The best-selling author of five green living books and (literally) thousands of other articles, and a HuffingtonPost blogger, I’ve been called “the foremost expert on green living” by Body & Soul magazine. Others call me the “godmother of green.” I bring over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor about the connections between the environment, personal health and well-being. With an expert eye for hidden pollutants (honed by my own experience with chemical poisoning), I work to offer us a healthy and timeless way of life that is in harmony with the earth.

I am the founder and CEO of TerraSpheres.com, a site for connecting the spheres of consciousness, community and global transformation. I also edit GreenChiCafe.com, a site that reflects my more personal world of green and spiritual living—www.greenchicafe.com—a site that I started with my daughter, Lily.

Since the summer of 2010 I’ve co-authored a blog called Spiritual Solutions with Deepak Chopra.

Currently I am the editor-in-chief of thewellnesswire.com.

My first book, Clean and Green (1990-) was a bestseller, reflecting the needs of a world hungry for healthy, non-toxic alternatives to everyday products. Since then, I have written The Green Kitchen Handbook (1996), Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999), and Home Enlightenment (Rodale 2005), a comprehensive guide to establishing a naturally, healthy sanctuary within your home. My latest book is True Food (National Geographic, 2010) and was the winner of Gourmand Awards Best Health and Nutrition Cookbook in the World. I field over 100 media requests a year and am a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences; many of the events are keynotes.

From 1999- 2008 I was the executive editor of the Healthy & Green Living part of Care2.com, one of the largest online sites in the green space. Prior to that I was the founding editor of two green magazines – one of which, The Green Guide, was bought by National Geographic.

Annie’s Agent
Lisa Ross
Formerly of the Spieler Agency
www.lisamross.com
518-799-2056

CONTACT ANNIE
Annie Bond
BetterBasics.com LLC

845-876-4252
anniebbond@gmail.com

True Food was awarded Gourmand’s “Best in the World” award in the Health and Nutrition Cookbook category, 2010! The award was announced at the Paris Food Festival in early March!

Product Description

This inviting, encouraging how-to turns the ideals of today’s food revolution into eight practical steps to a healthier, more natural diet. It’s a workable blueprint for enlightening your kitchen in ways that are good for you, your family, your pocketbook—and the environment. Friendly and fun, featuring lighthearted design and lively writing, the book shows how preparing good food with simple, natural ingredients can actually cost less than reaching for commercially produced and processed alternatives. You’ll discover fresh, seasonal recipes and new ways to go shopping, plus practical advice on how to establish priorities among the many rules that sometimes seem to contradict each other. How can I eat fresh fruit in the middle of winter? If favor local produce, do I have to stop eating bananas? Full of quick, innovative solutions (and a few old-fashioned ones, too), True Food is a complete vision of how to select, prepare, serve, store, and enjoy the planet’s bounteous harvest.

The eight steps introduce and implement a short list of powerful ideas, from “Eat Local Food” to “Green Your Kitchen.” Every piece of advice is backed up by solid research and personal experience. Stories of real people who have committed to the lifestyle offer amusing tales of acquiring new habits and inspiring portraits of people who quietly live with a new awareness. Special sidebars called “Budget Benefits” highlight how following these eight simple steps can actually save you money—and at the same time help you nourish better and greener attitudes everywhere.

About the Authors

Annie B. Bond is a leading authority on the connections between the environment and personal health and well-being and was recently labeled “the foremost expert in green living” by Body & Soul magazine. She writes blogs on her site greenchicafe.com and HuffingtonPost.com, and has written four books.

Melissa Breyer is senior editor of Healthy and Green Living and writes about food. She creates new recipes that are posted daily to Care2.com, a natural lifestyles social network and website with 10 million members.

Wendy Gordon founder of National Geographic’s Green Guide, was honored as one of Glamour magazine’s 75 Women Environmental Leaders in 2009. She serves as board chair of Trickle Up, an anti-poverty organization; as vice chair of the Rainforest Alliance; and as trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund.

