Earth angels

JESSICA BURNS
Job Burns helps put together socially conscious travel packages for a company called Greenheart Travel. Several trips provide travelers with environmental or preservation volunteer opportunities, but “I consider all social services green,” Burns says. “Being good to yourself and others is being good to your environment.”
On the side She keeps her heat at 58 degrees through the winter. “No one believes that I keep the heat so low,” Burns laughs. “Part of being green is not wasting things.”
Favorite green buys Greens from her backyard garden, planted with help from the master gardener program at University of Illinois Extension; plants from the Kilbourn Park garden sale (3501 N Kilbourn Ave, 773-685-3351, sale starts May 17); eggs at Green City Market (Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N Cannon Dr, Sat 25).
Eco-tip Burns recently greened-up her office with a worm bin, helping to eliminate trash and produce soil that’s reused in the company’s potted plants. She tells us how: Take a big plastic container, like a recycling bin—it has to have a lid and holes in the top. Buy a pound of worms and start it by adding them to wet paper. Then add food items, but don’t toss in dairy or meat. Twice a year, clean it out.

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