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Annie B. Bond (previous married name: Berthold-Bond) (Born in 1953) is the best-selling author of five green living books and (literally) thousands of other articles, Annie B. Bond has been called “the foremost expert on green living” by Body & Soul magazine (in 2009, now Whole Living). Others call her the “godmother of green.” She developed central nervous system damage after being poisoned by a gas leak in a restaurant where she worked in 1980 that sent 80 people to the hospital, and followed by an organophosphate pesticide poisoning in the apartment building where she lived, she was left severely chemically sensitive. It took eight years to return to living a normal life by her unerring drive to live in clean air, moving 10 times in four years. Once she found such an oasis her body bounced back quickly and she has lived a normal life ever since. Her career shifted from being a painter and sculptor to becoming a leading authority on nontoxic living. Her daughter Lily Berthold-Bond was born in 1988.

Accomplishments
Bond's first book, Clean & Green (Ceres Press, 1989), was a runaway best-seller. She has decades of experience as a writer and editor about the connections between the environment, personal health and well-being. With an expert eye for hidden pollutants (honed by her own experience with chemical poisoning), she works to offer a healthy and timeless way of life that is in harmony with the earth.

Her second book was The Green Kitchen Handbook (HarperCollins, 1996), written with Mothers & Others for a liveable planet. Meryl Streep wrote the forward.

Bond's third book, Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1998), is also a best-seller. It offers hundreds of formulas for nontoxic living solutions in the home, from cleaning formulas to those for bodycare, beauty, renovating, and more.

Bond's fourth book, Home Enlightenment (Rodale Press, 2005), offers a quote from Deepak Chopra, with whom she has worked as an editor and is a comprehensive guide to establishing a naturally, healthy sanctuary within your home

Bond's latest book called True Food (National Geographic, 2010), with Melissa Breyer and Wendy Gordon, was the winner of Gourmand Awards Best Health and Nutrition Cookbook in the World award.

Besides writing books Bond has been a founding editor of many publications, including "Green Alternatives" (founded in 1990), Mothers & Others for a Liveable Planet's "The Green Guide" (later bought by National Geographic), founder of GreenChiCafe.com and Terraspheres.com, and currently the editor-in-chief of TheWellnessWire.com. She was the executive editor of green living at Care2.com for eight years, until 2008.

Bond fields over 100 media requests a year and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences; many of the events are to give keynotes.

Bond has also launched an e-commerce site, A True Find, Shopping for a Sustainable World with Annie Bond (atruefind.com). Her intention is to offer educational blogs about products she would choose to have in her home because she feels they are environmentally safe or otherwise support a sustainable world.