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Green Consultant

BIO

Manda Aufochs Gillespie is a consultant, writer, environmentalist, and mother. She has been featured as the green parenting expert in numerous media sources: from the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Magazine to TV programs such as THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST and Save My Planet (ABC’s Live Well HD Channel).

In 2007, Manda founded The Green Mama LLC to bring green living information to parents and businesses. She has worked with Chicago’s premier green stores, the country’s first green daycares, and with corporations trying to truly live green. Her writings have been published on Alternet.org, AMotherWorld.com, and in Conscious Choice. In 2009, she expanded the business to include other green mama helpers and cover Canada and parts of the West Coast. Together The Green Mama team provides interactive and upbeat workshops focused on living green, consulting to individuals and businesses going green, and numerous on-line resources. The popular Green Mama Blog has been syndicated in Chicago and Canada and The Green Mama can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, and Chicago NOW.

Manda holds a B.A. in environmental studies and politics from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before The Green Mama, she worked with EcoCity Cleveland bringing green practices to community design and managed one of the country’s first urban ecovillages. Today, she can be found in Vancouver, BC, riding her bicycle with her daughter at the helm, carrying home food from the local farmers market, while talking on her phone about the merits of cloth diapering.