Grassroots Sustainability  
A Guide to Organizing a Thriving Community

About the Authors

Lisa Chipkin is a freelance artist and writer with a passion for global and local food and water issues and sustainability. Following a career in theater performance, production, art direction, education and  management, Lisa served as a lead campaign coordinator for the successful Bay Area “Stop the Spray” campaign in 2008, and in 2010 as Water Sustainability Coordinator for the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network’s 10,000 Rain Gardens Project. This is her first book.
Pam Hartwell-Herrero grew up on a hobby farm in Minnesota and learned sustainability the easy way, by living it. Raised by a mother and grandmother who were dedicated volunteers, Pam learned to live sustainably by doing. She served as the Executive Director of Sustainable Fairfax, Marin County’s leading organization on sustainability advocacy and education for six years, was a board member of Sustainable Marin during that time. In 2009 she was elected to the Fairfax Town Council, and later served as Mayor of Fairfax.

Featured by Dirt Diva Annie Spiegelman on Huffington Post! 

Journalist and Dirt Diva Annie Spiegelman interviews us on how important collaboration is in building sustainability into our communities. Read the interview to learn more.

Watch our interview on Marin TV!

We were featured on 'Making a Difference in Marin' with Host Lindsay Hassett. Watch the interview to learn more about our book!


Watch Pam Hartwell-Herreror's speech at the Green Party Convention!

Pam was a featured speaker at the Green Party Convention in
Baltimore, MD where she explained how Fairfax, CA is the only majority Green Party town council in the county. Watch the speech to learn more about Fairfax and its community leadership!


Other Contributors

Illustrations:
Jen Jones
Kristin Jakob, www.kristinjakob.com

Book Design:
Scott Valentino, www.sevmedia.net