Friday, September 3, 2010

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Get Involved…Help Out The Orangutans!

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Thanks for visiting my blog. The focus of my blog is and has been for nearly the last year business development for the service industry. While that is the focus and mission of the blog, I also have a passion for giving back and for helping the environment as much as possible.
One of [...]

Continue Reading → 23 November 2009

Unlikely Best Friends

Hafa Adai from Guam! It has been a great trip here, both business wise and sight-seeing as well. I will post photos when I get back to the island of Oahu. I was checking my email the other day and was sent a link to this video. As I watched it, it was amazing to [...]

Continue Reading → 31 July 2009

Past Posts Worth Reading Again

An Update on the Progress of my Blog
I have hit quite a few milestones over the past 226 days my blog has been live. I have written over 100 blog posts and reached my highest unique visitor day to date: 637 just last week. Going back over my posts, I saw three that I want [...]

Continue Reading → 24 July 2009

Orangutans Take A Swim in Rungan River, Borneo

I came across an article about 12 orangutans who were seen swimming in the Rungan River inBorneo. What is so special about that? Orangutans are known to fear water due to predators such as crocodiles. However, these orangutans have been rescued from the deforestation of their home and allowed to live in a protected rainforest [...]

Continue Reading → 17 June 2009

SocialVibe to a Great Cause

Have you heard of SocialVibe? I’ll be honest, I haven’t. But after doing some research, I am pretty impressed with the concept. SocialVibe is a way for individuals or businesses to volunteer and donate to a great cause simply by posting a widget on their website and telling people about it. When people click on [...]

Continue Reading → 16 June 2009

Willie Smits Saves A Rainforest

This Ted Talk is a great example of someone working to help a cause greater than themselves. It is something I believe all people and companies should work to do. Willie Smits has devoted his life to rebuilding the rain forests and saving the orangutans. Through his work, he has been able to help people [...]

Continue Reading → 25 May 2009

Grapes For Apes

I absolutely love orangutans and want to help them as much as possible. I have posted before about how I adopted Dodo as a Christmas gift for a family member, and have written about how they are quickly going extinct if us humans do not do something about it. Well, there is a charity doing [...]

Continue Reading → 12 February 2009

Marley & Me

 
Over the holidays , I went with my family to see the movie Marley & Me, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. From the commercials, it seemed to be a happy comedy about a man and his best friend, a yellow lab named Marley. 
Well, that wasn’t all it was…
Based on the Book, Marley & Me
For [...]

Continue Reading → 29 December 2008

A Great Gift Idea that is a Triple Win!

I was thinking about the holidays and gift giving and what I should buy. And then I stopped. And I thought about who else lives on this planet. What about them? Because people dominate the Earth, it is up to us to help out the other animals survive in the world that we continue to [...]

Continue Reading → 6 December 2008