Welcome to U Gotta Go Green!
Welcome to Southwest Florida's eco-networking, resource and information-sharing website. We hope that you enjoy our magazine-style, news digest format and find lots of interesting ways to get involved in the burgeoning green community. As a comprehensive web portal and online community for everything and anything Green, Sustainable and Eco-friendly in the SWFL region, we encourage you to stop in and check out what’s new on a daily basis. You can think of us the Green Facebook for Southwest Florida where you can come and connect with others who are interested in your opinions, products and services! We can't wait for you to jump in and join the conversation.
Please bear with us as we continue to develop and add features and functionality to the site. We expect that there will be some growing pains for a while but hope that you see the tremendous power and potential of the UGottaGoGreen.com website. We not only invite your input, comments, suggestions and feedback but are counting on your active participation and involvement. We need you, the community, to make this a dynamic, useful and effective tool for positive environmental and economic impact in our local area!
Our vision is to become a nexus of communication, interactive collaboration and activity for all of the important and pressing sustainability, energy and climate issues that are affecting each and every one of us here in Southwest Florida. We see a tremendous need to connect and co-ordinate initiatives arising out of several different realms:
- Business and Commerce
- Local Government
- Academia/Education
- Scientific Community
- Residents/Visitors
Only with more cooperative interaction and communication can we hope to create the synergy required to make substantive changes. We need to join forces, collaborate, support and promote one another and make sure that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. Together, we can and will make a difference. Won’t you please join us on the path to a “Greener” future?
Here’s what you can do right now to help make this a thriving and empowered community:
- Advertise on our site to promote your Green business
- Enter your business with an “Enhanced” listing on the “U Gotta Go Green Business Directory”
- Sign up for our “Green Insider” Newsletter
- Add our RSS feed to your feed reader or website
- Join our Facebook fan page or Blog page at at http://bit.ly/UGottaGoGreenFacebook
- Tweet about our new website, an event or article
- Follow us on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/UGottaGoGreen.com
- Link to us on your website or blogroll
- Add our widget to your website or blog
- Make a comment about one of our articles using the comment box at the end of our posts
- Join our Meetup.com/UGottaGoGreen Activity group at http://Meetup.com/UGottaGoGreen
- Join our Online community at http://heyGottaGoGreen.ning.com, complete your member profile, and customize your own home page!
- Add your “Green, Eco-friendly, Environmentally Sustainable special interest or action group or, non-profit organization to our http://heyUGottaGoGreen.ning.com/Groups online community “GreenGroups” listing
- Add a Blog entry, brief article or opinion commentary on our http://heyUGottaGoGreen.ning.com/Blog “Blog”
- Start a discussion on a forum topic on our http://heyUGottaGoGreen.ning.com/Forum “Forum”
- Create and/or discover a topic–related video and submit it to our http://heyUGottaGoGreen.ning.com/Videos online community “Member Contributed Videos” section
Again, we welcome you to UGottaGoGreen.com and are hopeful and excited about the possibilities that lie ahead when the community unifies it's efforts to become more Green, Eco-friendly and Sustainable in Southwest Florida!
Please feel free to contact us at info@UGottaGoGreen.com for more information, comments or suggestions.
Yours in Hope,
The U Gotta Go Green Team
Comments
Jason Szumlanski
This looks like a great idea. Green is hip, hot, happening, and helpful! Florida is falling behind the rest of the nation in green thinking, particularly in the area of renewable energy. Florida has long been a leader in solar pool heating installations, but we are not keeping up with the rest of the nation and world with adoption of green technologies. There are dedicated people in Southwest Florida who have supported solar over the years. It’s time to get the word out and spread the news!
Best of luck with the U Gotta Go Green website!
U Gotta Go Green
Thanks for your comments Jason and also for your early support! We are continuing to work on getting all aspects of the site up and running to full functionality but have encountered some stumbling blocks along the way…we appreciate your patience!
And yes, I do agree with you that Florida lags behind much of the rest of the country and the rest of the world for that matter, in being forward-thinking about the pressing environmental issues that confront us.
We need to get that “critical mass” of individuals together whose unity and commitment can lead the forward charge and then keep the momentum going!
LET’S DO IT!!!!
P.S. Why don’t you join us at the 350.org 10.10.10 Global Party planning gathering at Books A Million in Naples at 7:00 pm on Thursday April 29th (and bring everyone you know who could be a mover and shaker in helping to make this a significant and high profile event!)