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| We may be the superheroes that make up “The Green Team,” but that’s not all there is to us. Thought we’d tell you a few quirky things about ourselves to prove that we’re human too (and we threw our credentials in there for you, just to prove that we’re qualified for the job). |
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Involved with TNTP since August 2002
Hometown: Portland, Maine
Education: College of the Atlantic – B.A. in Human Ecology.
Experience: While she was in college, Lora completed a six-month internship at True North, an integrative health care center, and after graduation she worked for Mad Gabs selling all-natural body products. She is currently the Executive Director of The Naked Truth Project and in her “spare time” also works full-time for O'Naturals Restaurant.
A little about Lora: TNTP grew out of a personal environmental health experience of Lora’s. She began the organization for her senior thesis in college because she was passionate about preventing others from getting sick the way she had been, simply because they don’t know the truth about what they’re being exposed to in their personal environment. When she’s not wearing her “Toxic Avenger” cape, she enjoys throwing Frisbees and pottery, being outdoors, reading, telling stories, watching movies, having good conversations with good people, playing cribbage, trying to learn the piano, and fantasizing about how she’ll take down “the man" someday. She also knows more about pop culture than any self-respecting environmentalist ever should.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Reusing glass bottles and adorning them with any stickers she can find...and then telling people about why she "quit plastic,” making her own personal care and cleaning products or buying ones that are made entirely from ingredients that she can identify and pronounce. She also think it's fun to clean the toilet with an ex-boyfriend’s t-shirt.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Coca-Cola, long showers, bacon, and the Red Sox. |
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Involved with TNTP since February 2007
Hometown: Portland, Maine
Education: St. Michael's College – B.A. in Journalism & Communication
Experience: Skye co-organized the Green SMC campaign for environmental awareness on St. Michael's campus, which, through various ad campaigns in the school newspaper, selling merchandise and working information tables, raised money and social consciousness for issues like recycling and using healthy household and body products. Skye is now the copy chief at Smart Homeowner, a magazine committed to informing consumers about green building and renovation practices for homes and commercial spaces with the newest technologies and sustainable products.
A little about Skye: Skye is very excited to join the volunteer staff of TNTP so she can share with the public her enthusiasm for nurturing people and the environment. In her own time, she practices Anusara and Iyengar yoga, leaves various knitting projects unfinished, reads celebrity gossip magazines, travels, walks, cooks organically, laughs with her fiancé and friends, and frantically plans her June wedding and honeymoon to Guatemala.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Skye is in the process of converting her entire office to natural cleaning products, organic snacks, post-consumer paper goods and recycling bins. She is a proud shareholder in a local CSA, practices on a PVC-free yoga mat and walks to work as often as possible.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Red wine, tuna, designer jeans and downloading episodes of "The Office." |
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Involved with TNTP since May 2004
Hometown: Portland, Maine
Education: Wake Forest University – B.A. Religious Studies. She currently takes various courses in art, biology, management, policy, and public health.
Experience: Anne has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector and has worked for both Maine Association of Nonprofits and The Spurwink Institute doing training and technical assistance. She currently manages the Frannie Peabody Center’s assisted living and transitional housing facilities for people with HIV/AIDS.
A little about Anne: She became interested in TNTP’s work after learning all of the things that she needed to avoid while she was pregnant and because she is passionate about encouraging people to make choices that directly affect their quality of life. She loves doing things with paper: writing, doodling, painting, cutting, crinkling, and pasting. These days, in her free time, she enjoys splashing in puddles, running with a soccer ball, swinging in the park, and molding Playdough with her son. She also enjoys wind-up toys, stickers, milk with ice, and 80’s music.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Reusing glass bottles and switching over to natural cosmetics and laundry detergent. (“My skin has thanked me for the last one!” – Anne)
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Coffee, anti-bacterial soap (she works in healthcare), bacon, and STAR magazine. |
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Involved with TNTP since February 2005
Hometown: Falmouth, Maine
Education: Mount Holyoke College – B.A. in Studio Art
Experience: Anna has apprenticed and worked at several farms and is currently a manager at O’Naturals, an all-natural and organic fast food restaurant.
