<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Market Spirit Network &#187; Activists</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/category/activists/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.marketspirit.net</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:23:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Volunteering Your Time</title>
		<link>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2010/02/25/volunteering-your-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2010/02/25/volunteering-your-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptive marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passport to fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[todays escapes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2010/02/25/volunteering-your-time/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that donating your time as a volunteer lets you make your community stronger as well as assisting the needy. Scheduling this kind of event can be difficult, and let's not forget that's free time that could be used to do some good. And you'll have more fun volunteering with your friends from work pitching in right along with you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Volunteering; coming together as a community, and helping the poor in the vicinity. But organizing this kind of event is not as simple as one would hope, and arranging specific activities can easily take up free time better used to do some good. Of course, when volunteering becomes a team effort with friends or co-workers, it will be far more fun. This is a call, then, for other companies to look to the example of firms like Connecticut&#8217;s Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as shopping programs including <a href="http://www.MVQ-SAVEACE.com">SavingsAce</a> designed to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing tackles the organizational necessities so that its employees have the time to help the local community. Initiatives like these were always rare, limited activities &#8212; but this has come to be seen as a bare minimum. To take one example, Adaptive Marketing has offered employees opportunities to participate in everything from running shoe recycling efforts to local tree-planting weekends. With all pertinent information &#8212; date, location, time, specifics of event, etc &#8212; publically announced it is a simple matter for staff members to set aside the time they&#8217;d volunteer and what program they&#8217;d join.</p>
<p>Making sure volunteers have their say in what activities are available is also important. Staff from Adaptive Marketing, the company that offers the program SavingsAce, choose from among a great many initiatives. Members of staff may find themselves promoting environmental initiatives et cetera. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers have the chance to use their time in meaningful, important ways and have fun joining in the process.</p>
<p>As a rule when businesses ask their members of staff to think about volunteering at local schools or homeless shelters, it is often during an individual event or a regular task. Members of staff may well say they don&#8217;t have the free time, but usually even they can often set aside the hours to lend a hand with an event requiring just a single day. It&#8217;s common practice for business firms to assist the people living near their base of operations. Like many other companies, Adaptive Marketing sponsors volunteer initiatives to support the people of its hometown and to generate goodwill within the local community by the actions of its employees. Helping around your home town leaves you feeling like a better person &#8212; exactly what you need, of course, to motivate members of staff both in their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too. Encouraging your staff members to find the time to volunteer becomes its own reward.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2010/02/25/volunteering-your-time/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Braving the Courts</title>
		<link>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2009/07/03/braving-the-courts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2009/07/03/braving-the-courts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Evangelism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man and Van]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man with a van]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man with van]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[van and man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2009/07/03/braving-the-courts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the fourth week in June and that can mean solely one thing. Wimbledon is present! It&#8217;s the 14 days in the yr when people can find their tennis rackets, find their addidas attire and endure the inescapable rain to brush up on their back hand and volley. Man and Van Wimbledon is dedicated to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s the fourth week in June and that can mean solely one thing. Wimbledon is present! It&#8217;s the 14 days in the yr when people can find their tennis rackets, find their addidas attire and endure the inescapable rain to brush up on their back hand and volley. Man and Van Wimbledon is dedicated to supplying the most competent and economical service acquirable even when SW19 satiated with tourists. Man and Vans, London&#8217;s leading light removal service, is established in South West London and actually is happy to assist its neighbours with any light removals they might have. <a href="http://www.manandvans.com/">Man with Van</a> Wimbledon may be too occupied to enter the courts this summer but here at Man and Vans head office we&#8217;re highly overexcited about Wimbledon&#8217;s new Centre Court protective roof. Although Man and Van Wimbledon will do work in the rain, Rafael, Roger and Andy have never been too enthusiastic about braving heavy rain. luckily this summer there&#8217;ll be no need for Cliff Richards&#8217; services as, from the 17th May, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Association has been using its new retractable roof. Health and Safety tests on the court were led by the names Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters, who revelled in an exhibition game of mixed doubles as the inevitable rain patted the roof as it retracted. </p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2009/07/03/braving-the-courts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>If the Water is Polluted, Ever Wonder What is in it?</title>
