Praise for LIVING WITH A GREEN HEART
Veteran environmental warrior, Gay Brownes book, Living with a Green Heart , is both a compelling account of her evolution as an activist and a primer for aligning our diets and personal habits with the higher calling of social responsibility.
Robert Kennedy, Jr., Senior Attorney, Waterkeeper Alliance, author, and activist
If you want one of the shortest, fastest routes to getting toxic chemicals out of your life, get behind the wheel of Gay Brownes, Living with a Green Heart and youll get there in no time flat.
Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group
Gay Browne is on a mission to help us protect ourselves, our families, and our planet. Her book challenges readers to explore the impacts our everyday choices have on ourselves and the world around us, and inspires them to take action to create a healthier future for both.
John H. Adams, Founding Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Gay Brownes book is down-to-earth, smart, and accessible. She makes it easy for people to find information and inspiration for everyday solutions to the toxic trespass of corporate chemicals in our bodies, and in our world. Gays advice is practical, positive and evokes the equanimity of someone who truly lives with a green heart.
Michael Green, CEO, Center for Environmental Health
Gay Brownes book invitesand challengeseach of us to do our part to create the world we want to live in, and its filled with loads of practical ideas to do so. So stop whining and worrying, and tap into the positive energy in your own green heart! I guarantee you can make a difference!
Kathy Calvin, President and CEO, United Nations Foundation
Living with a Green Heart provides valuable tools and information we can apply as individuals in order to heal the planet collectively. Gay Browne inspires us to open our hearts to live a more connected and conscious life.
Kelly Meyer, trustee of the Natural Resource Defense Council and co-founder of the Womens Cancer Research Fund
Solving the threat from climate change requires an army of environmental warriors, and Gay Brownes book is an excellent recruiting manual. Read it, share it, and join the cause while we still have time to save the planet.
Durwood Zaelke, Founding President, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, Washington DC and Paris
Gay Browne lives with a green heart and her new book will invite you to do so too. Accessible and practical, Gays book will expand the possibilities of saving ourselves and healing our planet.
Dr. Jennifer Freed, Ph.D., MFT
Its hard to imagine a more thoughtful or more helpful book than Living with a Green Heart . Gay Browne speaks from her own heart and vast knowledge to focus us on what really matters for our own and our familys health, and connect that with ways we can make a difference on a much bigger scale.
Bob Perkowitz, President, ecoAmerica
Wondering where to start the journey to make the world and your home a better and safer place for you and your family? Look no further. Everything you need is right here in this amazing and comprehensive guide to green living. Gay Browne has provided you with the most practical and thoughtful book Ive ever seen!
Jeffrey Hollender, Founding CEO, Seventh Generation and Sustain Natural
As parents, we bonded over the best ways to take care of our family as well as the planet. And specifically, how to share what we learned with others in the most authentic and nonjudgmental way. With all the noise we are exposed to in the media, the need for a book that provides an honest and achievable way to live a greener and healthier lifestyle needs to be the handbook we all look to.
Debbie Levin, CEO, Environmental Media Association
Our planet needs advocates like Gay Browne. While the ultimate answers to planetary toxification are systemicmeaning comprehensive chemicals policy reform and a fundamental shift in the way chemicals, materials and processes are designedBrowne does us all a service by promoting consumer and individual actions that may help reduce individual risk and, most important, increase demand for safer chemistry and a less toxic world.
Alison Carlson, President, Forsythia Foundation and Rachels Network member
What a delightful read! Just the right mixture of business sense, common sense, and personal incentives! Living with a Green Heart is bound to align with your perspectives because ultimately we all want our immediate and long-term future to be healthy and happy. Kudos to Gay Browne!
Lisa Craig Gautier, President and co-founder, MatterOfTrust.org
As someone who is wildly passionate about environmental health as a longtime board member of EWG and participant in the first intergenerational toxic body burden study, I think of myself as pretty knowledgeable on the subject. What Gays book has done is showed me that there is so much more to learn. I am grateful to her for informing and strengthening the movement in her quest to protect us, our families, and communities.
Laura Turner Seydel, philanthropist, Chairperson and volunteer, Captain Planet Foundation
Gay Browne is a Force of Natureas is every one of us. We all make a difference. But is your overall impact healing or destructive? Are you a Consumer or a Regenerator of your life support system? Living with a Green Heart provides simple guidance to answer the questions and begin or accelerate your way to healthier and safer youalong with your home, your community, and your world.
Andy Lipkis, Founder and President, Tree People
A hands-on guide to green living written from a personal perspective and full of Gays warmth, care, and compassion. A joyful reminder that we can make a difference in all our daily choicesboth large and small.
Mary Cordaro, Healthy Building and Indoor Environmental Consultant
Whether you are green and new to clean living or a seasoned veteran, Living with a Green Heart is filled with extraordinary tips and expert advice to help you along your green journey!
Dr. Alexis Daniels, D.C., CACCP, Daniels Center for Vitality at Sports Academy
Gay is one of the foremothers of the environmental movement. She helped create a new breed of activist. She recognized early that in addition to business and political will, we need people to vote with their dollars. With plenty of historical references, Gay provides myriad ways to make a positive personal impact.
Zem Joaquin, founder, ecofabulous and Near Future Summit, co-creator, Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute
Get ready to enjoy having a fantastic tour guide as you embark on your own green journey alongside Gay Browne. Her practical style and approach will inspire and lead you to make lots of small changes in your life that will build habitsand habits will last a lifetime! Her goal is to help you lead a happier, healthier, and more grateful lifestyle!
Dave Aardsma, Founder at Aardsma Environmental Solutions Inc.
The last fifty years have seen this planet become saturated with toxins from plastics, pesticides, personal care products, and industrial manufacturing. To prevent these environmental pollutants and toxins from affecting you, your family, and your child, the first step is awareness and knowledge, the second step is reducing exposure and prevention. Take this extremely well crafted book into your home and let it guide you through everything you need to know, to clean and create a healthy home and personal environment, for you and your family.