EarthTurns.com, announced that it has partnered with Carbonfund.org to offset more than its share of carbon emissions. Carbonfund.org is the country’s foremost carbon reduction and offset group. While incessantly working to reduce its own carbon presence, EarthTurns.com will offset carbon emissions created by general business operations and shipping products by investing in the planting of trees.

EarthTurns.com has always been committed to environmental causes. From its inception, EarthTurns.com has donated a portion of its profits to various charitable organizations. By fighting global climate change and partnering with Carbonfund.org to reduce carbon emissions, EarthTurns.com hopes to be a leader in the internet retail industry and to set an example to other small businesses that they can make a difference in the fight against global warming.

About EarthTurns.com

EarthTurns.com sells American made health care supplements, shampoos, soaps and other all natural home and bath supplies. We believe that using all natural and organic products is healthy for people, pets and the planet. EarthTurns.com is inspired to make a difference in the world, and donates a portion of all profits to various environmental, children and other social causes.

About Carbonfund.org

Carbonfund.org is the country’s leading carbon reduction and offset organization, making it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact. Carbon offsets enable individuals and businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions they are responsible for in their everyday lives by investing in renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects where they are most cost effective.

Eric Carlson, Executive Director
Carbonfund.org
240-293-2700
www.carbonfund.org

Daniel Williams, president of San Diego Lending Solutions, Inc., announces the creation of a new local mortgage lending business. While there are many banks and mortgage professionals in the San Diego marketplace, Williams helps clients through what can be a very confusing and stressful part of their life, buying or refinancing a home through proper mortgage planning and analysis.

Williams, who is a certified mortgage planning specialist and a certified liability analyst, says client education and truly valuing client relationships is the cornerstone of San Diego Lending Solutions. “When people often apply for a mortgage through a bank or lending company, they are treated as a number on their application,” says Williams. “Additionally, when applicants don’t have the financial education when they apply for a line of credit or mortgage, and they can fall into the trap of predatory lending practices or worse, foreclosure. Taking the time to educate and develop trust with clients will help them succeed and achieve financial stability.” Williams also creates alliances with realtors, CPAs, and attorneys to educate them on how mortgages affect their clients and their area of expertise.

Additionally, Williams encourages current and prospective homeowners to take the lead on their future and perform a health check on their finances and a review of their mortgage at the start of the new year. Financial goals like saving more money and reducing debt consistently make the list of most Americans’ top New Year’s resolutions. But this cannot be achieved without a realistic financial check-up to understand where a consumer is at currently which can determine where they want to be. “Just like an annual appointment with an accountant or tax professional, it is also important to check your financial well-being,” says Williams. “A change in family status such as a new baby or a child going to college, or a change in jobs or income, can affect a consumer’s financial health and a check-up with a mortgage professional can insure that your current loan is the best one available for your personal situation and educate consumers about what lenders look at when evaluating an application for a mortgage or line of credit.”

Prior to joining the mortgage planning industry three years ago, Williams was a former director of business development for a large transportation company and an account executive for a Fortune 500 company. A resident of Chula Vista, Calif., Williams earned a master of business administration from National University in San Diego and dual bachelor degrees in business administration, finance and marketing from Ohio Northern University. An avid tri-athlete, Williams supports the Challenged Athletes Foundation and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

For more information about Daniel Williams and San Diego Lending Solutions, visit www.sandiegolending.us or call 619-240-7187.

The Fire Apes, an Indie Rock/Powerpop band from Charleston, SC, will be the featured artist on IndieSolo.com on Friday, December 21, 2007.

The Fire Apes continue to be a Powerpop/Indie group on the rise. Their original guitar-driven pop songs ring true with that affable sounds of pleasant 1960s jangle pop, and there’s often more behind those songs than what’s obvious.

IndieSolo.com is about championing the indie artist in a niche music community of like-minded people who love great music! It’s about exposure, promotion, and empowerment. IndieSolo is an online stage, a place where a world audience can drop by everyday to connect with their favorite band or discover a new sound or emerging artist. It’s a destination for industry professionals, a place where they can uncover, book, and sign new talent.

The individual responsible for this daunting yet exciting task is IndieSolo’s Music Director Melanie Schade. Melanie is scouring the globe looking for bands and artists that are ready to take their music careers to the next level. “IndieSolo is the perfect opportunity for bands to separate themselves from the crowd” says Schade. Selected bands will have 1 day | 24 hours |1440 minutes to promote their music, show-off their unique personalities both onstage and offstage, build their fanbase, and make money through the sale of CDs, ringtones, merchandise, and donations. A large component of indieSolo.com will focus on connecting fans to the bands. To achieve this, indieSolo created a unique rating system that will measure a band’s popularity and buzz. Fans will be able to interact with bands, give feedback, and download free MP3′s and ringtones. More importantly, indieSolo has now made it easy for music fans to discover new artists plus great music.

Fans have a say on indieSolo and a chance to be part of a provocatively bold and entertainingly cool community.

The Fire Apes consists of John Seymour on lead guitar and vocals, Julian Volpe on bass and backing vocals, Hugh Knight on keyboards, and Aron Robinson on drums.

