Mindy Pennybacker's primary passion, after family and friends, of course, is the ocean. Then California mountain meadows with lupine and Indian paintbrush in bloom. It is her mission to help save this great wilderness and protect human health from unnecessary polluting exposures.  A journalist and fiction writer, she recently founded GreenerPenny.com, a website and blogsdedicated to affordable, healthy green living and the simple steps we all can take, every day, to preserve our health and the planet we depend on.