Meet The Green Team

An avid t-shirt slogan aficionado and Pacific Northwest native, Kerri Anne is an English Literature BA holder turned web geek / writer / non-profit savant. By day she works for a green company wherein she is thrilled to be doing her part to save the planet daily. By night she spends copious amounts of time day dreaming about world travel and hiking with her fantastic web-designing husband and their one year old pug puppy named after Iggy Pop.

When she's not enjoying all that the good green earth has to offer, Kerri Anne is most likely writing at her personal site, KerriAnne.org, or at CinematicEcstatic.com, wherein she nurses her undying obsession with movies of all lengths and genres. She can also be found on Twitter daily, and recently started a project and a site devoted solely to her newfound love of felt mustaches, and yours, too, at Sisterhood of the Traveling 'Stache.

Mary is a 47-year-old single mother of a college-aged son who is navigating her way through midlife and documenting it at Simply Forties, where she writes about personal finance, relationships, grown children, the environment and social responsibility. She lives in a small rural town in far west Texas where she tries to live a greener life every day. She added vermicomposting to her repertoire in 2008 with worm bins in her basement, and lists raising chickens as one of her goals for 2009. She hopes one day to be self-sustaining and completely off the grid. In the meantime, she's been encouraging those around her to "go green" for 30 years.

A pun-loving Chemical Engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Carrie enjoys acrylic paint, laughter, and daisies. She works in Air Quality Regulation, and her biggest interests are photography, Kappa Delta, and anything green. She's been passionate about environmental issues since she was in elementary school, and that passion has developed into a composting, re-usable bag using, local food buying, eco-word spreading way of life. Carrie currently lives in North Carolina, where she appreciates the greens of the trees and misses the oranges of the Oklahoma sky. Her personal site can be found here.

MacKenzie Monroe resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest as a busy work at home mama to one energetic toddler and another babe on the way in May. Between running the office-end of the finish carpentry business she and her husband own, and beginning to home school their young son, MacKenzie practices as a DONA Trained Birth and Postpartum Doula and also owns a second company called Chic & Savvy Mamas, through which she helps parents learn how to take care of their families naturally while staying modern and maintaining their identity. MacKenzie enjoys the challenge of finding natural, eco & body-friendly alternatives to modern products and practices in order to keep mamas and babes as trendy as ever! MacKenzie can also be found at Hope for Healing where she helps moms dealing with miscarriage, and on her personal blog, MamaKenzStudio, where she enjoys documenting her life as a Christian, home tot schooling, knitting, homemaking, attachment parenting, natural mama!

Anne lives, works, and grows her garden in western Michigan. While the garden is sadly a very small plot, she has plants in pots and boxes all over the house and has almost fully converted her flat roof to grow just a bit more every year. This may prove a challenge this summer with her toddler "helping out." She uses compost to improve her soil quality and grows a plethora of tomatoes for canning and making the best salsa in town. For the past three years Anne has been working as the children's music director for a local church and loves to sing, dance, and teach kids how to worship God through music. Sewing is both her hobby and a handy way to give green gifts to her friends. She's been trying to cook more healthfully for herself and her family, and loves finding new ways every day to live a greener, more economical lifestyle. Her blog, A Little Bit Crazy, is 2 parts "mommy" and 1 part "everything else under the sun."

Brianna is a self-proclaimed know-it-all with an acute desire to investigate everything. With the restless spirit she was seemingly born with, she's made her way across the country a few times: born in Ohio, traveled "down South," lived for four years just north of San Diego, and is now temporarily squatting in Illinois. She and her husband are making plans to move to West Virginia in the fall of 2009 to farm and chase their crazy off-grid dream. With two dogs, two cats, and a brand-spankin' new baby, Bri is settling into her new role as a stay at home mom while building a natural business and blogging about her passions of holistic health and sustainable living and agriculture at DreamChaser.

