About Us

Our Mission

Create collective action through individual acts both today and by planning for tomorrow. To move everyday people to a stronger, more informed connection with nature in order to protect and restore the environment.

Right now the “Us” is “Me” - but I’m hoping it is also now you and me to make a we. And that a few others will find their way to help us be Us.

I hope you’ll join me in action. We are people who respect nature, value nature, seek to understand how to live in synch and peace with nature. To not destroy but to help recover, regenerate, to see and appreciate the balance of the ecology within which we live. We seek to undo some of the societal beliefs and norms that contribute to the destruction of the ecological balance. We seek knowledge and to live with integrity in respect to that knowledge.

About Me

While I didn’t grow up in a camping/hiking family I did grow up in a gardening family. We had many gardens in our yard and I moved many rocks from those gardens to the gravel driveway to fill in the puddles. Growing up gardening gave me a sense of the seasons, and understanding of food - and the energy required to grow it, as well as the balance of the earth, sun, water as well as companion plants and the good bugs and “bad” bugs.

We lived on a dead-end street with a creek at the end, and my neighborhood friend and I spent hours in the woods and the creek - back when a kid could play in the woods and the creek.

I had an excellent 1st and 2nd grade teacher that taught us about nature. We learned the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and even watched one wrest free from its chrysalis (and I could spell that back then too). I was a proud bug girl.

In 9th grade biology I wrote a paper on Global Warming. We knew then. And we didn’t act.

That was 33 years ago. . .(wait, what??)

I don’t write this to romanticize my childhood but in reflection I’ve realized how much my values, thought processes and view of the world were influenced by these experiences and connections.

I’ve been sharing on Instagram my various efforts related to gardening, native plants, reducing waste, reducing plastic use, driving less, biking more and reducing my carbon foot print. This is my next step in trying to bring my community, friends and family along with me to have positive impact through action.

I also make really good granola and am a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu under Grandmaster Relson Gracie and teach women’s self-defense in addition to my regular day job where I manage a digital communications team for a premier research institute.