For more information please visit www.thefireapes.com or www.myspace.com/fireapes.

Prize-winning 19 y.o. Brady Stanton is bringing Partner Dancing back to Adelaide. Brady, owner of Third Foot (Adelaide), teaches Modern Jive – a fun to watch and fun to do blend of Standard Ballroom, Ballroom Latin, Swing and Rock’n'Roll. Adaptable to ALL types of music, and to clubs, pubs and ballrooms alike, Modern Jive is the perfect Partner Dance for all ages. Third Foot (Adelaide) teaches every Tuesday and Thursday evening, as well as Private Classes for individuals, couples and small groups by appointment. For more information, visit www.thirdfootadelaide.com.au, or contact [email protected] or 0439 885 017.

Meet people, HAVE FUN, and be active.

Get Up, Get Down, Get Dancing!

Vancouver, BC, Canada. December 20, 2007 – Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work Holdings Inc., a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their new corporate website.

Within the first three months of this site going live Alexa.com has ranked the site within the top 220,000 websites globally. This is a higher ranking than such well known local Vancouver companies as; Blast Radius, Coast Capital Savings, Finning, Intrawest, Shred-It, North Shore Credit Union, and Cossette Communications.

With the recent launch of a marketing home-study program (called a Bookinar) for small business owners titled Make My Marketing Work (www.MakeMyMarketingWork.com) that took place on October 10, 2007 at 10am (10-10-10), Make Anything Work is looking forward to increasing this ranking over the coming months.

This is an amazing achievement for the entire team. It really shows what a Vancouver success story can really achieve on the global stage.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new website, with its high traffic ranking will certainly help to ensure that we get our message out to as many business owners as possible.

About Make Anything Work:

Launched in 2007, www.makeanythingwork is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. To find out how to Make Anything Work visit www.makeanythingwork.com.

Contact:

Alex Read

Chief Enterprise Officer

Make Anything Work Holdings Inc.

604 – 628 – 6646

[email protected]

http://www.makeanythingwork.com

Investing in real estate blindly is often likened to jumping a deep water swimming pool without the knowledge of how to swim. In short, investing in real estate without adequate knowledge can lead to disastrous results. Thankfully, one Chicago based businessman is out to help new investors leave their risk at the door with an innovative education program.

YourFinancialRiches.com is owned and operated by real estate investor Jeremy Delgado. The site is built to offer people interested in making supplemental income from real estate a reality. Investing in real estate is all too often glamorized on late night television as an easy hassle free way to make money.

“These late night TV shows have people thinking they can pick up a few properties for nothing down with no credit and make millions in months. The truth is real estate investing is hard work, and people need a solid foundation of market experience and education before true wealth arrives. My program provides both of the needed entities in a way that is affordable, easy to follow, and incredibly effective.” Explains YourFinancialRiches.com Founder and Owner Jeremy Delgado in regards to his innovative approach to real estate investment.

Helping Mr. Delgado educate his clients on the power of real estate investment is Nouveau Riche, a real estate education and mentoring program that has received rave reviews from clients, and teachers alike.

Nouveau Riche offers college level courses in real estate investment. Topics range from home appraising to financing a real estate purchase. The wholesome approach to education first, investment second, is what has people lining up to get involved in the program.

“I have seen people at our meetings just light up with excitement over this program. It is a way for people to become schooled on the real estate investment industry without losing any money in the process. Once the students are capable of understanding how to make a solid investment, we have sister companies that come aboard to provide the necessary services to make that happen. It is literally a one stop shop.” Explains Jeremy Delgado in reference to his businesses variety of services.

For more information or to view a free video presentation visit:

http://www.yourfinancialriches.com

Kiss goodbye to panic gift buying: new website LateLateGifts.co.uk is helping thousands of last minute shoppers cope with Christmas.

The idea behind the site is simple. Users can browse 60+ shops that offer immediate, same day or next day delivery gifts to take the stress out of last minute shopping.

Time is of the essence for the feckless gift giver, so the easy to navigate website offers simple search options to help users find the presents they need pronto.

Shoppers who are really racing the clock can search same day delivery gifts. For those with a day or two’s grace, the site lists retailers offering delivery by the following morning.

The range of shops means there’s an ideal gift for everyone. From electricals, gadgets and computers to jewellery, chocolates and experience days, it’s all on offer – and delivered fast.

Late late gifts creator, Richard Kershaw, was inspired to build the site by his own shoddy gift-giving habits:

“I know all too well the stress of last minute smash-and-grab gift buying. But I was certain I wasn’t the only person who was, well, just a bit rubbish at buying presents.

“I couldn’t find anything out there to take the pressure off buying gifts for your nearest and dearest. I hope that Late Late Gifts will make Christmas and those other big occasions a little less daunting.”

Big White Wall, the new online emotional health network, provides a place where people can address their debt issues, share spending secrets and build an emotionally healthy relationship with money.

Consumers with large debts not only have to find a practical solution to get out of debt, but also need to establish an emotionally healthy relationship with money. Rather like substance addiction, having an unhealthy relationship with money i.e. being addicted to spending and debt, is a major threat to emotional health and can lead to low self-esteem, relationship breakdown and increased stress.

