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Welcome. It’s a New Year, it’s a new day, it’s a new RiverWired.com – your source for fresh ideas on how to make your life a little greener.

We know it’s dawning on everyone that the time has come to change the way we live on the earth. Forget cutting carbs -- it's time to cut carbons.

But how? What really works and what doesn’t? Which steps should we take first? And how on earth can we rev ourselves up to make any change at all – because change is hard and seems to take so much energy (the rarest resource of all)?

At RW, we don’t pretend to have all the answers. But what we do have is a gathering place for people to share their stories. We are like the square that used to be located in the center of every town ever populated in the world -- the hub where everyone gathered to find out what’s going on -- often by the river, which powered the mill, carried supplies in and out, and brought visitors with exotic news of distant towns.

Today’s village is wired. And today’s news comes in the form of Blogs and videos.

But one thing has not changed – and never will: the wisdom in the village comes from the people who live in it. At RW we are gathering the voices of people who put their money where their mouth is: they’re trying out new ways to live on the earth.

• Some are moving from the city to the country.
• Others are giving up cars for bikes.
• Or building green homes
• They are celebrities using their fame, and businesses using their products, to make the world a little better.
• Or college students bringing green-ish ideas to campus living.
• Or ordinary folks just trying to tread lightly to preserve the goodness of the earth for their kids, and their kids’ kids, too.

A lot of these tales are funny – hey, life is funny. And change is hard and often scary. So you may as well laugh – because “He who laughs, lasts.”

We hope you will share your tales of green-ish living (sometimes green-ish is good enough) at RiverWired.com. Tell us how you do it, how these changes affect your life, your relationships, your community, your world, your planet, your universe. Inspire us to take the journey with you—rollin’ on RiverWired: the place for good green fun.