About the Green Mama

Manda Aufochs Gillespie, a.k.a. The Green Mama, is a consultant, writer, and environmentalist. She has been featured as the green parenting expert in numerous publications, the Little Green People Show, and with her family on Simple Living TV and in the Chicago Tribune.
The Green Mama teaches interactive and upbeat workshops and fun groups focused on Green Parenting and living green. As well, she has worked with green boutiques, Chicago’s first green daycare, and other small businesses targeting health-conscious consumers while saving money and resources. She also provides families with in-home or web-based consulting to help detoxify a nursery or create a system for using food dollars more effectively.
Ms. Aufochs-Gillespie writes on issues of health, the environment, and green parenting. She publishes a popular blog, writes for other blogs, and has been published on AMotherWorld.com, Alternet.org and in Conscious Choice.
She holds a B.A. in environmental studies and politics from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Today, she can be found riding her bicycle with her daughter at the helm, carrying home food from the local farmers market, while talking on her phone about the merits of cloth diapering.