- Please click on link to choose one of 12 Green Megatrend Categories you are already engaging in or would like to engage in. You may also click on link to see over 100 projects you can choose from within these categories. You can accumulate points for your community, environmental club and school.
- You can receive a leadership position in each one of the 12 categories. The following leadership positions are awarded based upon your total number of points in your community or school (from highest to lowest number of points). Communities are defined as neighborhoods or cities with 100,000 or less population.
- Environmental Hall of Fame Award - limited to one person in each of the 12 categories in every community on a yearly basis. Help us locate a deserving nominee in your community (send us links to their accomplishments).
- Hero of Planet Earth Award (For completing a Green Project)
- Green Team Manager (the person with the highest points)
- Green Team Coach (up to three coaches)
- Green Team Co-Captain (up to two co-captains)
- Green Team Position of Your Choice - from Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Hockey, Swimming, Track and Field or other (e.g., Pitcher, Quarterback, Forward, etc.)
- If you wish to raise money for your projects or environmental club there are several alternatives:
- See benefits you and your school or community receive for sponsoring your Community National Sustainability Association and Green Team.
- Green Team Stadium Owners. For the individuals who inspire people to become sponsors of your Green Team. Funds from sponsorships will support your green project. The sponsor benefits also. They become Green Team Stadium co-owners or partners with you. You also share a luxury suite together.
- The person with the largest number of sponsors receives the Golden Stadium Image that they share with their sponsors. They also receive the Most Deluxe Luxury Suite that they share with their sponsors.
- Green Team Stadium Luxury and Box Seat Owners: For individuals who inspire the next level of sponsorship for your Green Team. Sponsors can get luxury suites, box seats or regular seats. They partner with the sponsor in the Green Team Luxury and Box Seats Ownership. Yearly membership grants season tickets.
- See benefits you and your school or community receive for sponsoring your Community National Sustainability Association and Green Team.
- Start your own blog (e.g., on Blogger), Facebook page or My Space with your name followed by Green Team (e.g., JohnDoeGreenTeam.blogspot.com).
- List your category of contribution (Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Energy Efficiency, Gardening, Environmental Stewardship, etc.)
- Have someone take a photo of you with your project and attach it to your blog to validate your project.
- Scoring system: give yourself the points you deserve. Give yourself one point for every hour your spent on the project. Two points if you were very efficient during that hour (you be the judge). Three points if you were very innovative or creative (your can share your experience on your blog) or received recognition.
- Choose your Leadership Position. Add the image for your position onto your blog page.
- Additional leadership positions include giving the Hope Award to someone who has completed a green project (see logo), recognizing people for their good deeds (season tickets), helping others achieve their goals (8th Habit award), helping to moderate (Umpire or Referee). See images you can download here.
- Send us the link to your blog so we can post it under the city and state of your community.
- Update your blog, points and images as you add more projects.
- Whenever you help someone achieve points you get as many points as they do (cooperation is the essence of sustainability).
The National Green Team is not business as usual. We wish to inspire individuals to cooperate (helping someone else) as well as compete. This is a new paradigm and probably our biggest contribution. This is why the same number of points are given for cooperation as for competition.
We are creating a caring and nurturing community based upon the principles of compassionate clarity. We believe that all people should treat each other with Customer Care (i.e., Customer Service). We would like to treat you this way, and we would like you treat us and your fellow Green Team members this way. It would be a much better world if everyone treated each other this way.
We believe that too many creative geniuses are nipped in the bud because of a hostile environment. Therefore, authenticity but no bullying allowed.
We welcome positive feedback and validation. We welcome ideas to improve our programs and customer service in the spirit of humility and loving kindness. We are human beings, too, and will be more creative and respond to you with greater kindness on your behalf if we are treated with kindness.
Any great ideas you have are welcome. You will be acknowledged for ideas we adopt (and receive points).
