This is an awesome concept! I found out about this through the Natural Living magazine.
Check it out & be a supporter of Local businesses like Green Clean of Avalon Inc. & Shaklee Products sold locally!
http://www.greencleanofavalon.com
Thanks for you interest in the 3/50 project!
Green Clean of Avalon Inc. is celebrating it’s 1 year Anniversary on Earth Day 2012! We have been in business for 1 year officially & what a ride!
In celebration of our Anniversary I will be giving out H2 samples, G samples, a Free In Home Education Quiz (by Shaklee), free vegetable starter plants (yellow tomatoes, spinach, collard greens, peas) or a lavender plant…you pick.
I am also doing Free In Home estimates or over the phone. Email green_clean_avalon@live.com or call (407) 501-0509 for an estimate!!!!
Help us to celebrate our One Year Anniversary! 
Reach out to us. Thank You!
~Katy McBride
Owner/President
Green Clean of Avalon Inc.
(407) 381-4395 work
(407) 501-0509 cell
Out with the old and in with the new is the promise of a new year. So what will you do with 2012 differently than you did with 2011? In this new year some of the goals for
Green Clean of Avalon is:
We appreciate the 75+ houses we cleaned from our Living Social vounchers and look forward to new customers in the New Year.
Finally, we are soft-launching our new business website. So without further ado, here it is (a Flash based website!)
http://www.greencleanofavalon.com
Feedback is much appreciated.
Today I spoke to the Student Advisory Board at my school about Recycling at our campus. I first asked them, “Is this something you are interested in doing?” I got an overwhelmingly large number of nods & enthusiasm, so I will take that as a yes.
I told them that I am not the Recycling Liaison at my school, Winter Park Tech Avalon for multi-use Recycling. My first job: I removed the “cardboard only” sticker on the Recycling dumpster. They were only put on there because they were Refurbished & WSI forgot to remove them?! Hmmm. Weird. Okay, so I officially removed this little sticker & now we can recycle muti-use items. We are supposed to use the Orange Bags at the school, which I heard are around because the GED teacher who led the meeting used the bags to cover his computer during the Hurricane scares.
So, we have the bags somewhere, we have the blue bins in each classroom. Now it’s just a matter of getting the information out there to the right people & putting up signs. I heard there is a teacher at Timber Creek High School that is in charge of Recycling there. So that is good. After looking on the School Districts website there was little to no information about how to Recycle at the school level. For being on the the largest school districts in the Country this really is a disservice. There needs to be more information on the counties website about Recycling at the Schools & “How To”.
Okay, so I told everyone my plan & got a lot of really good feedback. I am supposed to meet with the Recycling Chair sometime this week or after the Thanksgiving break. I would like to get this implemented before I graduate which is December 9th. There is still so much to do & so little time. I would like to get a Grant to increase the information & education of this topic in the schools. I have a lot of ideas, but without money, it’s hard to be really effective. So if anybody has any ideas on how to get money for this project, please let me know. I can be reached at green_clean_avalon@live.com. Thanks & God Bless.
This past Tuesday I spoke at Orange County School Board’s Pre-Agenda Meeting. I am so happy I did not have to speak at the large meeting but only at the meeting with about 50 people (versus 150). In the room was a round table in the front where the School Board Members sat like Bill Sublette, Ronald Blocker, Joie Cadie, Daryl Flynn, Nancy Robinson, and Vicky Bell to name some of them. I had only 5 minutes to talk (which wasn’t enough) and I presented my powerpoint slides. I only got through 8 out of 45 of them. Oh well. I think I got my point across though
I wish I could attach my powerpoint slides to my blog. I will look into that, but until then can you please sign my online petiton at change.org? I would like to get to 1,000 signatures by October 25th. This is important to me & our future children. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Oh, and one last thing….after the meeting I had 3 or more people approach me. After I was done speaking Mr. Blocker told me that many other people had tried this in Orange County & dropped the ball. He said my best bet was to get one School Board Member to sponsor my idea & run with it. After looking at the board members I would like to go with Daryl Flynn. She is from my hometown of Sarasota and seems really nice. I also like Nany Robinson, Vicky Bell & Joie Cadie. The people who approached me after the meeting were:
It was Jennifer I spoke to the most after the meeting. She is in charge of the recycling programs in OCPS. She was telling me that they already have recycling services? I kept telling her that I hadn’t seen any except for a blue recycle bin in my classroom which was designated for paper and then an aluminum box collector in the break room. She was trying to tell me that there is multi-use recycling and there are bins behind the school where the custodians are supposed to be putting the items? Well, I went behind the school and all I saw was unused trash cans with nothing in them. Looked to me like they were trash cans that were not being used? Then I noticed the paper & cardboard large trash bin next to the regular trash bin from Waste Management. So I really don’t know what she was talking about. The Chief Facilities Officer Mr. John Morris was telling me what a great job they are doing with recycling when they do new construction, and that is great, but I don’t think they are doing enough as far as standard recycling in the schools. I am going to contact Mrs. Jennifer Fowler again and see exactly what is being done right now. If there is supposed to be recycling happening the information is not getting out. The bins may be in place but if nobody knows what to do with them and the imformation is not getting out there….that is a problem. My head administrator did not know, therefore I do not find their Recycling Efforts successful & work needs to be done.
