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Meet Josephine Okut of Victoria Seeds

From Seed to Harvest – Changing the Way Africa Farms

Josephine Okot is on a mission:  To single-handedly improve the quality of agriculture – and thereby the quality of life – for farmers in Uganda, and, if she gets her way, for people across the African continent. 
Josephine started Victoria Seeds in 2004, on the premise that [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Joyce Emery The GREEN GRANNY

Meet Joyce Emery, The GREEN GRANNY

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
All the while I pursued my career, I hoped to get into environmental volunteer work later in life, and I also hoped some day to “write.” Now that I’m retired I’m doing both, and loving it. 
I recently retired from state government after 27 years [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Bea Kunz of SageHill Farms

Interview with Bea Kunz of SageHill Farms and Vintage Store

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
With my hubby Mike, I own and work a sustainable herb farm, located in the beautiful state of Tennessee. I retired from my first career in 2000….(pre-school/daycare)
I grew up on a farm in the 40’s/50’s and am very happy to [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Carolyn Allen of California Green Solutions

Meet Carolyn Allen of California Green Solutions
 

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Hmmm.  When I look in a mirror I’m shocked.  You see, I’m really 11 years old! :-)  I’m really that little girl who used to get perfect attendance at school because I love to learn … and discovered when I was 11 that [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Mary Craig of Mary Craig Ministries

Meet Mary Craig of Mary Craig Ministries
 

After being a homemaker and raising two children, I went back to college in my forties to finish up a degree in Humanities (art, psychology, philosophy, theatre, women’s studies, etc.)  Then I was called to the gospel ministry and went to seminary to earn a Masters of Biblical Studies [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Carol McClelland of Green Career Central

Meet Carol McClelland, PhD, Founder and Managing Editor - Green Career Central

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m the founder and managing editor of Green Career Central, a membership site to help people discover the green career that taps their passions, interests, and experience. Prior to starting this business, I wrote Your Dream Career For [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Jensine Larsen of World Pulse

Meet Jensine Larsen of World Pulse

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am a global DJ of ideas and an unstoppable creator. I’ve noticed I don’t often feel like something is “wrong” in my life:  I’m much more interested in finding out what exactly isn’t working and how to move though it for a  positive [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse

Meet Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’ve just finished my fourth book, “Big Green Purse, Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World.” After 30 years working in the environmental movement for the likes of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, the Women’s Environment Development Organization, and [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Meet Julie Azuma of Different Learning

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.  I sell educational materials for children diagnosed with autism at www.difflearn.com. We believe in an intervention known as Applied Behavior Analysis and in Verbal Behavior.  These are one to one teaching for children diagnosed with autism. 
ABA has significantly changed the landscape of autism, giving hope for [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Meet Michelle Bailly

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I was born in Canada and came to live in Ireland 20 years ago.  I’ve always felt an affinity to Ireland even as a small girl and had a strong feeling I would visit it one day…little did I know it would capture my heart so completely.  [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008