Energy, Foreclosures and Audiologists

What the heck do energy, foreclosures and audiologists have in common?

They are all new categories in the uscity.net national website link directory!

USCITY.NET added a few new categories this year in an effort to simplify finding what you want in our directory. The most popular category we have added is Energy – we have numerous resources for energy conservation, gas, solar and wind energy listed in every state.

Usually I am excited to add a new category, but adding Foreclosures wasn’t so. Realizing that this is what many people are facing and are interested in, we added it but it is something I hope not many people need to use.

Other additions this year are: Broadband, Flea Markets and Audiologists.

If you would like to be listed in our directory, please click here and find the best category match for your business and join us!

What Going Green Means to USCity.Net

USCITY.NET added a new category in December that we hope will help us all. “Go Green” is the new category and it is listed on all of our state pages - Alabama through Wyoming. I gave the job of researching the category to Carol. She decided on the category name, content and any subcategories we might need. Carol tells me she learned from this and she says: “What I do to go green is recycle, ride my bike to the store, shop on the internet (at uscity.net, of course) and turn off lights and open window to conserve energy.”

After I gave her the project, I sent out an informal survey, mostly to our employees, I asked them “What do you think of when you hear “Go Green” and what does it mean to you?” Here are a few of the answers I received.

From Our Seniors:

Going Green.... for me is beginning the process of eliminating products we use that might be harmful to the elements or to ourselves and our families. It is a little more difficult as a senior to “let go” of all the “tried and true” products that we have used for over a 1/2 century, but we are doing it. Probably the older population will be the “foot draggers” in this new environmentally safe era.

When I think of someone that has “gone green”, I figure the products they use probably don’t work as good as the “non green” but are safer. I know that’s not a good attitude, but it’s honest. I am slowly, “going green”. What it means to me is that the entire world is going to be in agreement on at least one thing, we need to clean things up for our grandchildren and their children!!!

From the Boomers:

When I think of go green I think of how happy I am that I bought my Prius two years ago, long before the gas got to this point. I also think of recycling, which I do and conserving energy in other ways - but definitely the number one thought is my Prius.

I think it means doing stuff instead of owning stuff! And doing stuff without using Earth’s resources – like biking, hiking, swimming.

Solar Power and recycling are the first things that I think of when I hear “go green”. My biggest heartbreak is what we have done to nature, in particular the waters – like the ocean and the lakes and springs and the piney forests (I’m a Florida girl).

I visited Denmark a year ago and it looked like half of their population was riding bikes instead of taking cars. That was going green to me.

From the Young Adults:

From a recent college grad: I think of the green recycling bin that I'm going to have to put out to the road when I move back home. I enjoy recycling items such as the grocery bags at Publix, but when it comes to recycling bottles and boxes at home I don't necessary do it. It is something you forget to do after you live in a dorm, or apartments for a few years.

I think about not buying stuff that has a lot of packaging – even though it makes my life easier – I am using fewer paper plates, napkins and frozen dinners. I am eating more fresh vegetables and fruit and that is healthier too!

I think about how I am riding my bike more and driving less. Going Green to me means hybrid cars, recycling and of course “We have got to save the planet for our children’s children’s children.”

- (NOTE: This last sentence may have been a little tongue-in-cheek, I am pretty sure he was mimicking me!)

Our New ‘Giving’ Category

Giving Category

Seeing former President Bill Clinton on the Oprah Winfrey show gave me the idea to add a Giving category to uscity.net. He just wrote a whole book about what each individual can do as their small part. I believe that we can change the world by giving and plus it makes you feel good too. So, hopefully soon, we will have some great new links for everyone to click on that will show you ways that you can help and make a difference. Remember, each of us can contribute and change the world. It doesn't have to stay crazy like it is now. Only we can change it. So please - Give, give and give some more, of your time, your love and even your money.

Mary

Note from Pam: We also recently added Kiva – a non profit organization that extends small loans to entrepreneurs around the world. When we checked this site out, we were happy to find an internet café that needed a loan, we thought that since serving internet users is our business, this would be a good match for us. We wish Kiva and all the worthy small business owners good luck in their ventures. And thanks to Kiva for making it so easy.

Today's Ticket Update:

Spice Girls coming to Chicago and Boston – Bostonians and Chicagoans, the girls announced this morning the fantastic news that The Return of the Spice Girls world tour will be visiting both US cities in 2008. Boston concerts are at TD Banknorth on Jan. 30th and the DCU Center, Worcester, on the 31st, while the Chicago concerts are at the United Center on February 14th and 16th. Get ‘em soon - click here!

Have a Great Day All!

Hospice

We are pleased to announce that we have added a new category for Hospice organizations around the USA. If you are part of a Hospice organization or know of one in your area, please submit their website to us via our “reciprocal link” sign up. The Hospice sites do not have to add a link to us – we are doing this as a service to the communities they serve.

Adding a Link:
From the uscity.net front page , go to your state, using either the map or the drop down box in the upper left hand corner.

Once you are in your state, go to the Hospice category – you can either type “hospice” into the Search Categories box or just scroll down til you get to it.

Check to see if your hospice site is listed yet and if not, click on “ADD YOUR SITE”

Follow the directions from there. When you get to the keywords part, please type in COMMUNITY SERVICE and any other keywords you would like. If you have any problems, feel free to email us at link@uscity.net and we will be happy to help you out!


Tickets Update:
Shows on sale today include Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, U.S. Open of Supercross in Las Vegas, Disney's High School Musical, John Mellencamp, Monty Python's Spamalot, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Check these and thousands more out here. http://tickets.uscity.net/

New uscity.net Blog

Good Morning!

uscity.net has created this new blog to keep everyone informed on what's happening here at uscity.net.

We will also post ticket updates for our partner site - uscity.net ticket sales.

I hope everyone enjoys our new blog and please feel free to email us - contact@uscity.net - with any comments or suggestions to make us better.

Love to all,
Pam