I will not give up on this idea & could used some help to keep this grassroots movement going….I am calling it OCPS Recyles! after UCF’s program UCF Recycles! My older sister asked me the other day, “why are you doing all this, it takes so much effort & your not getting paid.”. I told her “I know, but this is important and I care about my future kids as well as what God has given me”. I am an Environmental Steward through and through & sometimes take the recycling to another level. I like the nickname “Recycle Nazi” for now. It seems like only the extreme will get through to people in this day and age & we need to start taking action OCPS! Thank You!
p.s. Isn’t Daryl Hannah a huge green promoter too? She is my idol. 
Getting inspired by Molly Katchpole the girl who started the petition against Bank of America and her ’Tell Bank of America: No $5 Debit Card Fees” online petition; I decided to start my own petition to get Recycling in Orange County Public Schools. I am calling it OCPS Recycles! after the University of Central Florida’s program UCF Recycles! They are making strides with their “going green” initiative on that campus. They started in 2007 & are already at a 31% recycle rate! Go UCF!
So I was a bit shocked to find that my Vo-Tech Winter Park Tech Avalon did not have a Recycling program other than paper recycling bins in each classroom & one aluminum recycling box in the lunchroom. Then I decided to investigate other schools in Orange County and they did not have recycling programs in their schools other than paper. I just did not feel this was enough. Then I decided to research Recycling statistics in the State of Florida. We are actually #2 in the State for Recycling (Orange County) as of 2009. Miami-Dade County is actually #1 in the State. I would like to take that title from them & I just know getting recycling in Orange County Schools would help.
So can you please sign my petition to get Recycling into Orange County Public Schools? My goal is 1,000 signatures by the 25th of October. I am speaking at the School Board Meeting this Tuesday, October 11th about this issue. Stop by if you are able to make it! The School Board Meeting will be at the Education Leadership Center. Thanks for your support!
This is a great video about Shaklee products. Explains exactly why I use Shaklee in my home & for my business Green
Then if you are interested in buying a few products or if you’d like samples, give me a holler.
I now have my own Shaklee Get Clean Website!!!! Check it out. These are the products I use on a daily basis that are so great.
I am a student at Winter Park Tech Avalon a Technical school part of Orange County & I am surprised that we do not have recycling here. Okay, let me rephrase that, we do not have plastic recycling here. We have paper recycling here (big deal) and even a can collection in the break room but there is no real emphasis on recycling here. I am very shocked. Coming from UCF where UCF Recycles! was so big, to come to Orange County It is a real disappointment. It is just not a priority for Orange County.
So I have researched the problem, gone to a local Elementary and High School and find that there is only paper recycling there as well. I have spoken to Administrators here and to get it started at just our school, I would have to speak at an Advisory Board meeting and that does not happen until October! I have contacted the School Board and have asked to speak for 5 minutes at the next School Board meeting. I will emphasize how there are laws requiring FL to recycle at least 30% of their waste. That is not such a large requirement but steps need to be taken.
Would you like to help? I need solid research to present to the Board. I want to compare our county with other counties around the country and show the cost analysis of recycling. I am sure there are other states that are doing this. I know UCF is doing this in a big way and I even know the man in charge of it Brian Wormwood. I am excited to make this topic a Need rather than a Want for Orange County. We must be responsible stewards of what God has given us. Not recycling in the schools just does not make sense to me.
July 19, 2011
Green Clean of Avalon Inc. has been in business now for almost 3 months now, and what a ride!….it has been insanely busy, kinda slow…around the Holidays, and such a learning experience. I started this company because I have a knack for cleaning. Heck, I have felt like a cleaning lady for my Mom ever since I was little. She is a Type A Nurse Practitioner who owns her own business Age In Place LLC. She has been a Nurse for over 30 years and demands a high level of cleanliness. Her maiden name is Mraz from the Slovak Republic..and means “cold”. I heard Checkslovakia was the first country to have slaves..and I can believe it! Love ya Ma…..maybe I’m just spoiled I don’t know but from the time I was 14 all I can remember doing on the weekends regularly was cleaning while my Mom was at work. It’s just something that has become like second nature to me, and I know I’m great at.
So when I thought of starting a business that would require little start up, cleaning was my first thought. My older sister Janette had a cleaning business in Bradenton and told me what her’s was like. So I got my inspiration from her. I wanted to take a unique spin on the cleaning and make it “green”. So I started researching cleaning chemicals and have found out that it is more toxic in the home than it is outside. Which is not hard to believe considering the chemicals we use in the bathroom to get it clean. Have you ever felt like passing out while cleaning the bathroom? I know I have! So when I started my business, guess who was one of the first people to contact me? A lady by the name of Claudia Shedd and she represented a Green company called Shaklee that has been concerning with Environmental Stewardship since they opened. She had a basket of Environmentally friendly cleaning products for me to try and dropped them off at my front door the first week my company was in business. So, I thought I’d give them a try. What did I have to loose?
Well, I was very impressed with their “Get Clean” products! They did the job very well and when I ran out, I just added a little concentrate and water, and I was back in business! Plus, when I cleaned the bathrooms, I did not feel light headed anymore! Yeah!!! So, I have invested in Shaklee Get Clean products and highly endorse them. I have cleaned over 75 houses and they do a great job. I am now a Distributor with Shaklee and can sell the products as well as sign up other people to be Distributors like me. Check out their Get Clean line...http://www.shaklee.com/products_prod_getclean.shtml. If you have any specific questions about the products, I can answer them for you.
So I am off to a great start with my business. I am about halfway through with my Living Social vouchers and have about 75 or more to clean by October. It’s a big job, but somebodies gotta do it!
xoxoxoxoxox
~Katy~
