Grass is Greener

Environmental pioneer Gay Browne, who founded Greenopia, a city guide to more than 110,000 sustainable businesses, has just launched her latest work, Living With a Green Heart: How To Keep Your Body, Your Home and the Planet Healthy in a Toxic World.

“It took me 18 months to write and I’m planning two other books in the trilogy, one about pregnancy set for next fall and another one about eating properly, which I’ll publish in 2021,” she told me at a bijou bash at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village.

Twenty-five years ago Gay, a contributing editor for The Huffington Post, set out to create an “optimal environmental health space,” designing and constructing the first environmentally responsible home of its kind, which was featured on the cover of the L.A. Times Homes section.