What is TheGreenRocket.com?

TheGreenRocket.com is an online community that began April 2008 with a mission to build a hypothetical “green” bridge where individuals interested in crossing it can interact with those along it, and those already on the other side.  In other words, TheGreenRocket.com aims to create an avenue for discussion between all persons interested in the green movement–ranging from personal to professional interest and action.

The site provides exclusive content about green topics across the world in the form of articles, interviews and resource guides. The most important part of taking action is by defeating inaction. Lets keep this important dialog alive!

How do You Get Involved?

The first step is, of course, visiting the site and reading the About page! That means you’re curious about who we are and what we’re up to in the green community. We appreciate your visit and hope you return for more!

Every content release offers the chance for you to add your voice to the green discussion. At the end of each article is a comment area. Leave your name, email (for private use only!), website if you have one, and your thoughts and click “Submit Comment”. It’s as easy as that!

If you are a writer and wish to contribute a piece to TheGreenRocket.com please contact us with your site link for us to see examples of your work. IF you do not have a site, that’s okay–contact us anyways and we’ll work something out through personal emails. You can read more about the submission process by visiting the Submitting to TGR page.

Who is Piloting the Rocket?

There are two individuals rocketeering TheGreenRocket.com at the current time.

Nicole McCallum is a spinning and group fitness instructor and an Honours Economics and Global Studies student at Wilfrid Laurier University, specializing in natural resource and development economics, as well as ecotourism.  Nicole is passionate about everything green, as she believes nature’s services can be used more efficiently to generate sustainable development in all areas of the world.

Nicole is also a vegetarian, avid traveler and opportunity-taker with extensive leadership training, as well as a lover of sunshine, miniature things (especially kittens), rain, love, people, animals (especially kittens), fitness, yoga, soccer, and laughter, amongst many other things (including kittens).

She lives by the idea that even the smallest of decisions can have a great effect; thus any individual CAN impact the world and a group of committed individuals can certainly change it.  Thus, she strives for the goal of achieving sustainable and equitable development internationally by living as the unreasonable woman, as described by Georgina Bernardette Shaw:

The reasonable woman adapts herself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to herself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable women.

Nuno Teixeira is a long-time web addict with a growing interest in green movements and green culture. He is an Honours Fine Arts and English graduate from the University of Waterloo and Web Certificate Program graduate from Conestoga College. He has seven years experience in community development–both personal and professional–and has spent the last three years exploring the potential of the web with creative works in webcomics, video podcasts and new ways to build communities incorporating web media applications.

Nuno is a meataterian and loves writing in the third person. Due to persistent health issues involving food allergies to things like pork and milk, along with a strict vegetarian partner, Nuno has opened up his mind to alternative food sources. He now considers himself half-vegetarian and actually desired his weekly Greek salad WITHOUT chicken ever Friday for lunch. Rice milk has come to the rescue for early morning breakfast cereal and spinach has found a special place in his heart right next to raw broccoli–both vegetables avoided similar to the way vampires reject garlic.

Nuno thinks kittens are cute as well, but has a strong respect for ecology in general. At an early age, before settling into art and writing, Nuno wanted to pursue a career as a Veterinarian or a Palaeontologist. After discovering you’d have to cut into live animals for the first option, and discovering that no live animals existed to cut into in the second option, this led him to be quite content drawing or writing about them instead.

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