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Green Scout Report
New York, NY
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Thank you for stopping by! Welcome to the Green Scout Report! We are a daily blog that provides an informed, professionally edited perspective on a green, new world.
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Most of you are way too young to remember the musical of this name, but when I first heard the title, I knew it would stick with me forever. It's applicable so often! And one of those times was thi...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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It's been almost two months since I've written a blog post here. I took seriously the fact that I had reached my original goal and so was "promoted" to blogger emeritus, but honestly, I didn't mean...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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That's what Corey said as we threw our arms around fellow STSer Nicole Sherwin after already having met and thrown our arms around Nicole Dunn!
The setting was the Eco Gift Festival in Santa Monic...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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OK, I now know the true and literal meaning of "my head is spinning," because if mine could be, it would be. The last few weeks have been a blur, filled with so many exciting things that if I wante...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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We survived our first big TV gig. Thank god it was two hours of filming for two and a half minutes of programming. My daughter is a natural. She looks beautiful, speaks with passion, a smile lighti...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Apropos of my last post (I know, I'm only supposed to do this once a month, but this is a goodie) (and by the way, thanks to everyone for your suggestions), yesterday Corey and I had a ball doing s...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I probably should be following in Angela's footsteps and trying out for Tim Gunn's show on an emergency basis, but no way do I have the nerve for that! Why the bra shopping has to be part of every ...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Even though I reached my goal of launching Celebrate Green!, Angela says I can keep on blogging, but I'm going to limit it to once a month or when I absolutely, positively, can't stand to wait one ...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I've been a member of a number of online groups over the last five years. Some have been great, others not so much.
Just want to give credit to Angela for starting Savor the Success and keeping hi...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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That five minutes on Martha Stewart radio that I posted about last week turned into twenty! Poor Corey was all prepared to stuff everything possible about Green Halloween and Celebate Green into fi...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I'm still here today so can share the news that Corey is going to be on Martha Stewart Live satellite radio on Monday morning. OK, so it's not the TV show, but as soon as I finish typing this, I'm ...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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So maybe you all saw this a.m. that I'm moving on from blogging here when Angela can find someone to take my place. That's what I get for coming up with such a short term goal. I probably should ha...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I was all prepared to write a thrilling description of having sold dozens of copies of Celebrate Green! yesterday at Salmon Days. Yes, Salmon Days, an annual celebration here in Issaquah (ISS A KWA...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I did it! I got the blog tour for Celebrate Green! set up and going. We've got more than 30 bloggers who have pledged to write about us or do a book review between today, October 1 and October 17 (...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I've used the analogy of birthing Celebrate Green! ever since I sent it to the printer. But tomorrow really is its birth day, the day it is "officially" launched into the world, the day we have bee...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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So a week from tomorrow is the date I had scheduled for launch. (And I guess that means the end of this blog?)
When I started I thought we'd be doing a big birth of the book bash, but luckily I ha...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Step one of the PR campaign for Celebrate Green! was to set the wheels in motion for recruiting 500 villagers to support our efforts. In two days, I've recruited 60 willing people. Haven't even had...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Yup, that's me looking exhausted after two nights of worried sleep and an hour drive to get to the place where 3000+ copies of Celebrate Green! were delivered this morning.
Our babies really hav...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I had a number of conversations with two trucking companies that both reassured me countless times that 3000 copies of Celebrate Green! would arrive at 10:30 a.m. this morning. They didn't.
Fortun...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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To anyone who plans to self-publish a book or, have the publishing part thrust on you as we unwittingly did, let me tell you that the road will be rough. Every step you take will inevitably require...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Corey and I were invited to have a booth and speak at Green Edmonds (a city north of Seattle), an event organized by Green for Good We write montly articles for their newsletter and are their "Gree...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Oh my gosh, this week has flown by with my desk piling higher and higher, my email in-box about to explode. So many details. Like this one.
It turns out that when you send review copies to SOME bl...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Oh my gosh, only launched the website on Friday and already things are popping. Had an email today from someone who said, "My Christmas shopping is done. Just ordered 10 books." I didn't even know ...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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This will be a shortie, since I wrote yesterday, but I can't help myself. Going live with www.CelebrateGreen.NET is biggest step we've taken since writing the book, discovering the publisher was go...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I'm sitting here about to revive a childhood habit, biting my nails. We are hours away from going live with the Celebrate Green! website. Actually, it was ready this morning, then I got anothe...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I'll just come right out and say it. We have no marketing budget for Celebrate Green! But that's OK. I'm sticking with PR, something I'm familiar with and that costs zippo. I enjoy coming up with s...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I assumed that getting our book, Celebrate Green! up on Amazon would be a simple process. After all, there are thousands and thousands of books listed there. For me, it's been an exercise in frustr...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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In the past, I've generally used a template-based service like Dynamic Web Builder to create and maintain my websites. While I don't want to know any more than I absolutely have to about the back e...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Happy Monday!
I just had to post this photo of my nephew's little girl, that I took yesterday at a family event. Seems like a great way to start the week!
The title of this post ("more of the s...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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I've lost a lot of sleep this week over the printer's errors. I won't go into the whole thing except to say that it took four tries to not only get the proof right, but ensure that I was LOOKING AT...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Received the proof of Celebrate Green! yesterday. Luckily, I'd had one sent to Jeff, our designer too. His arrived before mine and he spotted major problems. In several sections, text had mysteriou...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Back from vacation. Faced with dozens of possibilities about what could be done, I need to focus on what can be done.
Quick brain dump for Celebrate Green! launch (I know there will be mor...
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The Green Year
Renton, WA
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Project: Preparing to officially launch our book, Celebrate Green! Goal date: October 1
About 18 months ago, my daughter Corey (you'll be reading more about her) wanted to run an idea by me. The H...
