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About Us

Houston Green Scene strives to be Houston's comprehensive guide to all things green!  All green people, green places, green things--including eco-friendly and socially responsible businesses and organizations.  We are a member-based organization focused on building community and encouraging sustainable relationships. We believe green efforts can be effortless and recognize that informed, conscious choices improve our quality of life as well as the impact on our community and our environment.  Individually we can make a difference but collectively we can make it fun! 
 
Join us today. Sign up for our newsletter.  Attend our monthly mixers (see Events calendar for more info).
 
We welcome and value your ideas, thoughts, stories, events, pictures, blogs, videos, songs--whatever you'd like to contribute.

Our mission is connecting, informing and inspiring Houstonians for a Greener Houston.  Are you ready?

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
 

Tracy L. Barnett is a Houston-based writer and bilingual multimedia journalist specializing in sustainable travel, particularly throughout Texas, the Southwestern US and Latin America. Before becoming a travel writer, she worked as an environmental reporter, as an immigration affairs reporter and as a founder and editor of publications for the Latino immigrant community. She has served as travel editor of the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. As an independent writer, she seeks to integrate the issues she is most knowledgeable and passionate about: sustainability, cultural exchange and travel.

Tracy is also the founder of The Esperanza Project, a non-profit project that will develop over 2010.  Beginning in Mexico in January and ending in Patagonia in December. The idea is to visit and document creative and resourceful sustainability projects throughout the Americas, sharing ideas and gleaning inspiration from those she meets along the way.

Follow, support and join The Esperanza Project online. and follow her on twitter:@thirstyboots07

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Vickas Dangayach is a native Houstonian and a graduate of Rice University. He is currently completing his final year of a combined MD/MBA program at Baylor College of Medicine. As the National Student Section President of the American College of Medical Quality, he realized that current quality initiatives in healthcare do not encompass many aspects of sustainable healthcare that contribue to quality care of patients. This realization coupled with his passion for environmental stewardship led him to the sustainable movement in healthcare. He currently is a member of Practice Greenhealth, a leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. It is his hope to discus a myriad of topics related to sustainability in healthcare, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas to help advance the green cause in healthcare here in Houston.  He can be reached at greendocvick@gmail.com.

 

Read his Blog: GreenDocVick or follow him on Twitter: @greendocvick
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Nicole Bruder is the founder and owner of Lucy Goo Pet Sitting. Nicole believes that all living creatures should be treated kindly and with respect, as well as the Earth they live on. Wanting to do more to preserve the world in which our wonderful pets live in, Nicole felt a need for an eco-friendly pet business, and thus began Lucy Goo Pet Sitting.
Ms. Bruder has a master's degree in early childhood education and an extensive background working with young children. Throughout her career as a teacher, Nicole arranged for many animals to visit the children in her classroom, including baby emus, a giant turtle, and a pot-bellied pig. Additionally, Nicole also scheduled 'zoo' days, where the children were encouraged to bring in their own pets. Each child was responsible for a written biography of their pet, and a report about their species. Knowing more about our pets helps us to understand them. Knowing more about our earth will hopefully aide us in saving it.
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Founders

Robert Metzger is the web designer and web service specialist for Houston Green Scene.  He is also the owner of OpenAllOver.com.  OpenAllOver provides complete digital business solutions including web design, programming, marketing and consulting as well as managing personalized e-mail accounts, custom web design and re-design.

OpenAllOver.com is Houston-based and takes pride in serving and supporting local businesses. Contributing to and working with the local community is as important to OAO.com as providing services.
 
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Mona Metzger brings the same passion for mindful living to her business as the owner of Urban Green Clean, a business that provides all-natural cleaning and recycling services to homes and offices, as she does for the community.  As co-founder of Houston Green Scene she brings together people of like mind and spirit with local green businesses, organizations and initiatives of worthy causes.

Mona is regularly featured on PBS and makes special appearances on local, Channel 39's Going Green with Yolanda Green.  She teams up with a number of organizations and hosts monthly Green Mixers and luncheons to keep the environmentally friendly and socially responsible collaborating.

With more than two decades' experience as an activists, an educator, world traveler and behavioral specialist, she incorporates fresh social media and web development skills along with community organizing and social networking to this project.  She holds degrees from the University of Houston.

Her vision of a better world manifests itself by serving on boards of select non-profit organizaitons and working as a volunteer and committee member on many.  She has hosted a number of fundraisers including one for KPFT Pacifica Radio.  Futhermore, she published the first Houston Green Gudie and is co-founder of Houston's Annual Green Fest.

"Being green," she says, "is about being on a journey of learning, greater awareness and deeper understanding--and then doing what you can, when you can, because you can."