Some people would find it odd that the new Whitehouse website "Tips for Going Green" brought tears of joy to my eyes. But people who have followed me on my environmental journey for the last few years would not.

Seven years ago, while doing some volunteer work for a well-known national wildlife organization, I realized how difficult it was to find legitimate environment information on the internet. The information was certainly out there, but it was interspersed with hundreds and thousands of other websites that were just trying to sell something or earn money for their cause without providing any real information. So I began my "mission" to try to encourage a national program called Take Care of Your Share that created a gateway for all of the legitimate information that is available through government, university and other educational websites.

I created the gateway website (http://www.takecareofyourshare.com/) and I contacted representatives from every single state asking them to help me by providing me the names of the organizations within their state that help to educate their citizens to Take Care of The Environment. Only a handful responded. But I updated the website as best I could. When someone clicked on a link for water conservation, it would go to the EPA website. When they clicked on Wildlife Habitat, it would go to NRCS. I provided other government resources for every form of environmental impact that I could think of. I created petitions for people to sign  and I continued my letter-writing campaign while I wrote articles and blog posts and books encouraging people to Take Care of Their Share of the environment.

The writing presented a problem. Some publications thought that allowing me to write about saving the environment was a conflict of interest. Although I could never understand that logic, it did lose me some writing jobs. I tried to apply for grants to give the books away but again, I was told that it was a conflict of interest, even if I didn't earn any income from the books.

So I continued to write and I continued to blog and tweet and pass along the message of how important I thought it was for everyone to learn how to Take Care of Their Share of the Planet.

There was a voice inside that kept nagging me to give it up and telling me that I should, instead, buckle down and try to add a little income to our household. But my love of nature made me persevere.

And then today, I visited the White House website and saw their page called Tips for Going Green. I clicked on a link called Protect the Environment at Home and saw that it went to the EPA website. I clicked on a link for Backyard Conservation  and it went to the NRCS site and I thought My God!!! They did it! They created the website that our country needs.

Was it my "mission" that got it done? Did my mission even help a little? Who knows. Maybe all of my nagging emails to the president and to the hundreds of other government organizations finally made a difference to someone. Maybe the copy of the book How to Take Care of Your Share of the Planet