Who Are We Fort Lauderdale?
As I speak with people, I try to put down what ties us together and come up with a unifying mission of GreenFtLauderdale.com. Simply put, we speak to diverse segments of the community that care about our collective future. We speak to groups who share a passion for our unique quality of life.
“Quality of Life” is the buzz phrase for the 2000’s. I see mention of it everywhere, from real estate ads to not for profit brochures, from city websites to radio spots.
As I reach out, I see so many who have devoted their lives to helping others, to serving a cause greater than themselves. But read the newspaper or watch the news, and most of what you see is doom and gloom, crime and punishment, hype and noise. If you rate our community by what mainstream media says, leads you to conclude that the quality of life we all talk about is just hype. There’s so much more to where we live.
This site serves as a vehicle to promote who we are, where our hearts are and points us to where we’re going. What will Fort Lauderdale look like ten years from now? Will it be a place you still want to call home? Anyone who cares about the answer to that question belongs here.
GreenFtLauderdale is a good news publication. Is your business an excellent corporate steward? We want to hear about it. Each month, we need articles to tell your story. Each month we need interviews with people, and spotlights on organizations and companies that are doing great things in South Florida.
Our agenda is simple: to tell the story of those who contribute to make the Fort Lauderdale area unique.
Like so many other coastal communities, we are deeply connected to our location. The common chord between the categories we write about is a love for the community, and a concern for its future. This built-in environmental ethic is about conserving, pitching in, resolving issues other communities ignore.
I love Florida. I produce this publication to teach my children that together, if we care, we can change the world–from putting an aluminum can in the recycle bin to saving water, from buying a painting from a local artist to supporting Daily Bread with donations of canned goods, we can all do a little bit to help.
Volunteer, give of your time. There is abundant need and opportunity for you to help. By planning ahead and taking a hard look at resource and growth issues, we will have advantage over those communities that do not.
What will Fort Lauderdale become? I reach out to you, to help me answer this question.
Eric Needle is GreenFtLauderdale’s Publisher. Contact him via email at: eric@greenftlauderdale.com