To many addicts it often appears easier in the short term to stay addicted to something than to go through the long process of withdrawal, and so it is with those in debt, it is easier to carry on spending and increasing debt than it is to agree to a repayment plan.

So, in order to successfully overcome a debt problem, the addict must prefer the long-term good over short term pleasure, which requires ‘willpower’. In order to summon willpower, it is critical that emotional issues around the spending and debt are addressed alongside the practical, otherwise there is every chance that the addictive behaviour will return and the spiral into debt starts again.

Big White Wall, the new emotional health network, provides a place where people can address their debt issues, share their spending secrets and build an emotionally healthy relationship with money.

Big White Wall Founder, Jenny Hyatt said: “People in debt are often very secretive – they may hide their problem from their friends and family. Sharing your situation with others is the first step to doing something about it and it is often more comfortable to do that anonymously with ‘a stranger’.”

Big White Wall sits alongside debt agencies and charities that specialise in practical debt reduction strategies, and offers a place to address and resolve the emotional issues that caused or contributed to being in debt.

Note to editors

Big White Wall is the place for emotional health online (www.bigwhitewall.com). It is a support network where people can be open, honest and anonymous and express their everyday worries, deeper concerns and hidden secrets. Users can also learn more about how to be emotionally healthy.

At the heart of Big White Wall is The Wall where users can improve their emotional health by expressing their worries, concerns or secrets by ranting or venting on a brick and adding it to The Wall. The bricks are a form of digital graffiti and create an infinite and permanent wall of human emotion.

Big White Wall also includes Talkabout, a dynamic community in which users can talk about their thoughts, feelings and anything that is on their mind.

Big White Wall is a ‘social network’ but the critical difference between Big White Wall and other networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, is that all users on Big White Wall are anonymous and users are known to each other only by username. This encourages everyone on the site to be open and be honest by being anonymous.

Big White Wall was launched in October 2007 and is currently in beta.

Contacts:

Jenny Hyatt, Founder and Director: [email protected]

Charlotte Vere, Director: [email protected]

Big White Wall, the emotional health experts, explain why New Year’s resolutions of diets, detox and exercise won’t work unless you are emotionally healthy first

The online specialist for emotional health, Big White Wall, says that focusing on improving the health of your ‘head’ is more likely to bring longer lasting health benefits than ‘quick fix’ New Year’s resolutions which lead to faddy diets and short-term exercise programmes.

Every year many of us make the annual promise of perfection, but research has proven that nearly half of all New Year Resolutions fail by February.* Big White Wall Founder, Jenny Hyatt, comments:

We tend to enter the New Year with a lot of emotional baggage. Making New Year’s resolutions can give us a sense of control over what we did not do or should not have done in the previous year and yet they are often founded on negative emotions – poor self-image, guilt at seasonal indulgence, stress levels at work and fear of how others perceive us – rather than what we feel about ourselves. If we don’t deal with these root emotions then it is no wonder most of our “good intentions” fail.

To encourage people to be more ‘head-healthy’ in 2008, this coming January Big White Wall will launch its emotional detox diet on www.bigwhitewall.com. This will show how to carry forward what you felt good rather than bad about in 2007, how to deal with last year’s unfinished business, how to change emotionally unhealthy habits and lifestyles and how to embrace the value of head-healthy treats.

Users of Big White Wall are invited to add their thoughts and experiences on the site on how to enter the New Year with a healthy head. One Big White Wall member wrote, ‘My resolution is to take a picture every day so that at the end of the year I have an album of a year in my life. I think New Year’s Resolutions can sometimes be very negative which is why they are doomed to failure. I decided this year I wanted a positive, fun resolution.’

The message is simple – get your head in a healthy state and the rest will follow. Jenny Hyatt explains: ‘with the right mind set, anything is possible – anyone can make lasting and positive life changes so long as they have the full support of their emotions’.

Jenny Hyatt is available for interview

Note to editors:

Talking about sensitive or highly emotional issues often makes people feel vulnerable and unable to express themselves fully. On Big White Wall it’s so much easier as all members have complete control over their privacy and are anonymous; they can build open and honest identities online and express what’s on their mind.

The Wall offers members a variety of ways to express how they really feel. Using words, photos or drawing users create individual bricks to better describe their worries, concerns or secrets before adding them to The Wall. The bricks are a form of digital graffiti and become part of an infinite and permanent wall of human emotion.

The Brick Builder is simple and fun to use and with integrated tagging users can easily and quickly meet others from The Wall with similar interests, needs and knowledge. They can also explore their issues further by asking questions or sharing reflections and experiences in the dynamic and totally organic Talkabout section.

Big White Wall was launched in October 2007 and is currently in beta.

Contacts:

Jenny Hyatt, Founder and Director: [email protected]
Charlotte Vere, Director: [email protected]

*Auld Lang Syne: Success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year’s resolvers and nonresolvers, by John C. Norcross, Marci S. Mrykalo, Matthew D. Blagys, University of Scranton. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 58, Issue 4 (2002).

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