Wellness Group

I have decided to start a health and environmental wellness, or Green Group, at my work. Myself and another lady I work with started talking about it and I put it into motion and have been working hard on it for the past 3 weeks. I am very excited and I cannot wait to start giving people the knowledge and resources they need to start treating themselves and the planet better. I just hope they start becoming as excited about it as I am, and actually implement it into their daily lives.

I have created a group of 5 people so far, and we call ourselves The Greenovators. We are launching our group on Earth Day, the 22nd. I have made new recycling signs for all of our bins that actually have lists of what can go inside since everyone I've spoke to have no idea what can be recycled and what bin it needs to go into. (It was slightly shocking to me to learn that some people really just have no idea how to recycle, I pull stuff out of the garbage all the time that can be recycled.) I have made signs for all of our employee bathrooms and conference rooms to remind people to turn out the lights, and I have set up a location for people to drop off all of their plastic bags, to either be reused or I will take to recycle when it gets full. On friday the 26th, it is Arbor Day and we have had a local resource company called Green Diamond donate 50 packets of Douglas Fir Tree seeds to us, that we will be passing out to employees with a little note about ourselves and the importance of planting trees. 

We have a central cite on our employee portal dedicated to us that we will use to post articles and links for people to  learn more. Along with posting articles about health, exercise, and also recipes and information about nutritional facts. The list goes on and we are all very excited to get this started.

We have many plans for fundraisers and events to do throughout the year. I would love to get people to do a 5k!! That is one goal for the year. We are planning on working together with our Relay for Life team and maybe doing a Zumba night fundraiser. The ideas are endless :)

So that is what I have been working on for the past three weeks, and I am very excited to get this group started and I just hope all the work pays off and that people receive it well and get involved!