About What’s It Like, Living Green?
Jill Ammon Vanderwood is excited to introduce you to some very special families who live green and kids who really make a difference for the environment. In this children’s book, kids as young as four up to seventeen are making green choices every day–and so can you.
In What’s It Like, Living Green? Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way they Live, you’ll learn how other kids live green, along with tips as simple as putting on a sweater rather than turning up the heat. You’ll see how kids like you can make a difference.
Read about a teenage girl who learned to drive with a car fueled by used cooking grease. Learn about a boy who raised funds to build his first well to provide clean water for a whole village when he was only seven years old.
You will learn simple ways to help the environment, help others, and even earn some money.
What People are Saying
I definitely would recommend this book for anyone who is wanting to learn about going green and what they can do to help be a part of keeping this Earth clean. We only have one Earth it’s not like we can move to the moon when we fill the Earth up. This book has opened my eyes that I can be doing a whole lot more to recycle, reuse and conserve what I have.
Misty Battle/Lansford
If you and your family wish to live greener lives, then What’s It Like, Living Green?: Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way They Live by Jill Ammon Vanderwood is a good book to which to turn for inspiration. Written by kids for kids, the book provides short stories from children who live greener lives. From recycling more to buying more sustainable products, the book offers great tips for everyone anywhere on the environmental continuum. If you want to green your life, then I recommend checking out a copy of What’s It Like, Living Green?
Heather Johnson
Contributors
All ages listed are at time of book being published in 2009.
Azura Ammon is a sixteen-year-old home schooled student from Albany Ohio, who has been raised to be environmentally aware. 
Jeanette Ammon is the mother of two and a Healing Touch Message Therapist from Albany, Ohio. Jeanette teaches us about clean energy and how to walk gently on this mother earth. 
Emma Austin is a seventeen-year-old artist who lives in sunny Queensland, Australia.
Her love of animals has carried over into her artwork as she began drawing animals and things of nature ever since she could pick up a pencil. Emma started serious digital illustration in 2004.
Wynne Coplea is an environmental educator from Springfield, Illinois, who teaches kids about green living, clean energy, and environmental awareness. 
Alexandra Gnoske Davila is the mother of three children who live in North Chicago, Illinois. Alix is teaching her children and other parents to save the earth by reusing, reducing, and recycling. 
Sara Diamond lives in Northern California. She is a Graduate Student in the Department of Entomology at the University of CA, Davis. Sara is working for a cleaner healthier environment and sustainable future. 
Autumn Dibello is a third-grade recycler from Utah who wants to teach other kids how easy recycling can be. 
Devon Green is the owner of ‘Devon’s Heal the World Recycling’, which she began at age five. Her business includes giving of her time and raising funds to help others, as well as helping the planet. She is currently attending college in North Carolina. 
Jessica Green is a sixth-grader and Vice President of Recycling for ‘Devon’s Heal the World’ and Jessie too. She joined her sister’s recycling business at the age of five. Jessica gives back to her community by raising money for those who can’t help themselves. 
Lynn Hasselberger is the mother of an eight-year-old boy and the owner of My Earth 360. In addition to teaching kids about environmental awareness, she sells earth-friendly products such as reusable water bottles and cloth shopping bags. 
Jake Henty is eleven years old and lives with his parents in St. Louis, Missouri. He teaches other kids how to create their own compost to cut down on waste and grow healthier gardens. 
Ryan Hreljac is the founder of Ryan’s Well. Ryan has been providing fresh water wells for whole villages since he was only seven years old. The Hreljacs live in North Grenville, just south of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 
Janine Licare is from Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. She co-founded Kids Saving the Rainforest when she was only nine years old, and is saving animal habitats and planting trees to make a cleaner, healthier world. Janine is currently a student at Stanford University. 
Geoff Mullin is a teenager from North Carolina, who has been brought up by a family “obsessed with saving the earth, starting in our backyard.” His family is careful about their use of electricity and water. They raise a garden for food, and gather healthy eggs from endangered breeds of chickens. 
Julie Mullin is the mother of one teenage son. She lives and teaches others about going green and how to live a sustainable life. Julie lives just south of Raleigh, North Carolina, in Wake County, where she runs Fiberactive Organics.
Mia Norton is four-years-old and a fan of Nickelodeon’s Big Green Help. Together with her mom, Claudia McCracken Norton, she has joined Kids for a Clean Environment. Her family has made a wildlife sanctuary in their own back yard, where they provide homes for birds, frogs and insects. 
Melissa Poe is the founder of Kids F.A.C.E.—Kids for a Clean Environment, created when she was only nine years old. Kids F.A.C.E., is the world’s largest youth environmental organization. Melissa lives in Nashville, Tennessee. 
St. Benedict School is a parochial school in the Archdiocese of Chicago. It is located in Blue Island, IL. The school has 175 students and serves preschool through grade eight, under the direction of Mrs. Susan Rys, principal. Students at St. Benedict have made a life-long commitment to service to the environment so that it is preserved for kids of the future.
St. Benedict Catholic School
Dotty Simmons is a grandmother from Dinsmore, California. Her family creates their own clean energy and doesn’t receive power from the main electrical grid. She is the owner of Simmons Natural Bodycare: Making Every Day Special 
Emily Sikes is a fifteen-year-old from Arkansas and a member of 4-H, where she is learning and teaching others about environmental issues, including the reuse of household items. 
Sara Sikes is a thirteen-year-old from Arkansas where she is setting an example for other kids and adults in using cloth bags to cut down on the waste of plastic. 
Linda Stein is the mother of two and owner of the green cosmetics company Zosimos Botanicals.
Tammie Umbel is the mother of eleven children. Along with her family, she manages a ten acre organic farm outside Leesburg VA.
Tammie is the owner and founder of Shea Terra Organics, a fair trade company which sells natural product made from Shea butter from Africa and allows African women to have a better life.
Jill A. Vanderwood is the author of four children’s books, including: What’s It Like, Living Green? Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way They Live. She has written this book to bring kids together to help save the earth. About Jill Vanderwood
Nicole Williams is a sixth-grade recycler from Utah who influences those around her to begin their own recycling program. 
Carrol Wolverton lives in Florida. She is the author of seven books, including Living Cheap and Loving it: tomatoes in the flower bed. Carrol teaches us how to save money along with tips for green living. 
Melissa Zenz is the mother of two from Florida who lives a dark green life, setting an example and letting her voice be heard in making changes for the earth and its creatures.
