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Read our interviews with the innovative green entrepreneurs behind our green business network — business leaders who put people and the planet before profits, and whose sustainable companies help you live a greener life.
Laura Pasternack was spending an evening around the fire with a bottle of wine and some good friends around the time she was launching her line of responsible, recycled-paper greeting cards. Her first design, a brush painting of a seated Buddha inspired one friend to declare: "It's a Buddha doodle!" "No," Laura replied spontaneously, "It's an Uddhaboodle."
"We all laughed, but the name stuck," Laura tells us. "I find that when I tell people the name of my company is Uddhaboodle Arts they usually chuckle or smile a little. I like that." We like it too, so we asked Laura to tell us more about Uddhaboodle's origins, her work as an artist, and the challenges of running a green business.
Next month: Karla Franco of New Generation Energy
June 2010 —
Recycled, Vegan, and Eco-Chic
English Retreads; Boulder, CO
The singer Dar Williams loves her English Retreads handbag. A Green America member, she wrote to us recently singing its praises. "I've been a non-consumer employing the three Rs, and a consumer who uses the power of the purse and pen, all the more so thanks to Green America. And the Green Pages led me to the best handbag I've ever had (thank you English Retreads)."
English Retreads owner Heather English cites stumbling across the Dar Williams quote in one of Green America's newsletters as one of her favorite connections ever made for her through Green America. For this June's interview, we asked Heather to tell us more about the recycled materials in her handbags and her made-in-the-USA manufacturing process (and we find out the unlikely place where she got the inspiration for English Retreads)!
May 2010 —
EcoBeauty: Not Just Skin Deep
Skin, Body, Mind Essentials; Alameda, CA
"With a birth name like Lake Louise, and growing up in the Haight/Ashbury area of San Francisco in the 60’s and 70’s, I was clearly destined to follow a path of earth, spirit, and body consciousness," says Lake Louise Ziwa, founder and CEO (Chief Eco-Beauty Officer) of SMB Essentials.
An educator by profession, with a Master's in Education from Stanford University, Ziwa's turn as a green entrepreneur follows a successful turn as a professor of ecological tourism at the University of Costa Rica. At the helm of SMB, she continues to educate, sharing her knowledge about sustainable skin-care, beauty, and health via her Web site and in trade-show settings. We asked her to tell us more about her all-natural products, the history of her business, and what's coming next (hint: an all-new line of products coming out this summer).
