About Us

Green Living Quantified is dedicated to providing information about the latest science in climate change and environmental issues, quantifying positive actions, and providing choices to show how you can make a difference.

My own story is that I would take on a personal environmental project every year. The projects I chose fit into my life and included:

• Performing energy audits at my home (near where I worked) and my husband’s home (where he worked.) I felt a breeze over my face as I slept in my house, and performed energy efficiency to the point where both houses rated in energy consumption much lower than our neighbors’.
• Including environmental issues in my teaching, at a university, addressing energy efficiency and computer waste.
• Planting peach and apple trees, berry bushes, perennial vegetables, and native plants on my property.
• Recruiting neighbors and subsidizing trees for the parkway on my husband’s block.
• Purchasing two high miles-per-gallon hybrid cars (one about 10 years after the other).
• Participating in installing solar panels on one home.
• Eating vegan, substantially organic. Have belonged to a CSA many years.
• Taking Amtrak trains, when they went where I was going; also reducing long-distance travel.
• Purchasing a zoom account to keep up weekly with relatives who live far away.
• Writing and publishing research (conference and journal papers) on the impact of diet on greenhouse gases, when I noticed errors in current research.
• Completing a graduate certificate in environmental sustainability, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2025.
• Purchasing energy efficient appliances: electric ranges, furnace.

My life is not perfect from an environmental perspective, but I have selected the best options for my life, and I would like to provide options for you. I hope you find useful information here, and if you have a story to tell, I would love to hear it!