A little about Anna: She switched over to “green” products when she was younger and got involved with TNTP because she wants to teach people how to also make choices that are healthy for them and the planet. When she’s not wearing an apron or digging in the dirt, you can find her making artwork, cooking and sharing food with people, taking walks, reading, spending time with friends and family, bike riding, writing, and thinking about how she really wants to learn to play the guitar...although she has already performed on stage with her band “The Dead Denvers.”
Favorite ways to live “green”: Growing, cooking, and sharing good, healthy food, making choices that make her feel that she’s being the change that she wants to see in the world.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Peanut M&M’s, French fries, and clothes dryers. |
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Involved with TNTP since January 2004
Hometown: St. Clair Shores, MI & New Rochelle, NY
Education: SUNY Binghamton – B.S. in Environmental Studies, minor in Anthropology; SUNY Stony Brook Medical School – M.D. Family Practice; UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital – Family Practice Residency
Experience: Amy currently has a private practice in Family Practice Medicine at True North, an integrative health care center.
A little about Amy: She got involved with TNTP because the organization combines her passion for the environment with her love of health and wellness. The part about the organization that she most enjoys is collaborating with people that are “highly motivated, gifted, and dedicated.” She loves walking, traveling, and discovering the world’s treasures, cooking and having parties, bird watching, taking care of plants, reading, watching movies in bed, and dancing all night long to pretty much any kind of music.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Reusing whatever she can, not buying overly packaged things, eating locally, organically, and mostly vegetarian.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: The occasional use of smelly body products and perfume, shoes, and Croatian prosciutto. |
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Involved with TNTP since January 2004
Hometown: Portland, Maine
Education: Lesley University – B.S in Environmental Studies. She also attended two alternative education programs: National Outdoor Leadership School and the Audubon Expedition Institute.
Experience: Celeste has been involved with TNTP since before it even existed since she was Lora’s roommate in Seattle. While in college, Celeste completed internships with the Charles River Conservancy and Green Corps. She is now the Resource Development Coordinator for the Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County.
A little about Celeste: Educating people about nontoxic living is the part of the organization that she is most passionate about. She also loves writing, music, hiking, being a mom and introducing the natural world to her daughter. She has an identical twin, knows every word to the movie Labyrinth, once sang live with John Denver, and can now die a happy woman because she finally saw a Beatle in concert.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Buying organic food and cleaning products, adamantly recycling, and avoiding plastic whenever possible.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Wine, coffee, the TV show “24,” disposable diapers, and her car. |
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Involved with TNTP since January 2004
Hometown: Cleveland, Amsterdam, Houston, Dallas, etc. etc.
Education: Bowdoin College – B.A. in Anthropology
Experience: Bethany starred in an Earth Day play about conserving water in 5th grade and later co-founded the integrative health care center True North where she worked as their store manager and programs coordinator. She is certified in the Authentic Pilates Method of Body Conditioning and is now the owner of Springboard Pilates where she helps people rid their bodies of toxins through exercise.
A little about Bethany: She was originally drawn to TNTP because of our use of personal stories in our educational outreach. (She is an anthropologist after all). However, after serving on the Board of Directors for two years and being around the rest of the TNTP folks, she eventually got hooked on the rest of mission too and started to turn a pale shade of green. Now, when she’s not working on her new house, teaching people how to strengthen their Powerhouse, or giving financial advice to TNTP, she enjoys dancing, going to the theater, and reading books that have nothing to do with muscles. She is planning on becoming a Broadway performer when she’s 70.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Taking multivitamins and supplements to help her body remove toxins, recycling and finding new uses for things that can’t be recycled so that she can send her ideas into Ready Made Magazine, and refusing bags at stores if she can carry the items or put them in her purse.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: CHEETOS, CHEETOS, CHEETOS! |
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Involved with TNTP since May 2005
Hometown: Topsham, Maine
Education: University of Southern Maine – B.A. in General Science with a minor in Biology.
