For nearly twenty years - in books, articles, and as an editor - Annie
Berthold-Bond has been researching and writing about the connections
between the environment, personal health and well-being, and has
become a leading authority. She is the author of three books:
Better
Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999),
bestselling
Clean
& Green (Ceres Press, 1990), and
The
Green Kitchen Handbook (with Mothers & Others; foreward by Meryl Streep) (HarperCollins, 1997), and wrote
the chapter on cleaning in
The Healthy School Handbook (NEA
Professional Library, 1995). She was founder and editor-in-chief of
Green Alternatives for Health and the Environment, the national
consumer magazine designed to provide a community to the emerging
environmental health field, and the founding editor of
The Green
Guide (a publication of Mothers & Others), an
Utne Reader Alternative Press award recipient for general excellence
in newsletters. She is currently editor of
Ecowire, an
environmental news roundup for shopeco.com, and associate editor of
News on Earth newsletter. Annis is also the author of dozens
of articles, the editor and designer of her own web site
betterbasics.com, and she authors a popular column "Ask
Annie." Dubbed "The Green Heloise" by
Library
Journal, Annie has been featured in many magazines and newspapers
(including the
New York Times and
Martha Stewart
Living), and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs.
Her greatest passion, outside of her family, is packaging information
for the consumer on how to practice conscious harmlessness.
Having never had a serious health problem, Berthold-Bond became severely chemically sensitive after being exposed to pesticides in 1980. Her illness required that she be in an environment free of petroleum-based chemicals. Not an easy task in the late twentieth century, she began doing research into practical, nontoxic ways of cleaning and maintaining a home, learning willy-nilly as she went along. After getting well enough to have a child, she became particularly concerned about the environmental exposures of children, and the consequences of society's over-reliance on chemicals and their effect on the environment as a whole. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York with her husband Daniel, daughter Lily, two dogs, and an abundance of deer, wild turkey, and other wild birds and animals. She is continually adding to her large database of healthier alternatives and is committed to providing people with information to help them establish more natural lifestyles.
Annie Berthold-Bond
E-mail: AnnieBBond@aol.com