		<link>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2008/06/30/if-the-water-is-polluted-ever-wonder-what-is-in-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2008/06/30/if-the-water-is-polluted-ever-wonder-what-is-in-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2008/06/30/if-the-water-is-polluted-ever-wonder-what-is-in-it/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to discuss a few issues we have been reading in the mass media about the kinds of stuff in our rivers. Forget about the DDT and all the pesticides from Industry, we need to look at our own lives and in our own mirror. Because when it comes to citizenry, most have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to discuss a few issues we have been reading in the mass media about the kinds of stuff in our rivers. Forget about the DDT and all the pesticides from Industry, we need to look at our own lives and in our own mirror. Because when it comes to citizenry, most have no right to complain. Insect repellants and chemicals were found in the water. The kind you spray on bushes around the house and in the house foggers that come in aeresol. This was found in 74% of all the major rivers and of tests in more than 40 states. Fragrances like perfume and cologne found in 27% of rivers. Caffeine? Yep, in 70% of the rivers tested and in very high concentrations compared with other chemicals. How does this get in?</p>
<p>Coffee Grounds in the flower bed. Wasted coffee pot coffee poured into the sink, and unfiltered in sewer treatment plant since it&#8217;s weight is similar to that of water. And obviously nevr thoguht of as a big issue. Think of all the fish swimming late? Hyper fish, might be harder to catch? So folks, we need to look at our actions as citizens beofre condeming good businesses who work extremely hard to follow both the letter and concept of the law.</p>
<p>I have seen people throw cigarrettes while driving through the desert onto the highway in fire problematic areas in the middle of July. I have seen kids throw trash on the road from the sidewalk in broad daylight and no one even say anything. I have seen people dump soapy buckets of car wash water in the gutter, instead of tossing it on the lawn. I have seen center dividers with grass in the middle over fertilized by city governments and the water run all night over watering and washing it into the gutter. Before we condemn businesses, let us look at what we citizens are doing?</p>
<p>If we love this country and wish to have the law enforced upon every business then surely we as citizens can take on the responsibility to not throw trash out the window and to walk the walk. We cannot allow hypocritic attitudes to permeate the whole of society. Because if no one cares anymore, we have nothing. Next time you want to pollute, think about how valuable the water supply is, how important it is for the city to look and exactly why it is you expect people to spend their tourism dollars in your town. Dirty towns do not draw in tourists. Do not ask what the government will do to clean up the world, ask your self.</p>
<p>I hope everyone takes this article personally. My company does our part as do most companies, yet I do not see the same being done by the people making the most noise. Mr. and Mrs. Environmentalist, you too need to do your part. If you are complaining about the environment, then why pollute the world with children who do not care? Teach them to respect their surroundings in the home, yard and out in the real world. If you cannot take care of yourself, your actions and your own children, then kindly be quiet.</p>
<p>Recently I saw an extremely liberal American woman driving a 1970 Volvo wagon which leaks oil, is exempt from the stringent new vehicle emissions like the SUV that Jesus would have to drive to bring with him all his disciples, it makes me wonder, what on Earth they are thinking. Certainly not the Earth? Yet the Volvo had more than enough bumper stickers to alert me of how to live my life and what and who to save?</p>
<p>No one wants a dirty environment, everyone wants clean air and water, yet the people making the noise sometimes create unreal situations, blow them out of proportion to make a headline, use the media&#8217;s need to create controversy to sell news to promote ads, while never cleaning up their own act. Look what this has done to our country. It is dividing it, and all the while enforcing some of the environmental problems is the least of the real problem. Without a reality check on those squeeky wheels which also exist and pollute, create and bring into the world people with such lax attitudes that they could care less about anyone else besides themselves. I would like to argue this point with someone on the other side, because I have been to every state and every city over ten thousand population in the country now and can honestly say most of the liberal argument is bogus and it is not real. The theory is good and solid on the environmental side, but the actions usually are not. Many of the followers are not minding their own business, yet tell everyone else to mind theirs.</p>
<p>I find those on the left fringe and I am not talking about the caring folks which believe in helping thier fellow man who is unable to help themselves, because clearly those issues are not debated by even the farthest right wing radicals of the other side. I wish to argue point by point every single issue that a far left fringe can come up with. I feel much of the rhetoric is in error and much of the scientific data is botched. Although original intent is most excellent indeed, they methods and lawsuits are all wrong along with the behavior of many of those so dedicated to the movement of cleaners air, water and endangerd species.</p>
<p>From the forest issues causing 120 thousand pounds of underbrush fuel to build up and cause the hotest fires that are so fierce they burn down the old growth instead of clear out the normal 40,000 lbs per acre underbrush. I submit to you that the liberal hikers and nature enthusiats are spreading the Redwood pathogens on their tires, hiking boots and clothing. That the Forest policy of the past is just as much to blame for the destroying of the rain forests and forests than anything else. We need a reality check.</p>
<p>I would like to hear a discussion of this along with why the ELF Environmental Groups are resorting to International Terrorism, burning down structures and homes to help the environment, because last time I checked it appears that smoke from such events causes polluted air in itself. I would like the World Think Tank to discuss these issues and come up with a plan everyone can live with in the freedom we have been gifted by our ancestors.</p>
<div style="float: right; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: white; background-color: white"><img height="90" width="63" src="http://ezinearticles.com/members/mem_pics/Lance-Winslow_4195.jpg" border="0" alt="Lance Winslow - EzineArticles Expert Author"></div>
<p>&#8220;Lance Winslow&#8221; &#8211; Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; <a href="http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/" rel="nofollow">www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.marketspirit.net/archives/2008/06/30/if-the-water-is-polluted-ever-wonder-what-is-in-it/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
