane Tegarden
Ann Arbor Mayor’s FREE Green Fair
clear blue sky
Ann Arbor Mayor’s Green Fair
The ninth annual Mayor’s Green Fair is set for Friday, June 12, 2009 from 6pm-9pm in downtown Ann Arbor. Downtown Main Street will be open only to pedestrians for free entertainment and over 100 exhibitors with environmental information, hands-on youth activities, a clean energy expo, green construction, alternative transportation and green commuting options, BikeFest 2009, walking tours, and booths from the environmental leaders of Washtenaw County!
We are what we eat……
home grown squash and peaches
OH, speaking of food and its impacts on the creatures of Earth, here’s another bit of information/event notice regarding we human creatures, what we eat and how it impacts the environment.
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SOS Climate Change Seminar – Learn How a Plant-Based Diet Can Save the Earth!
When: May 16, 2009 – 2:00pm
Where: Marin Luther King Library, Room 225
San Jose, Calif.
This is a multimedia presentation with the latest scientific data showing the relationship between our diet and global warming, moderated by a staff member of LetsActNow. Find out more about how YOU can make a difference! Be veg, Go green, Save the Planet! For more information, contact LetsActTogether@gmail.com
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To The Dance of Life!
31 Days of Notable Women- Julia Rhodes-inventor/mentor!
Julia M. Rhodes founded KleenSlate Concepts in 2001. She invented, patented, manufactured, and marketed the first KleenSlate product: an attachable eraser for dry erase markers. Since then, she has built a thriving international company with a growing line of award-winning products. Julia’s goals are to build lasting relationships’ with customers, create environmentally friendly products and to develop strategic alliances with businesses and organizations.
Highly professional as an entrepreneur, Julia has a lively approach to marketing. She generously encourages and supports women, small business entrepreneurs, and inventors. Additionally, she serves as a board member for “A Hand up Coaching” a career program for low-income women. She particularly enjoys assisting inventors with the daunting steps of production and marketing. In this capacity, has worked with the US Patent Office and the PBS Inventor show Everyday Edisons.
Visit her cool website to learn more about her great inventions and programs at http://www.kleenslate.com
We applaud you Julia!!
Chemical Spills…the toxins we live with
home grown food is the best!
“THE GROWING NEED FOR DETOXIFICATION (reprinted from Dr. David Williams newsletter)
Take a look at the toxic world we live in …
* Mankind has invented no fewer than 10 million new chemicals, approximately 3,500 of which are in your food, with an equal number in your homes and household products.
* Since World War II, nearly 80,000 new synthetic chemicals have been released into the environment.
* Over 350 different pesticides are used on the food we eat.
* Roughly 300 known harmful substances can be found in most blood samples these days.
* The average home contains 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials.
* Detectable levels of dozens of long-lasting synthetic chemicals (e.g., DDT, plasticizers, dioxins, benzene-related solvents) are foud in tissues of all living things on Earth.
* In the US alone, over 4 billion pounds of pesticides are used every year (that’s 8 pounds for every man, woman, and child).
* There are at least 5,000 chemical ingredients in cosmetics.
* Prescription medications are now showing up in our water supply.
Source Cited:
http://straightfromthegarden.com”
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from Diane’s Desk:
Our bodies aren’t made to break down and ingest toxins, so the liver and kidneys that clean and maintain our other internal organs can begin to deteriorate due to the unnatural retention of the poisonous substances we pour into them.
Many people are now becoming savvy to the fact that our bodies aren’t a toxic waste dump, and that in order to rid yourself of disease you must first allow your body to do its job unhindered.
Eating organic food simply means the food hasn’t been grown using pesticides that get into the food through the root system and its skin; it also helps to use cleaning agents and cosmetics that don’t contain toxins.
We use Simple Green to clean floors and surfaces, and scrubbing/cleaning agents without toxic surfactants (which pollute the water we end up drinking.)
Which non-toxic products do you use?
It IS easy being green!!!
Speaking of EASY…
here’s one easy way you can eat organically and still not suffer chocolate withdrawals.
I’ve made organic double fudge brownies from a mix by Nature’s Path. They use whole grain wheat flour, organic cane juice as a sweetener, and no funky preservatives.
Other incentives to try these brownies:
no trans fats
vegetarian
Non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
heck, even the box is made from 100% recycled paperboard.
Did I mention they taste chocolaty, are soft and delicious?
YUP, sometimes it IS easy being green!!!
What are some of your favorite organic foods/name brands??
Do Tell!
Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden
Visualize your Big Goals Here!
At this time of the year it is appropriate to look ahead and visualize the BIG GOALS, or end results we’d like to see for 2009. Here are my annual goals for 2009:
FireWalker Publications’ Business Goals= promote books on major radio venues; continue to update website; rewrite “LTSW-2”; possibly begin a new writing project (TBD); sell 500% more books this year!
Health goals= steadily reduce weight by 1.5 lb per month; feel worthy of personal compliments.
Personal goals= continue to pay off debts; finish organizing the rest of our personal docs in garage; Put in organic garden by Spring of 2009!
What are you dreaming of?
I’m dreaming of a Green Christmas
Our Christmas Tree
“I’m dreaming of a Green Christmas” by Diane Tegarden
There are lots of ways to enjoy the holidays without leaving a negative impact on our fragile environment. Here are ten fun tips on Greening your Christmas this year:
1. Buy a live tree that you can decorate this year, and then plant in your backyard with your kids, and watch it grow as they grow! We have a Norfolk Pine and another two pine trees in our yard that were originally Christmas trees. Each tree lasts about three years in its pot, so you can use it over and over again before planting it.
2. Donate your live tree to an organization in your community that’s dedicated to planting trees, like the Arbor Day Society or the Boy/Girl Scouts.
Tip: If you do buy a cut tree, remember, the city can’t recycle them into compost if they have: flocking, tinsel “icicles” or Christmas ornaments still attached to them. Remove all decorations and get them on the curb in time to be recycled by your local waste department after Christmas.
3. Send your gifts in festively decorated baskets that can be wrapped in colored cellophane. This will save buying a mountain of wrapping paper that will become trash in an instant. The baskets can be reused again for gifts the next year!
4. If you save Christmas cards like I do, you may not want to throw them away, and can’t figure out how to reuse them. Here’s a tip: you can tape them onto your gift boxes, creating colorful, original wrapped gifts, without using wrapping paper.
5. Have fun with the kids by using your computer’s printer/scanner/copier to make your own wrapping paper. Lay out your old Christmas cards in a fanciful arrangement and copy them, then use the sheets of homemade wrapping paper for the smaller gifts.
6. If you save beautiful old calendars and just can’t bear to part with them, use the pages to wrap smaller gifts, or you can tape several pages together for the medium sized gifts.
7. For larger gifts, you can simply use a huge bow, or attach tree trimmings and pine cones decoratively to the gifts.
8. Using LED Christmas lights can save you money on your electric bill, while reducing pollution from the added electrical energy generated at Christmas just from outdoor lighting alone. Retail hardware stores countrywide are now offering these lightweight, low-cost alternatives to the energy guzzling traditional lighting.
9. Solar power your Christmas lighting display this year with a small modular system that is directly connected to your Christmas lighting. (This will only power your Christmas lighting display; it will not generate power for your whole house, so it costs much less that a full home system.) Yippee! Imagine reducing your energy bills at Christmastime!!
10. Buy your gifts from eco-friendly vendors, for example; companies that sell products made from recycled materials; companies whose practices are Earth friendly, like buying fair trade goods; companies whose track record for treating their employees, especially women and minorities, with respect and equanimity.
More and more, the terms “eco-friendly” and “people-friendly” are meant to convey care for the same things; all the living creatures of the world, be they plants, animals or people. This attitude will allow us to see the entire ecosystem of the Earth as a whole, and perhaps, be able to begin to heal it as a whole, including its people.
Bright Blessings,
Diane T. and furfamily
Second Chances…What Will You Do When Yours Shows Up?
Diane Tegarden, Dec 2007
Second chances don’t come around that often…or do they? Will you recognize yours when it happens to come knocking on your door? This was the challenge I faced when I was diagnosed with lupus in 2001. What I experienced, my stages of grief and anger and denial, slowly changed to educating myself on what I was up against. Once I got going again, I discovered a new world of diet, health and renewal, but it didn’t happen by itself, and it didn’t happen overnight.
Beverly Mahone and I will talk about how to overcome adversity and turn it into a “new” second chance on her radio show “Whatever Live!” Tune in for a fascinating hour of Talk Radio.
WHAT: Interview with Beverly Mahone on Whatever Live! Radio
WHERE: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/whateverlive
CALL IN# 646-652-2594
WHEN: Thursday August 28th
TIME: 9am PST/ 10am MST/ 11am CST/ 12noon EST
Bring your cup of coffee and share your story of Adventure through Adversity tomorrow.
