About The Green Mama Project

 

Many moms today are acutely aware of the seemingly insurmountable world of needs that exist. From the AIDS pandemic in Africa to children in slavery, impoverished communities, to looming environmental disasters. They know that millions of children are homeless, millions more die of perfectly curable diseases, and millions of mothers both here in the US and around the world are hungry for a better way to raise their children. What they don’t know is what to do about it. 

The Green Mama Project is an attempt to bring everyday moms, dads, and families the opportunity to make a big difference in this world. Even when they feel somehow inefficient and perhaps even useless because they cannot hop a plane to Africa or even volunteer to teach Sunday school. It is a movement of moms who are doing their best everyday, from right where they are, to impact the world. 

It may be as simple as a daily cup of fair trade coffee, a local gardening or trail clean up project, ditching disposable bottles and dishes, or praying regularly for a people group you may never meet. Making a difference can look like walking to the park instead of driving, smiling at a stranger, or teaching your children how to engage someone with a different language, cultural customs or economic reality. Simple things, everyday, add up to big changes.

The Green Mama Project is designed to pull resources and people together to make a difference everyday. From supporting and connecting women with microfinance projects around the world, to setting them loose to impact their local ecosystems and addressing environmental concerns. Green Mamas everywhere seek justice, hope, and peace for the world through their everyday habits and lives.

Tracey Bianchi is the creator of The Green Mama Project and the mother of three young children who is doing her part to save a few resources and lots of trees so her great-great grandchildren can climb them someday. She’s mostly an over-committed mom, friend, daughter, and impossible to live with spouse who makes tacos every week because she cannot cook anything else.

But when she’s not wiping yogurt off the baby’s face or pulling metal trains out of the couch cushions, she is a well received author and speaker. Her first book Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet (Zondervan) is due out in March of 2010. She hops around speaking at various churches, schools, and conferences on how to make this world a bit brighter for our kids, a bit more like God had in mind when he created this place. She speaks and writes for MOPS International, Christianity Today’s Gifted for Leadership Blog, FullFill Magazine as well as a variety of other organizations. She currently serves as the Coordinator of Women’s Ministry at Christ Church of Oak Brook just outside of Chicago. She earned her Master’s of Divinity degree from Denver Seminary in 2003 and since that time has been juggling marriage, family and career. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but finding the balance is half the fun.