Crissy's journey to becoming a green author and green living specialist started long before green living was as popular and talked-about as it is today. She recalls her early experiences with green living, which included everything from making her own natural cleaning concoctions to riding her bike to work (rain or shine) to eyebrow-raising examples of reuse (that's a whole other story!)--as gratifying, but lonely. Reducing, reusing and recycling back in the 1990s was looked upon as more hippy-dippy-trippy than ecologically imperative. And it was precisely these misconceptions about greener living---as well as complacency about choices and habits that were eroding environmental health---that prompted Crissy to launch GreenMatters.com, a unique website (this was the 90s, remember) that would debunk myths about greener living and would be a resource for busy, modern people looking for information on going green, practical green tips and trustworthy sources for earth-friendly products. Since starting GreenMatters.com in 1998, Crissy has dedicated herself to helping people learn how to create greener spaces and adopt greener practices. Her first book, It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living, was a labor of love that took two years to finish. Taking the title and the "handbook" angle seriously, Crissy created a book that shows how people living busy, complicated lives can do a lot more than just put their blue recycling box out on the curb each week. Crissy's second book, Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better: The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Planet, Saving Money and Protecting Your Health, details the money-saving side of greener, healthier, simpler living. Crissy wrote this book because, while the message that we need to change the way we live has been out there for some time, voluntary change has increased only slightly since 2000. She knew that encouraging people to engage in more green behaviors would require powerful incentives--like saving money. With this in mind, Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better mobilizes readers to follow through on earth-friendly actions by showing how they can begin reaping economic rewards right away as a result of adopting a greener lifestyle.