Manda Aufochs Gillespie is a consultant, writer, environmentalist, mother, publisher of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and author of Green Mama: Giving your Child a Healthy Start and a Greener Future and Green Mama-to-Be: Creating a Healthy, Happy, and Toxin-Free Pregnancy. In her 20 years as an ecological designer she has helped green a large midwestern daycare, an orphanage in Guatemala, and one of the world’s only urban ecovillages. She lives off the coast of British Columbia. Visit her website at thegreenmama.com.