Welcome to Annie's Green Education and Consulting!
Born on a swelteringly hot July day in Kalamazoo Michigan, I was the bossy eldest daughter of 4 girls. After a Norman Rockwell childhood in the Midwest, I began to question my neat middle-class life and quit college to become a Macrobiotic Hitch-hiking flower child... Read more about me
Here are a few of the services we offer:
- BRANDING your new Green Lines – creating powerful Branding for sticky and market recognition.
- MANAGING YOUR TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE - PROFIT$, PEOPLE, PLANET- Greening your product Mix in the “Shade of Green” that suits your needs and market
- Strategies for marketing to niche markets on a tight budget
- Resourcing suppliers – Fair Trade from India, social sustainability from Bali
- Improving the Social Justice side of your business
- Resourcing import agents
- Localizing your supply chain
- Go climate friendly
- MANAGING CHANGE - When Implementing Sustainable Practices, how to manage the habits of yourself, your employees, your customers
- CONDUCTING an ENERGY INVENTORY or AUDIT
- FINDING & CHOOSING RENEWABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – SOLAR, etc.
From the Blog
Walkable Communities
Hey - I just bought a house near down town Willits - never mind that it is a cool house that I am exctied to fix up and be in….never mind that I have to downsize my closets ( yes, yes - a good thing, Iv’e heard from almost everyone) The best... Read more
PACK A PLATE - reuse a party cup…reduce landfills…
Recently my great friend - Diane Darling - had a barbeque and invited everyone to bring their own food serving plates and utensils. Imagine – resting under a shady tree in a fragrant garden, you are eating yummy home cooked food – served on a real... Read more
talking toilets
Did I dare title this article - “let’s talk shit?”…no! Because we cannot talk about his sensitive topic in polite company…in fact, we cannot pretend that we even have such stuff in our lives, so we flush it away using gallons... Read more
GREENER THAN THOU? Let’s talk Stuff, Let’s talk Trash.
Yep - you read it right….I am asking - what is really and truly Green? Well, the answer as I see it - is - everything is relative…yep, ok , seems like an easy out to say this. But, after years of living Green, doing my own “Green thing”... Read more
SMALL FARMS ARE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND PROFITABLE
Let’s take another look at small farms. The localization of our food supply will offer many positive opportunities to our youth, to our sense of place & community, and also to the quality of health and well being we each take from our daily... Read more