Guest Profile: Annie Bond

URL: http://www.greenchicafe.com

My Café Confession
It took me just six months of being surrounded by natural materials to recover from eight years of being seriously sick from devastating central nervous system damage after a pesticide poisoning. It wasn’t until I established this natural oasis that I rejuvenated, and I did, like a wilted plant that had been given water. I became well enough to have a baby, and have led a normal life for 21 years because I’ve learned about how to do without synthetics, and as long as I can always come home to my natural sanctuary to recover from exposures. An eco-fail turned into an eco-win.

My Open Mic and Gallery
“Our intuition knows nature is where we belong and who we are. I feel that you always know when you are in the presence of the highly vibrant essence of nature. The Cherokee say that there is no name for this energy because it is so beyond our imagination that there aren’t any words in the language to describe it. But all of us know it.”
–from my book Home Enlightenment (Rodale Press, 2008).

My Story
The best-selling author of five books, many eBooks, and (literally) thousands of articles, I’ve been called “the foremost expert on green living” by Body & Soul magazine. My books include Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999), Home Enlightenment (Rodale, 2008), Clean & Green, and True Food (National Geographic, 2010). eBooks include Homemade Detox Baths, Natural Skin Care Baths, Clean Green for Pennies, Natural Flu Protection, and more. I’ve worked as an editor/blogger on websites for 10 years.

My How-To- Tip
How do you define “green?” Analyze your toxics footprint as well as your carbon and natural resources footprints.