We can break the two party system, Vote GREEN!

Did you know that there are 133 Green officeholders as of Thursday, May 10, 2012?

For more information on truly alternative choices for political office visit The Green Party at: http://www.gp.org/index.php

There are two women and a Native American man running for President in 2012, so if you want to support the environment and help break the two party system, consider voting GREEN!

Energetically, Diane Tegarden

Persistence by Calvin Coolidge

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
–Calvin Coolidge

Short Bio-
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States
from (August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929). His nickname was “Silent Cal”, he was born: July 4, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont and died: January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts. For more information, visit:
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ccoolidge.html

Energetically, Diane Tegarden

31 Days of Notable Women-Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, famous first, poet

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was born on September 27, 1861 in New York City, the fourth and youngest child of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.

She began writing at an early age, through the encouragement of her friends, in particular Edith Wharton who helped critique her poetry. In 1911, she published her first poem, “The Call of Brotherhood”, in Scribner’s Magazine. Her first book of poems of the same title was published in 1912. This volume was quickly followed by One Woman to Another and Other Poems (1914) dedicated to her daughter, also named Corinne, commemorating the loss of Robinson’s brother Elliott and son, Stewart. Other volumes of poetry by Robinson include Service and Sacrifice (1919) dedicated to her brother Theodore Roosevelt, The Poems of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1924), and Out of Nymph (1930) dedicated to Charles Scribner. She also wrote the prose memoir My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1924). In 1920, Robinson became the first woman ever to address a nomination convention speaking before a crowd of 14,000.

 Bio from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_Roosevelt_Robinson

31 Days of Notable Women- meet Yemeni’s “Iron Woman”

Tawakel Abdel-Salam Karman (born 7 February 1979) became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. She has been called by Yemenis the “Iron Woman” and “Mother of the Revolution.”. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakkul_Karman

31 Days of Notable Women- Janet Napolitano, woman of many firsts

Janet Napolitano is a woman of many “firsts”, as the current Head of Homeland Security, she resides in Washington, DC. Her educational background includes a BA/BS from Santa Clara University; and a JD from the University of Virginia. Her term as governor of Arizona (yes, she was the first woman) gives her special insight into the escalating, gory drug war on the Mexican-U.S. border and the American public’s strident disagreements over immigration reform–most notably the Arizona law aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants.

As the country’s first female head of the Department of Homeland Security,  she’s had to deal with several tough, high-profile cases, among them the near-miss bombing on Times Square and a Nigerian national’s Christmas Day effort to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner. 

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/janet-napolitano

31 Days of Notable Women- Virginia Woolf, quotable woman

Quotable Women-

“If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or protect either myself or my country. For, the outside will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world…” -Virginia Woolf  (1882 – 1941)- England

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson14.html

Sustainable Energy Events March 14- 22, 2012

Sustainable Energy Events March 14- 22, 2012

http://www.examiner.com/sustainable-energy-in-national/sustainable-energy-events-march-14-22-2012

31 Days of Notable Women- Frances Perkins, first woman to serve on a presidential cabinet

Fannie Coralie Perkins was born in Boston in 1880 and quickly realized that her life would be based around helping others. Perkins, who later changed her name to Frances, worked with Jane Addams at the Hull House in Chicago and later worked for the Tammany Hall political machine and then-governor of New York, Al Smith.

However, it was a coincidental incident that made Perkins become so passionate about workplace reform. In 1910, Perkins was eating lunch in Greenwich Village when she heard the alarm bells at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. From this moment on, Perkins dedicated her life to reforming workplace conditions.

In 1933, FDR appointed Perkins to Secretary of Labor, making her the first female to serve in a presidential cabinet. Although Downey pointed out that this achievement was monumental, she insisted that Perkins is still “one of the least-known, most important social progressives in history.”

Perkins continued to rise in fame, as she was involved in an enormous expansion of government and regulations as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. She championed the establishment of a minimum wage and a social security program for all workers.

Source cited: http://cornellsun.com/print/35946

31 Days of Notable Women- The World’s Most Powerful Woman

According to Forbes list of the “World’s Most Powerful Women of 2010”, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman on the planet. Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany, who oversees Europe’s largest economy. Renowned free-market champion and favorite of big business, boasts nine public companies with annual sales in excess of $70 billion. In all, there are 57 German companies on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking of the world’s largest public companies, with aggregate sales of $1.7 trillion.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/angela-merkel

31 Days of Notable Women- Nancy Pelosi, The first woman Speaker of the House

The first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi is the highest-ranking female politician in U.S.history, second in line to the presidency. She is preparing to do battle in this fall’s mid-term elections both for the Democratic Party and her own seat, which may be threatened if Democrats lose control of the House. She is under pressure from GOP chairman Michael Steele, who launched the “Fire Pelosi Bus Tour” set for this fall. Pelosi remains confident. “I fully expect to be Speaker” come November, she pronounced last month. Meanwhile the Pelosi juggernaut has managed to pass most of the bills brought by the Obama administration, including the health care overhaul, Wall Street regulations and unemployment benefits extensions. Next up on the economic agenda: tax changes and infrastructure development.

Source cited: http://www.forbes.com/profile/nancy-pelosi