Wendy Cooper Presidents Message Earthome is an organization whose target audience is the human species. Our goal is to educate about viable alternatives so that we can live our lives with most of our present amenities while also being in sync with the planet. Most of it has to do with embracing new lifestyle habits relevant to our daily choices. Groceries: * How far did this food travel relevant to fossil fuel use and pollution? * Was it grown locally in order to be its freshest and to support local farmers? * Is it free of pesticides, herbicides, genetic engineering processes, antibiotics, growth hormones, cruel animal practices? Cars: * How many miles per gallon? * How much pollution does it produce? * Does it use fuel with lower emissions, such as bio-diesel? * Do we consider carpooling, mass transit, combining our errands? Clothes, furniture, floor coverings, appliances: * Are there local stores that carry options that provide healthier choices? Might we choose Energy Star labeled appliances and natural fiber carpeting instead of nylon? Is the furniture wood harvested sustainably and a non-endangered species? * How much land, air and water pollution is caused by the manufacturing process of an item, its usage during its lifecycle and once its lifecycle is complete? * Do we realize that we "vote" with our dollars by choosing to support products whose companies have good ethics, act responsibly relevant to their employees, animals and the environment? Please check out our Earthome Projects page that exemplifies how each of us can make a huge impact on ourselves, our families and our planet by being conscious about our daily choices. In my business, Green Home Building Pro, Inc., and as a LEED Accredited Professional, I consult with building professionals and homeowners to incorporate these money saving/high performance alternatives into their new homes and home additions. I serve on the board of Inspiration Community and the Baltimore City Green Building Task Force. I am co-author in the recently published The Spirit of Women Entrepreneurs.
Mary Hardcastle Mary Hardcastle is dedicated to fostering environmental and social sustainability locally and globally. In addition to her role as Board Secretary for Earthome, Mary is the regional coordinator for Hooked On Nature, a national non-profit that helps adults help kids develop a loving relationship with nature, www.hookedonnature.org. She is also the contact for the Baltimore Leave No Child Inside movement, an initiative of the Children and Nature Network, www.cnaturenet.org. Along with her work in the community, Mary teaches communications courses at Goucher College and the Community College of Baltimore County. She has a long practice in the fields of theatre and filmmaking and uses her skills as a writer, director, and producer to create projects that promote social ecology.
Shelley Morhaim Shelley is at far right, with her husband Dan and daughters Lizz and Sarah Shelley Morhaim is an award-wining independent filmmaker and a long time environmental and community activist. In 1994 she was one of the founders of Earthome, and in 2000, she created Earthome Productions, whose project, "The Next Industrial Revolution," narrated by Susan Sarandon, presents the case for a sustainable economy. It has been screened all over the world, including broadcasts on PBS affiliates, as well as screenings at the Smithsonian Institutions and National Building Museum in Washington, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the National Museum of Science and Industry in London, England. Over 6,000 copies of the film have been sold on all five continents. She has also served on the boards of the Baltimore Jewish Council, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the Black/Jewish Forum of Baltimore, and the Maryland Commission for Women.
Ann Phillips	I have been a member of Earthome for many years and believe deeply in its mission to build a sustainable Earth Human relationship  and I have worked actively to support its many projects. I am a retired social worker, cofounder of the Baltimore Center for Attitudinal Healing and am a mother and grandmother. I have a profound concern for the direction of our country and the future of our children.
For twenty years I have served on a local  Board to review the cases of children in foster care and I know that what we are doing in so many areas is not working- our approach to education, to the enormous drug problems in our cities, to our children living in poverty. I believe that in each of us there is an instinctual bond to our planet and we need to work with young children and teenagers to reawaken that bond, to experience the wonders of the natural world and the joys of creativity. That is why I think Hooked on Nature holds such promise and possibility.
Mission The founding members of Earthome, Inc. believe that only through education can humanity learn what it must, to change its behavior such that life may continue on Earth. It is an educational organization whose goal is to discover, live and educate about how people working together can preserve, protect and live harmoniously with the one living system which supports all life on our planet. To be faithful to this goal, members of Earthome strive to first learn all they can about the one living system. Then to adjust their lifestyle, how they go about their daily lives, to more closely conform with what they have learned about the living system. And finally, to help other people learn about the living system by providing opportunities for people to study what they and others have learned. The projects that Earthome has sponsored and is currently sponsoring have reflected the above goals. The core of the founding members of Earthome have been working together for nearly fifteen years to educate about a new way of thinking which they believe is necessary for humanity. They have known for more than a decade that the way people in the industrialized world live is not sustainable and they have been educating about how to move toward sustainability for many years.
History Earthome, Inc. is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) organization chartered in June 1995 and has since that time sponsored a variety of projects. Earthome, Inc. entered into collaboration with Hooked On Nature in June 2005. Contact Information Ann Phillips 410 - 960 - 0948 annieone2@comcast.net