About Lynn & Corey

We're a mother-daughter team whose passion is to help people green up their celebrations. Through creativity, laughter and collaboration, we're here to show that learning to be green during holidays and celebrations can be easy, affordable and fun for the whole family.

On St. Patrick's Day, we'll be talking green with two ecopreneurs we admire.

First we'll be chatting with April Milliken Trigg, the founder of Eventologie and an eco-tainer extraordinaire. Over the past five years, April and the team of Eventologie worked with numerous environmentally conscious organizations, corporations and individuals to achieve creative & innovative Green events. Clients including the National Recycling Coalition, Keep America Beautiful, US Green Building Council, Earth Share of Georgia, The Coca-Cola Company, Southface Energy Institute, Georgia Recycling Coalition, Waterkeeper Alliance, Lexus and Conde Nast Media

Group have looked to Eventologie to implement greening efforts at their conferences, galas, private gatherings, leadership events and Earth Day celebrations. With many people looking for ways for‘going green' with their purchases and energy usage, they often overlook an area of their lives that could make a difference, as well: entertaining.  April knows the facts and' food for thought' as you plan your next party, corporate event or fundraising affair.

Next up we're delighted to welcome Diane MacEachern, of Big Green Purse fame. Diane is a speaker, writer and like us, an evangelist for saving green while saving the planet. Diane is passionate about empowering consumers -- especially women -- to use their marketplace clout to protect the environment. Her book, Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World, along with her website, blog etc. empowers us to spend wisely, and know that every purchase says something about our values.

Diane is a frequent speaker to business, non-profit and consumer groups. Audiences have included the American Bankers Association, The Discovery Channel, Toyota's In the Interest of Women Conference, Texas Conference for Women, Pacific Life Insurance Company, Harvard University, Unitarian Universalist Church, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brandeis University, Good and Green, M2W - the Marketing to Women conference, and the sultanate of Oman, among others.

First up on today's Celebrate Green! show is mother-daughter team Susan and Chloe Pate from Apple Park toys. We came across their gorgeous eco-friendly toys at the Seattle gift mart and immediately fell in love.

Apple Park is a new line of 100% organic plush toys and baby accessories designed with love in San Francisco and manufactured at China's first and only organic-certified toy factory. Apple Park Picnic Pals are five plush baby animals:  bunny, cubby, ducky, monkey and lamby, who live and play in Apple Park, a make-believe park in San Francisco, where heart-shaped apples grow on trees and every day is the perfect day for a picnic. All Apple Park products and packaging are made with state-of-the art, ecologically supported materials.  One hundred percent organic cotton, natural silk, non toxic plastics and sustainably-grown corn fiber, soy and hemp are used to create the unique and naturally hypoallergenic products. Apple Park fuses new technology and old world craft to create products that are one hundred percent non-toxic and exceed safety standards. 

Next we're excited to welcome Tammy Wilson. Last fall, when we were invited to film a segment for Parents TV in NYC on staging a green baby shower, we were in touch with Tammy to ask about including an amazing upcycled diaper bag by Brazilian artist Gabi Goncalves and were thrilled when Tammy sent us one for the segment. You can see it here. In her online shop, Earth Lover Shopping, Tammy stocks fair trade gifts and accessories along with natural, organic, handmade, renewable and recycled items.

We'll wind up today's show speaking wtih Mike Reichner from the incredible Purple Haze Lavender farm in Sequim, WA. (We dare you to try pronouncing Sequim if you don't know how!) Mike's career job was as a Park Ranger, but in 1995 he saw a blurb in the local Sequim paper about a meeting on growing lavender.  Mike attended the meeting,  saw this as a great opportunity and Purple Haze Lavender Farm was born!  After 14 years of hard work...Mike and his wife Rosalind now split their time between their home in Mexico and the Lavender Farm, which has grown into 12 acres of Certified Organic Lavender, two retail shops, a vacation rental, and a wholesale supplier to hundreds of stores all over the country.

