Other notable facts about Carlos:
He was an employee and volunteer for the Boys Clubs Of Miami.
Carlos created and ran Youth Leadership Week, a one-week residential camp for disadvantage Miami youth.
He sold Christmas trees for seven years to raise funds for a gymnasium for the Northwest Boys Clubs and other Boys Club projects.
He has served as a volunteer coach for K-Land.
He was Vice Chairman of the Springs River Regatta.
He was a member of the Miami Springs Lions Club, the American Red Cross, the North-Dade Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, the Custom House Brokers and Forwarders Association and K-Land.
Carlos is the co-founder of the World Wide Peace Train located at http://www.peacetrain.cc/ and www.myspace.com/peacetrain1

Carlos states, "My connection to other people is what truly gives my life meaning. It is a part of my daily routine to look for opportunities to perform random acts of kindness for people I know and love – and for people that I've yet to meet. In a world filled with hate, struggle and military conflicts, it is important for all human inhabitants of the planet we call earth, to get involved in the Peace movement. My involvement in the Global Peace Concert would give one more voice towards the ultimate goal of World Peace."

On the music side, Peter has been performing, producing and writing professionally for over 20 years and owns a recording and commercial studio in downtown NYC. His music has been featured on numerous commercials, film and records within the United States. Peter has also released a dozen records within the blues, jazz, rock and roots genres under different projects. Recently his band The BlackTails released their debut record “Spy Lounge”. Before its release, Dewars Scotch Whiskey Company, licensed a track “Off the rack” for it’s advertising campaign allowing the band to finish the record. Within 3 months of the record’s debut, the band had a publishing deal. 

He met his wife Meghan Cary, a successful performer songwriter, on stage at CBGB’s in 2002 and toured the country playing at house concerts, festivals and clubs. Today, they have a daughter Clara, who unbeknownst to her will become the family bass player and accountant! 

With a passion for creativity and collaboration, Peter has centered his life on encouraging people to believe in their inner strengths and dreams and to not give in to the negativity that suffocates them. He is a dreamer, an idealist and believes in miracles. Everything is possible.  

Peter believes there is a great awakening in the world today and that the majority of people on earth want peace and also believes that only love is real. Music is a form of communication that is not limited by the confines of language. His skills in both music and marketing will help him contribute to the GPC in their efforts to unite life on earth. 

Amy became a team member for the local Clean Water Action.  She, along with other team members would canvas neighborhoods in the surrounding areas.  They’d enter with the hope to create awareness about the issues with their local lakes and water ways.   In addition she learned that sometimes the unseen water could be far more contaminated.  During one normal canvas of a local neighborhood, she quickly learned of a landfill that was never properly capped.  In just a few streets she met three families who had a child fighting the same type of cancer.  They believed, as many did the landfill leaked into the ground water causing these diseases.

“Their soft little heads and big smiles were filled with such hope, while behind them their parents’ eyes welled with tears.  I still think of them and pray their hope prevailed.” She says, “It was the most eye-awakening moment in my young life.  I wanted to mend it all right then, all of it instantly!  I realized I couldn’t, and that is where most would give up, but you can’t. Even if you’re just buying an item that supports cancer research or a local environmental awareness – EVERYTHING counts.” 
At 21, Amy gave birth to twin boys, 10 weeks early.  There she stood watching her babies fighting for life, while so many times we forget the value of taking a single breath. Amy, along with their father, Rich stood beside them all the while, afraid and begging for a miracle.  Too small to be held, they would whisper, “You can do this boys, you can do this!”  They knew the boys could hear them.  Ian tried so hard, but his tiny little body just couldn’t match his determination.  At five days old, Amy and Rick finally held his little body.

Today, ten and a half years later Dakota is the tallest boy in his class, plays football, loves nature, and his video games, and shows no signs of his early arrival.

In the 10 years since Ian and Dakota entered our world, Amy and Rich tried again and again to grow their family.  “Where I was once so angry, asking why me, why us?  I have turned it all around.  Knowing what we know now, it’s medically impossible Dakota is here.  Not a day goes by where I don’t just stand in awe of him.” She says with teary eyes.  They have also realized they were granted an unexpected gift during this long life lesson in grief and loss.  “After Ian there were so many times we felt completely alone.  Losing your child is not the natural course of nature.  Everyone was at a loss for words.  Those closest to us were experiencing their own grief as well.”  Amy finally found a website that completely reached her, and healed her and Rich in such a way, they found themselves reaching out to others, to heal them.
“This is what life should be about, reaching out to one-another.  No one should ever have to feel alone.  All it takes is a little more attention, asking yourself how would you feel?  What would you need?  Take out the garbage for your elderly neighbor in the winter.  Make a meal for a sick friend.  Just simply sit in silence, without comparison or hollow words, just sit and be with someone who needs to know even in the silence, they’re not alone.  All we have to do is just become more aware.  Imagine the difference.” She says with hopeful eyes. 

Amy was brought up to love this planet and the people on it.  Whether it was spending time with her grandpa picking strawberries, or watching her mom tend to flowers her own mother planted.  Amy’s father cared so much about his children’s education he ran and was elected trustee of their school district, as well as being the President of his VVA Chapter.  His mother, Amy’s grandmother through-out her life has painted nature onto canvas.  In so many ways, she has been shown the true beauty this world has to offer.  Her artist soul was constantly cherished and encouraged to blossom by her entire family. 
“It takes a village to raise a child or an entire family, and I am all the better for it!  I want this for my son, and my grandchildren.  I believe so deeply the belief of thinking ahead seven generations.  I will do my part to ensure the generations to come, can do more then just look at the water, or see the world through pictures.  They will be able to jump right in and feel the ebb and flow of this beautiful planet!”  She says with complete belief. 

Amy grows all her own herbs.  Belonging to an unofficial group of neighbors and friends who share what they grow organically amongst each other and donate the rest.  She also is a big believer in environmentally safe products, especially after her son had an allergic reaction to a well known freshening agent.   She says, “After that experience and living along the river, I am very aware of what I use.  If it is not healthy for us and our environment, I won’t use it!”

Amy is in the process of creating a site that teaches each of us how to become more environmentally smart through the use of products, plants and foods we could easily incorporate into our everyday lives. 
Currently Amy, her husband Rich, and their son Dakota live along the St. Joseph River in Indiana.  They share a 165 year old farm house with their “furry kids”,  Sammy (Samuel Adams), Sasha, Nemma, Padfoot, Yonva and Lily-Lu.  She says the land captured her and the home welcomed them.  She instantly knew they found a place that had always been cherished by the families who have called it home.  Living in the center of a large Amish community, they appreciate the reminder to slow down and nurture their surroundings.   

When asked if any particular quote resonated with her, she recited:
"Whatever is material shape, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near — all material shape should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self." Whatever is feeling, whatever is perception, whatever are habitual tendencies, whatever is consciousness, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near — all should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self." 

Zen Quotes by Buddha Gautama (born 563 B.C.)  

“It reminds me to strive to always be better than I was; constant growth.”