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
Permaculture - hooray!!!
Permaculture – hooray! Max & Maria the Permaculturists - visited the garden yesterday…and what a great inspiring download! He loves my metal roof, thinks I can get all the water I need for a whole dry season from it with t he right storage…and... Read more
Let’s Plant a Garden and Lose Weight
So - the last few years it has been hard to maintain my weight…anyone else got this problem? I drive to work, sit at a computer most of the day, then drive home - stopping at the store for a bag of lettuce and squash that came from…where? Turns... Read more
Permaculture - I hope!
My lovely house needs a lot of garden work – the raised beds have little soil in them, the yard is filled with weedy grass and “stick tights” catch your shoes… I am putting down cardboard on every place I can to kill the weeds – and since I... Read more
THE RAG BAG
Today I started a rag bag in my “old house)….yep – it was time…things were out of hand – pretty good dish towels were being used for painting rags, washing the floor – everyone – the cleaning lady, my fab guy, myself – were ignoring the... Read more
CAR SHARE – YEAH BABY!!!
CAR SHARE – YEAH BABY!!! Wow – a just in time response from my great friends – Lanny and Karina – got me into a working vehicle - an old Dodge Caravan - which just now carried me 80 miles so that I could play “Nana” tomorrow … Ok, the... Read more