Grand Junction woman publishes "Green Guide" — your guide to all things green locally

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Sharon Sullivan
Free Press Staff Writer
March 3, 2008

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    GRAND JUNCTION — Melissa Lind always knew what she wanted to do.

    As a Fruita Monument High School student, Lind worked for Meadowlark Designers (Gardens) in Grand Junction for two years before earning a degree in landscape architecture from Arizona State University in Tempe. The program there was based on sustainability.

    Lind returned to her roots in the Grand Valley where she started Land Ecology — a landscape architecture and eco-logic consulting business.

    “We have such a great place here. It made so much sense to use plants suited to this climate,” Lind said.

    Six months ago Lind contacted another “green” business — Brett Walton’s Bio-Green organic lawn system. Wanting to promote other like-minded businesses, Lind and Walton contacted others providing sustainable services. They wanted to create a “pro-environment, pro-business, non-partisan network.”

     A few people showed up at that initial meeting last fall. Last month there were 90.
Meetings are held monthly, the second Thursday of each month, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Mesa State College in the Science Building.

    Lind and her husband, Jared Clark, also own AIM Mail Center where they’ve printed a “Green Guide of the Grand Valley” with a listing and description of 26 different businesses — a list that’s growing every month. The directory is available for free at the shipping and copy center, 683 Horizon Drive, next to Safeway.

    Listings include businesses such as High Noon Solar-Solar Systems, Serra Construction - residential green building, and Osage Gardens-Colodado Organic Growers of Fine Culinary Herbs.

    “We have geothermal, solar, builders and developers, green cleaning services, bio-degradable cleaning supplies,” Lind said.

    The Green Guides’ first project as a group, Lind said, is to help High Noon Solar organize Earth Day celebrations for April 19 at the Mesa County Fairgrounds.
Reusable shopping bags with a listing of all the businesses listed in the directory, will be available at the Green Guides’ booth at the Earth Day event.

    For more information contact 778-0582, or landecology@gmail.com

    Read the full story Tuesday in the Grand Junction Free Press or online at gjfreepress.com.