Cristina, Co-Founder and Editor
A few years ago I didn’t know what Bisphenol A was or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or that my lipstick could be toxic. Heck, I even assumed that all toys were safe. But it was learning that I was bathing my son with shampoo that could cause cancer that really shocked me and instigated my interest in “green living”. Today, you’ll find me reading environmental blogs and scouring the Internet to find safer products for my family. In the name of full disclosure, you should know that I sometimes take long showers, and I’ve been known to wrap sandwiches in plastic (don’t tell). I’m not perfect, but I’m becoming more conscious of how my choices have an impact and I’m trying to do my best. When I’m not online, I can be found working part-time as a writer and project manager in the public health field or, alternately, playing peek-a-boo with my two sons in California.
Izzy, Co-Founder and Editor
I first started thinking more seriously about green issues and the environment when I got pregnant with my first child. It started with buying organic milk when I was pregnant so my baby wouldn’t be exposed to bovine growth hormones (rBGH) in utero. From there, I became much better informed and frankly, a little dejected about the state of our food, water, air and the overall health of the planet. So, for the past eight years I’ve been slowly greening my family’s life as much as possible and irritating Rush Limbaugh fans everywhere with all my “liberal environut” talk about saving the planet. I’m a mom of two reluctantly residing in Florida and harboring dreams of someday moving someplace way more progressive and way less sprawl-ridden.
Amy, Contributor
Amy, aka the Crunchy Domestic Goddess, lives in Colorado with her husband Jody and two children, Ava (3) and Julian (1). A stay-at-home-mom, she is passionate about natural childbirth, home birth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, gentle discipline, recycling, green living, organic foods, and informed healthcare decisions. In addition to taking care of her children and home, she runs two online CafePress stores - Attached At The Hip and Cute As A Bug, and enjoys blogging, photography, reading and hiking.
Debbie, Contributor
Debbie, mom to a toddler, wife to a very, very forgiving man, and clean-upper-after of an excessively hairy dog-princess, is passionate about the color green, which has organically translated into her love of all things ecologically sound and sumptous. She loves to wax prolific on the topic and is over the moon about having an official soap box from whence to do so. She can also be found exclaiming and hollering at her personal blog, i obsess, as well as the liberal-leaning, awesome MOMcrats blog, and her new local food review site, Portland Food Mama. Finally, she can be found creating silly/cute t-shirts for little kids at www.faddidle.com
Deborah, Contributor
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Kris, Contributor
Kris is the Writer’s Resource Editor at Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine. She first started to go fairly green/organic about 10 years ago, when she moved to Vermont. Things really started going green after the birth of her child. Her poetry has appeared in several publications including MotherVerse, mamazine.com and Poetry Midwest. Other writing is featured at MotherVerse blog: Mothering Out Loud and Moms Speak Up. For more information, please visit her personal blog, Writing In The Mountains.
Sarah, Contributor
I grew up watching my father recycle, compost and grow his own vegetables and fruit. When I moved into my own place, recycling and trying to live healthy was habit. Now that I am a mother of two children (age 2 yr and 6 weeks), I want them to develop healthy environmental-friendly habits. Currently, I stay at home with my kids and do some educational consulting work. I am a contributing writer at Moms Speak Up. I practice my writing at Blogversary. My favorite activities include walking, running, gardening, reading and music.