Meredith is a 32-year-old mother of six children who also happens to have Celiac Disease. She's originally from Northern California, and early on learned to wildcraft for food and how to cook over an open flame while growing up on various cattle ranches. A cross between a cowgirl and a hippy with some rockabilly thrown in, approximately 80% of her family's food is made from scratch, due both to beliefs and Celiac. She has a base list of green goals she's trying to accomplish, with the end result being living nearly fully self-sufficient on some acreage of their own. For the time being, her family lives fairly comfortably well below the poverty level, owning a house in a small rural community in southern Georgia. She homeschools her two sons, and they garden, compost, and use cloth diapers/pads/and tp. Meredith's personal blog, Spiral Owl Creations, is her journey in personal self-sufficiency, and is also hopefully laden with helpful tidbits on how you can get there, too. Meredith is absolutely determined to get on with her dream, and blogging is one way she reaffirms to herself that she is making progress and moving forward.

Velocibadgergirl spent five years earning a double major in Geology and Creative Writing, and participating in the campus environmental club, which once traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. After graduation, she did a term of AmeriCorps service, worked two years of retail, and then got a job teaching Astronomy and General Science to kids. She is a certified volunteer master naturalist and helps out at the local nature center whenever she can find the time. She lives in the lower Midwest with her awesome husband, slightly evil cat and fabulous dog, and is a firm believer in the maxim that every little bit helps when it comes to green causes. In her spare moments, she reads books of all kinds, plays outside, shops at thrift stores, attempts to garden, and writes at Pardon the Egg Salad.

Jenn Savedge is a full time mom, environmentalist, and author who researches and writes about the two topics that are closest to her heart: children and the environment. As a former park ranger for the National Park Service, Jenn traveled the U.S., learning about the environment in some this country's most breath taking wild places. Her first book, The Green Parent: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Earth-Friendly Living (Kedzie Press, 2008) gives parents the info they need to go green while raising kids and the tools they need to pass this info on to the next generation. Find out more about Jenn at her green parenting website, The Green Parent.

Marizela is a science geek. She is also a wife, artist, and tour guide at The Butterfly Farm in St. Thomas, VI. She writes often on her blog Potspoon! and if you need to know where on earth she got the name for her site, just know that living in the Caribbean has rubbed off on her vocabulary as well. Her website is predominately science news for people who hate science with occasional debates about controversial issues in science today. Being a biology student (eternally it seems), she definitely is a bit of a tree-hugger. Her husband accuses her of smelling like bark occasionally and she sometimes gets mistaken for a tree by her dog. Science writing allows her to not only teach people about science, but bring up issues that many don't get to read about. Science is doing some interesting things, especially with regard to "green" technologies, and Mimi is happy to help keep you informed.

Jennifer never imagined life as a Christian, wife, and mother of three children, but here she is and loving every interesting minute of it. She holds a B.A. in English and has finally found her calling as a writer and stay at home, homeschooling mommy. Jennifer enjoys reading, writing, running, too much time on the computer (her sewing machine misses her), and taking lots and lots of pictures (just ask her children). Always a lover of food, the cooking bug snuck up on her and now she can be found in her kitchen whipping up something delicious and vegetarian at Captivated Kitchen and she never forgets dessert. She also writes about living and raising her children as being green and natural from small town USA at Milk and Honey Mommy as well as sharing the adventures of her homeschooling journey at Homeschool Roster.

Lisa is a stay at home wife, photographer, and writer living in a small not so eco-friendly town in Oklahoma. While always having an interest in the environment, Lisa didn’t become truly green until she became sick from Fibromyalgia and started searching for ways to get better. After learning how toxic the products she was using were, she quickly started looking for natural alternatives. One thing led to another and now she is the family hippie, doing things like getting her favorite local restaurant to stock organic vodka, joining her local recycling coalition, and driving her husband crazy by reading every label and telling him why he shouldn’t eat the things he loves. In hopes of sharing her love for the environment with others and saving her husband from having to listen to her talk for hours on end about going green, she started her blog Retro Housewife Goes Green. She now writes for a few sites, all about environmental issues. Even with her online outlets she still drives her husband, family, and friends nuts with all her "knowledge" about the environment.

Jennifer Smith is a mom of three, wife of one, and a full time ecopreneur. She owns and writes for Eco-Office Gals, a green Virtual Assistant company. After spending ten years in the real world as an Administrative Assistant and feeling the resistance of moving toward a paperless office, she decided the only way to go paperless was to have no one to answer to! In her desire to go paperless, "going green" came with. Her love of internet research and the desire to learn brought the desire to teach other small businesses how to go green.