We're focusing on celebrating green schools and helping listeners to learn what they can do to help schools become more eco-friendly with two guests, then talk with Marc Cool, director of Seeds for Change about the importance of buying organic when it comes to seeds, and much more!

Our first guest is Helena Flecker. a wife, mother of three, Interior Designer, Green Living Consultant, yoga instructor and environmentalist.  She jokes that she was always a Birkenstock wearing, Granola eating, Grateful Dead Following hippie-type - but with the birth of her first child over a decade ago, what was simply a life style that she gravitated to, became an all consuming passion.  Everything that came in contact both inside and out with the baby was viewed harshly through the lens of 'is this harmful to the baby?  Is this harmful to the earth?  Back then, not many things easily lived up to her new standards.  So with a simple mission in mind- to help clients create healthy and harmonious environments for enjoying life, she launched her home-run business, HFG Design, Inc.

When her children began school, she was shocked to see how environmentally unfriendly school systems are. This became a new passion - to work with her local schools to launch initiatives to bring an environmental awareness to children while making smarter choices that support a healthy planet.

Next up is Marc Cool, director of Seeds of Change. 

In 1989, Seeds of Change began with a simple mission: to preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable, organic agriculture. By cultivating and disseminating an extensive range of organically grown vegetable, flower, herb and cover crop seeds, we have honored that mission for 20 years.

We offer home gardeners and professional growers the highest quality seed varieties, combining superior agronomic traits with beauty, flavor and nutrition. With the relentless consolidation within the agriculture industry, declining natural resources, and the industry's focus on crop yield and handling characteristics over food quality, our mission resonates more than ever. Our organic seeds represent a starting point for change. They epitomize the best of our genetic heritage and are well-adapted for the low-input, sustainable gardening and farming of the future.

And our final guest is Chance Claxton, co-owner of the great company, Kids Konserve, maker of waste free lunch kits.

Kids Konserve products were the natural outgrowth of what two women saw as a big need that required immediate attention. With the premise that any business they under-took had to help the environment in some way, it didn't take much imagination to see how they, as parents of young children, were contributing to garbage landfills, pollutants and sending the wrong message to their own children. How could they set an example of conservation for their children and empower them to be the examples of change for the future? Focusing on how school lunch programs operate opened their eyes and propelled them to create Kids Konserve. Calculating the amount of trash being produced each day at their own schools during the lunch hour alone, shocked them enough to begin more research into reusable products that dramatically cut down on Earth's ever growing garbage pile.