Apple Levy is the founder of TheGreenGirls.com. where the goal is to educate and inspire an Eco conscious lifestyle through pop culture and social media. One of the reasons we love the Green Girls site, where by the way, we blog, is because it's FUN! And if you read Apple's bio, you'll discover that she is determined to find ways to live a fun, eco friendly life while inspiring friends along the way to do the same.

As a health advocate with a drive to help people live brighter and healthier lives, Apple has always had the love & respect for our planet. She learned to love the Internet from her husband & found this to be a great outlet for her passions.

Natalie Singer is a cloth diapering educator and the owner of Punkernoodle Baby (SeattleClothDiaper.com), Seattle-based online cloth-diaper store. She founded her store and services two years ago, after going through lots of research to decide how to diaper her own daughters. She learned that green options for babies had exploded, but many parents are still confused about what's best and how to cloth diaper. She decided to educate them! Natalie now teaches classes, sells a full range of cloth diapers and accessories and writes a blog about parenting, including green parenting issues. Cloth diapering ties into her overall approach of conservation and simplicity as a family!

Raz Godelnik is a great believer in the power of "green" business to bring about positive change. Raz has experience in both financial management and business development and is a former advisor to the Israeli Minister of the Interior.

Raz was one of the founders of Hemper Jeans (www.hemperjeans.com), an eco-fashion jeans company that worked on creating fashionable jeans made of hemp. In 2007, Raz became CEO of Eco-Libris (www.ecolibris.net), a "green" company he co-founded with a mission to "green up" the book industry.

Raz also teaches a course on Sustainability and Green Business at The University of Delaware School of Business. He writes extensively on issues of interest to "green" business and is a regular contributor on "green" business for the second-largest newspaper in Israel.

Raz grew up in Israel and holds a BA in Communications and Economics from the Hebrew University and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. He now lives in Delaware.

Today we're celebrating green with three people whose companies produce terrific eco-friendly items. Whether you're looking for a gift for that special celebration or items to use every day, we think you'll be intrigued by our guests.

First up is Dan Weisenbach. In addition to running a company we love, Dan is a terrific human being. He's full of life and great fun to talk with.

Dan is president of Weisenbach Recycled Products. He also serves on advisory boards of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Keep Ohio Beautiful. The company's website is www.RecycledProducts.com. It features recycled and environmentally preferable products made from recycled plastic, recycled paper, and recycled tire rubber; Awards made from recycled glass; plus printing with soy inks on recycled paper.

Next we'll visit with Buffie Baril from Nashville Wraps. They make eco-friendly boxes, wrapping paper and other items that we like a lot.

Buffie is the internet marketing coordinator for Nashville Wraps. She handles all internet advertising, maintaining the Facebook and Flickr sites along with making sure their website is current and user-friendly for customers and search-friendly for Google. Sounds like a fun job, doesn't it?

Our final guest today is Mark Gavin. Ecojot, the company Mark runs, has been among our favorites for quite awhile. Not only are Ecojet's products eco-friendly, but they are modern and beautiful. Their small notebooks make perfect party favors.

Mark is co-owner and head of sales and marketing of Ecojot, which offers a beautiful range of Canadian made 100% post-consumer recycled paper products perfect for today's eco-savvy consumer.  The company is also proudly sweatshop-free, and always uses acid and chlorine free paper and board, and vegetable-based inks and glues. Not to mention, the paper mill that produces its paper, is powered by biogas. Cool or what?

After working as a web designer for the past eleven years, our next guest, Kaytlyn Sanders, realized that her clientele consisted of many sustainable women who were concerned about the environment and the future and she wanted to introduce them to each other. In 2008, she became the founder of Sostane, a group that connects and inspires green women. Consisting of meetings, creative and insightful activities, and participation in local sustainable events, the goal is to have women look at their whole lives mentally and physically to see how they can sustain themselves. Meetings are currently held on a monthly basis in Seattle and Portland. Kaytlyn continues her web design services as principal designer at Beneficial Design.

Nancy Bishop and her husband, Bear, own Wildfire Cider, an organic cidery in Port Townsend Washington. This year they received organic processor certification and will be producing the first organic hard cider in Washington. 

Their cider is made from European and heritage cider apple varieties that they grow in their local orchard.