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Praise

“Home Enlightenment has the power to change the way we live and breathe. You will feel healed—and whole—just by reading this book: It’s a beautiful thing. Annie B. Bond, mistress of the green household and expert on chemical poisoning, gives us remedies for the toxins that ail us. She spells out the ingredients for the good life and the illuminating benefits of sun and candlelight, and she identifies the quiet needs of the everyday. Stockpile copies of Home Enlightenment and give them to everyone you care about.” —Amy Goldman, advocate for agricultural biodiversity and author of three books on heirloom vegetables: The Compleat Squash, Melons for the Passionate Grower, and The Heirloom Tomato

“Change is all about knowing what to change. We as a culture have much to change, and it’s always a question how we should make those changes. In a style ‘only Annie,’ Annie opens the door to your home, reveals the invisible, and helps you weave necessary change into everyday life. I have followed Annie’s sound advice for years.” —Jeffrey Hollender, president of Seventh Generation, Inc.

“Leave it to Annie B. Bond to create the ultimate healthy-home, living-well guide with all the right ingredients—soothing solutions, sensuality, and a whole lot of good sense.” —Wendy Gordon, founder of the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide

“This book is a healing. …” — Frank Lipman, MD, author of Total Renewal. Sirius Radio, February 18th, 10 a.m. eastern

“Annie B. Bond offers a practical guide to create well-being for our home, our environment, and our planet. Follow her advice and both you and our planet will be healthier.” – Deepak Chopra

“…It’s a must-read for anyone seeking to live a conscious life. My copy will be well dog-eared. … ” – Reverend Betsy Stang, executive director of the Wittenberg Center.

Product Description

An informative, practical, and inspirational guide, Home Enlightenment examines the environmental impact of the choices we make each day and addresses how common, everyday chemical exposures have a subtle but profound impact on our well-being and quality of life. You’ll learn how to detoxify your home one product at a time, choose environmentally friendly furnishings over products that off-gas, and establish day-to-day practices that bring healing and natural spirituality to your body and soul. Once you start to develop a natural and nontoxic lifestyle, you can transform your home into a sanctuary of health, comfort, and rejuvenation.

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Amazon.com Review
These days, more and more people are saying no to “better living through chemistry” and yes to a lifestyle that is less toxic and more environmentally friendly. This trend toward a more natural lifestyle has become something of a crusade for Annie Berthold-Bond, author of Better Basics for the Home. After developing hypersensitivity to even very low concentrations of chemicals, Berthold-Bond was forced to rid her life of as many toxins as possible. “It wasn’t until I had to be away from chemicals that I began to realize how many we lived with. The extent of the contamination is startling–from hair spray and floor wax to dandelion killers and plastic shower curtains and other products that line our hardware stores and supermarket shelves.”

This book represents the culmination of her search for a more sustainable lifestyle. Taking her cue from an earlier time, Berthold-Bond, former editor in chief of Green Alternatives for Health and Environment, offers more than 800 simple and practical alternatives to common household toxins, covering everything from skin care to gardening. And the good news is that adopting her suggestions and formulas isn’t hard at all. “Mixing up face creams or wood stain isn’t much different than cleaning the windows with vinegar, soap, and water instead of using Brand Name X, or making a cake with flour, eggs and milk instead of buying a mix,” see asserts. “With a few simple staples we can clean our houses, wash our hair, rid the dog’s bed of fleas, and do many other things as well.” If you have your doubts, here is her formula for metal polish:

3 teaspoons salt, 1 tablespoon flour, and enough white distilled vinegar to make a paste. Scoop the paste onto a clean sponge, and polish the metal clean. Rinse with hot water and buff dry.

Sure, these days it’s literally impossible to lead a life that is completely toxin-free. But you can significantly reduce your exposure, and picking up a copy Better Basics for the Home is a great way to get started.

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Annie’s first book.