Experience: Christopher has taken many Environmental Science classes, worked for O’Naturals restaurant and the nonprofit Preble Street Resource Center, and is heavily involved with ROiL – a theater for social change group. He was also Lora’s roommate for over two years, which makes him very qualified to talk about TNTP.
A little about Christopher: He got involved with TNTP because he believes strongly in informed consumerism (but the rest of us think it’s because he wanted to be the first boy in a group of really cool girls). When he’s not teaching people how to read labels, you can find him doing a million different things: playing guitar and singing, cooking, acting on stage, riding his bike, riding his longboard (“but never down hills”), making people laugh, reading The Nation, or supporting many causes at once through t-shirts, hats, pins, and wrist adornments.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Biking and bussing it (since he sold his car a year ago), using less or colder water, bringing backpacks and containers to the grocery store, refusing or reusing bags, buying locally as much as possible, confusing restaurant servers by asking for a water with no straw, nagging his roommate about taking long showers, and yelling at house guests for leaving lights on.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Avocadoes, coffee, chocolate (he’s working on this one), and beer (he’s not working on this one). |
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Involved with TNTP since February 2006
Hometown: Portland, Maine
Education: Clark University – B.A. and M.A. in Environmental Science and Policy
Experience: Abel is currently a Research Associate at the George Perkins Marsh Institute in Worcester, MA studying the health effects of ionizing radiation, particulate matter, pharmacokinetic differences between children and adults, and the variability in toxic responses. He is also a toxicologist for the Maine Center for Disease Control (formerly Bureau of Health) and does risk assessment, sets ambient air and water guidelines, and is involved with the Maine Air Toxics Initiative through the Department of Environmental Protection.
A little about Abel: He became involved with TNTP so that he could do research for today’s children and the future children of tomorrow – the fact that science knows very little about the effects of most chemicals on the developing child “freaks him out just a little bit” and he would like to do something about that. When he doesn’t have his nose in a scientific journal, he enjoys creating art, walking his dog in the woods, and chopping wood.
Favorite ways to live “green”: Avoiding aluminum and soft plastic, buying fair-trade, local, or organic food, and conserving water whenever possible.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Driving a car and buying way too many CDs that come in plastic cases. |
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Involved with TNTP since January 2006
Hometown: Lockport, NY
Education: Elmira College – B.A. in Environmental Activism and Communication; Antioch New England Graduate School – M.A. in Environmental Studies (concentration in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing).
Experience: Meredith has served as the Volunteer Coordinator at Tanglewood Nature Center in Elmira, New York and the Saco River Conservation Docent, Volunteer Coordinator & Program Developer for The Nature Conservancy in Fryeburg, Maine. She currently volunteers as the Fundraising Event Co-organizer for The League in Portland, Maine and has two part-time jobs so that she has time for all of her volunteer commitments.
A little about Meredith: She came to TNTP because she wanted to get involved with an organization that was new and at the beginning of making its mark, so that she could help to set the organization up and make it a sustainable and vital part of the community. She’s also passionate about making good and healthy choices fit easily into people’s busy lives. When she’s not volunteering with two different organizations and working two jobs, she likes to travel, visit family and friends, watch movies, drink coffee, get together with friends for dinner, check out art galleries, dance, and make people smile. She also LOVES working out and mimicking accents (sometimes to people’s faces).
Favorite ways to live “green”: Following a vegan lifestyle, eating organic and local food, biking or walking (doesn’t own a car), and recycling.
Not-so-green guilty pleasures: Shopping and fashion, Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi, watching a lot of TV, and fried foods. |
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Professor of Environmental Law & Policy
College of the Atlantic |
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Medical Director & Private Practice in Functional Medicine
True North Integrative Health Center |
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| Private Practice in Environmental Medicine and Nutritional Medicine |
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Nurse Practitioner in Family Practice Medicine & Psychiatry
Maine Integrative Wellness |
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