Ellen Bush's Comments

Hello Ellen:
Thank you for writing and for your support of the elephant. I will look forward to talking with you more about CIFAE and the elephants in SE Asia. Yes, I would like to join the group that you mentioned in your email and will look them up soon.
Wishing you the best,
Ron

HI Ellen: Thanks for signing me up for another on-line conversation place. Do I know what to do with them all? I have so much to share and try to do my piece with all the social, environmental, political, economic issues imploding upon us. I gave a talk to a group of elders living in a retirement building where I am an attendant to a 95 year old man who may be a role model for being an activist, although he doesn't share much during my time with him. He did show up for the presentation I gave on Spiritual Eldering/Age-ing to Sage-ing and said he was going to Alaska next month to celebrate the 50 anniversary of Alaska's statehood. He was one of 50 people selected to be on the initial commission that worked on statehood for Alaska. During my presentation I talked about the Gray Panthers, the elder activist group from the 70s, which is still in existence and told the group, that if they are looking for issues to involved their lives, than maybe I'll check out the Gray Panthers web site. Odd, now I may be organizing elders. They are all somewhat concerned about what's happening to the planet and what we are leaving to our grandchildren. Many, maybe most of us, slept through it all not thinking it was our concern, after all, while the government and the corps were destroying the planet and building more and more nuclear weapons, we are only innocent consumers of many worthless material goods. My real intention is to bring spirituality into their lives. So, they asked for a meditation before we parted and we'll be meeting again next month. Well, I ended up sharing a bit. Have a bright Chanukah and Xmas and a joyous New Year.

Hi Ellen, thanks for the comments, they should be visible now.
I'm not a gardener. The greens I freeze I get from the farmers at the Haile Village Farmer's Market on Saturdays. I belong to a CSA, Plowshares. It's nice having organic collards in July!

Thanks Ellen, I'll check out the group. I read your profile and you sound very happy with life. Very inspiring. My work with at-risk youth is about creating hope and inspiring them as well.

Hi, I am related to Mike he's my pop, and yes I am into racing bikes I just got a new one this weekend its actually a dirt bike a KX 250 I am planning on getting used to the bike then starting slow and working my way into motocross

Thanks for the warm welcome. I will check out the discussion on environmental concerns.

Well, I could meet you and pick up a sample of the material to give to my screen printer. All I would need is something the size of a t-shirt. I would be very discreet and wouldn't disclose the product name or anything like that. I would just give him the sample and ask if it could be printed on or not. As far as the membership to ASI goes, like I said, I'm on the distributor end not the supplier end so I don't really know what your cost would be there, but I can tell you that as a distributor my cost is about $275 per month for the product search engine and the website catalog. Check out their website and give them a call or send them an email. Green Products are very hot these days and I'm sure they would be very receptive to talking with you.

Could they be screen printed as you would do on a t-shirt? I have a screen printer in town that may be able to shed some light on it if I could get him a sample of the material. If a logo can be printed on them, and if you are able to get mass production facilities in place, then I would recommend joining the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) as a supplier. That way your product would be in front of thousands of distributors such as myself and the customers of those distributors as well. ASI provides a link between suppliers and distributors such as myself. As an ASI supplier, your product will be on the distributors product/supplier search database (which is where I go to search for products when my customers ask for them), plus your product will be listed on distributors websites on-line catalogs, and you can even get your product listed in their "Green Catalog" which thousands of distributors buy to send to their customers. As a distributor member, I'm not really familiar with the details of what's involved in supplier memberships, but I can tell you that if you want to get your product in front of thousands of promotional products distributors, that's the way to go. Their website is www.asicentral.com. Let me know how else I can help.
Rick

Hi Ellen,

I sell promotional products imprinted with my customer's logos on them. Your product sounds like a great idea, and I'm sure it will sell well. Will you have the ability to imprint a logo on them and if so, could the logo be visible on the outside of the trash can?

Rick

Hi Ellen, I'm a promotional products distributor and am interested in hearing more about your new green product.
Rick

Thanks for the note Ellen. Sounds like we are kindred spirits in our love of nature. I look forward to getting to know you and the rest of the Zoobird clan though everyone's posts. All the best, Lars

Yes I have. Mostly crazy racoon encounters. They really are small bears and they act like it too. When I was in High School in North Carolina my friends and I would take nothing but rice, crisco, and cornmeal and disappear for a week at a time. I would just drink strait from the mountain streams and never worried about parasites. The were so many trout in some of the streams fishing was almost no fun. I look foward to taking my daughter on a trip like that when she is older. How about you?

I have not been out west to hike yet. I do most of my hiking in Florida and the Appalachian Mnts. I would love to see the Rockies though. I will be in Ocala for 12 weeks this summer for Fire School and I plan on doing some sections of the Florida trail that run through the National Forest. Have you done any of them? Can you reccomend some of the trails if you have.

Ellen,

Name is the last thing on my list. I am joining a CSA in MO with the understanding from them that I may be starting my own place.

If you want to know more email me: joe@tittiger.com

Thanks!

I have located some land in both Kansas and MO that I will be looking into in the Spring. So if anyone is interested in joining my as of yet unformed community contact me.