Reviews

Better than Heloise’s Hints for A Healthy Planet…. — Library Journal, July, 1990

For those concerned about the environment, and the growing population with chemical sensitivities, Annie Berthold-Bond has the solution – actually 500 of them – in her book Clean & Green. Using her thoroughly researched and personally tested formulas for easy-to-make, nontoxic and nonpolluting household cleaning aids, it is possible to eliminate the health hazards of standard commercial products. — Ontario’s Common Ground Magazine, Spring 1993

In a remarkably easy-to-use format, Berthold-Bond tells how to clean effectively using simple, natural ingredients such a baking soda, Borax, lemon juice, vegetable oil and vinegar. She makes a convincing argument that cleaning with natural products can be handier, cheaper and just as effective as the alternative. — Home, March 1991

It is a gold mine of ideas for cleaning everything imaginable. — Natural Health, March/April 1994

The result of her years of experimentation is not only an encyclopedia for environmental cleanliness, but also a laundry list of solutions of solutions for everyday puzzlers. — Garbage Magazine, March/April 1991

Product Description

485 ways to clean, polish, disinfect, deodorize, launder, remove stains, even wash your car, without harming yourself or the environment. Recipes based on harmless, nonpolluting, renewable ingredients. 160 pages, recycled paper/vegetable ink, paperback.

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www.thewellnesswire.com

Published by Delos Living.

TheWellnessWire.com – The New Voice of Wellness, is an Internet daily covering wellness news, trends and expert blogs. As “the new voice of wellness,” we could best be described by a definition that combines topics of well-being. This connects us to the deeply personal and holistic issues of body, mind, spirit, family and the pursuit of an active, healthy and beautiful lifestyle.

The aim of TheWellnessWire.com is to be the nexus for fusing diverse practices and styles to create a new reflection of what wellness is evolving to become. We do this by scouring the web for all media that provides insight, knowledge, experiences and inspiration.

Just as exploring these topics can be personally expanding and transformative, so TheWellnsesWire.com connects us in their discovery. We each have different struggles and successes, different aspirations. Here’s support for our next life change, a springboard to share our next transformation.

Real wellness builds from the inside out, and the result is medicine for the soul. TheWellnessWire.com is here to provide tools, guidance, and footholds for such a personal and meaningful evolution.

www.terraspheres.com

WHAT: We are soft-launching TerraSpheres as the web’s newest resource for all things green, hopeful, and evolutionary. The team here is working to create a content portal that will be a dynamic contribution to your evolution as a human being, a concerned citizen, and change-maker.

Over the next few months we will be working diligently behind the scenes to roll out some exciting features to support and cultivate global and local community. We’re talking about realtime online community gathering spaces: opened up, and hosted with the focused intention to bring communities together in meditation, prayer, and collaboration. We are building a framework to help co-create a shift in global consciousness.

In the interest of creating an economically sustainable business, while simultaneously catalyzing the evolution of society, we are also building out a new platform for e-commerce. This will be an online resource of staff and user vetted products created from and in support of the highest standards of sustainability, fair trade, and health.

To start, the site will comprise a rich and expanding catalog of blogs, discussion forums, and downloadable guides.

WHY: We believe that the biggest need on the planet right now is for humans to embark on rapid personal growth and to be in service to the planet and the global community.

WHO: TerraSpheres is led by a small, creative team that has a high level of expertise in the green living, social media, Internet technology, and global transformation movement. Meet the team (link).

Terra (ter-uh) -noun: earth; land. “The earth is man’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma.” Gilbert Adair, British author and critic.

Spheres (sfeer) -noun, verb: …a place or an environment within which a person or thing exists; a field of activity or operation; a particular social world or walk of life. “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal

www.greenchicafe.com
GreenChiCafe.com celebrates and offers experiences in the joy of the green culture and lifestyle. A new media site that is both authoritative and user -generated, we share green ideas, values, lifestyle practices, creativity, news, and heroes. The site has a strong how-to component with founder and best-selling green living author Annie B. Bond’s expertise in green solutions and products. All are welcome.

What is Green Chi?

Green Lifestyle: Good for health and the environment
Chi: Vital energy in nature
Green + Chi: Renewal, revitalization, and regeneration on a personal and global scale.

Wall-To-Wall Wellness provides top of the line CONSULTING to help you achieve your ultimate home. Led by “the foremost expert in green-living” and author of Home Enlightenment and True Food, ANNIE B. BOND AND HER TEAM, we tackle the home experience from all angles.