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Linda Mason Hunter has researched and written 12 books as well as hundreds of articles and tips on architecture, design, and living in balance with nature. She is also known for her in-depth interviews and feature writing.

Three of her most successful books focus on sustainable living - The Healthy Home: An Attic-To-Basement Guide To Toxin-Free Living (Rodale, 1989), Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home (with Mikki Halpin; Melcher, 2005), and Creating a Safe & Healthy Home (CPI, 2005). She also wrote and produced five home renovation and remodeling books for Better Homes and Gardens in the 1990s, teamed with Matthew Schoenherr and Wendy Jordan to write two more for Taunton Press in 2005 and 2007; produced and wrote Southwest Style: A Home-Lover’s Guide to Architecture and Design (Northland) in 2000, and compiled two desktop calendars of green living tips (Sellers) for 2010 and 2011.

Her articles have appeared in such mass circulation magazines as Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, and Family Circle as well as in such environmental, trade, and housing-related publications as Home Energy, Natural Home, Mother Earth News, Eco@Home, Fine Home Building, Ultimate Home Design, and Utne Reader.

Since publication of her first book in 1989, Hunter's work continues to earn national recognition. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and many others have published articles and book reviews, and she has appeared on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” CNN's “Daybreak” and “Earth Watch,” and programs aired on CNBC, MSNBC, and the CBC, to name a few. In 1992 she founded Healthy Home Designs, marketing architect-designed home plans on the Internet. One of her plans, Maple Forest, was featured in the PBS television series "Hometime."

Hunter was one of the founders of GreenHome.com in 1999. In 2007 she was one of three experts short-listed to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s Earth Day television show. Currently, she sits on the advisory board of EcoFocus Worldwide (www.ecofocusworldwide.com) and she hosts her own daily radio program "Green Zone," providing a wealth of tips promoting sustainability with daily choices and actions.

Magazine editors recognize Hunter as a valuable thought leader and routinely consult her as an expert source on sustainable living. She averages several interviews a month, including (most recently) Parenting (circulation 2.2 million), State Farm’s Good Neighbor Canada, and IdeasThatSpark.com (a budget-conscious, how-to website for busy moms, syndicated across 212 websites including CBS, AOL, Fox, ABC, and NBC news, reaching an average 90,000 user sessions a month)--thus regularly keeping her name before the public.

In her effort to bring the message of inspiring, ecological, and wiser living to wider audiences, she speaks to all sizes of groups, either singly or on a panel. Past bookings include EPIC Sustainable Expo (Vancouver BC, 2008) and Center on Sustainable Communities (Des Moines, IA 2007). She consults with individual homeowners as well as corporations and organizations. Current clients include Center on Wellness Resources (Tampa, FL), EcoFocus (Worldwide), Green & Main (Des Moines, IA), and Blank/Sawyer bungalow (Des Moines, IA). And she aids in marketing products and services (Shaklee Corp., New York City 2007; Verde Partners, Des Moines, IA, 2009-2011). 

She is co-owner of Mill Creek Development, a 140-acre wooded tract divided into 1 1/2 to 5 acre lots in Dallas County west of Des Moines (see www.millcreekdevelopment.net).

For more information, contact Linda directly at Linda@HunterInk.com

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