"Born to Live Green is a rare treasure. Candia Lea Cole shares a personal journey to wholeness that both inspires us and challenges us to reevaluate our own commitment to an eco-friendly partnership with the earth. It’s a timely invitation to wake up to the urgency of our times and contemplate our roles in co-creating a sustainable future.”

Tricia Webster—Creator, Sustainable Leadership

“The world needs mentors who have walked the walk as Candia Lea Cole has. She describes for us in Born to Live Green how we can learn to know and experience the eco-intelligence that guides us to live in balance and harmony with ourselves and with others. What an incredibly important task Ms. Cole is performing in teaching families to do this work through her Eco-Learning Legacy Bring Back the Earth!

Dr. William Manahan, M.D.—Author and Assistant Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School

"In Born to Live Green, we get a glimpse of a beautiful spirit, whose tender, candid, and impassioned life invites us to become the eco-friendly world we are all longing to see and experience. A must-read for the emerging adult, and those who nurture them!"

Susan Marie Lawlor—Parent and Life-Long Learner

"In Born to Live Green, we discover that Candia is one for whom passion is a way of life. Whether she's blending up a recipe for personal healing purposes or putting together an Eco-Learning Legacy for all of humanity (such as the one we learn about in this book), you can lay odds she's going at it passionately. Candia's heart is so big it holds her family, her friends, her community, and her planet, with still more room should something else come along attracting her passion. In today's movement to take responsibility for our health and our environment, Candia shows us the path that led her to create an admixture of instructions for accomplishing both with the least effort. Everyone grab a seat; class is about to begin at Eco-Mentor U."

David Bonello, Publisher, Minnesota Wellness Directory

"After we have strayed so far from Nature in so many ways, there is nothing our society needs more urgently than to Bring Back the Earth! If we can help our young (and not-so-young!) community members become well-versed in the ways of eco-intelligent living, to see the connection between the Earth and ourselves, we will be able to realize the healing that we and our planet so desperately need at this time. The “Bring Back the Earth!” Eco-Learning Legacy is a powerful tool to help make that connection and develop responsible stewards of the Earth. When you sit down to read Born to Live Green, you will soon see and appreciate how this learning legacy was born in Candia’s life to serve ALL of us in mothering the earth, as it has long mothered us."

Monica Matos, Founder Ten Moons Rising Holistic Family Education

“In Born to Live Green, we gain a rare understanding of the ways that we are pressured into conformity at a very young age and how “outside standards” for living almost always “take away” our freedom to make healthy and sustainable life choices. What we can reclaim through this awareness, is the idea that, there is essential value in honoring our authentic needs, -especially if we are going to live well on earth in ways that are aligned with our “eco-intelligence” and that give us permission to claim our personal power."

Jean O’ Hern—Naturopathic Medicine Consultant & Owner of Nature’s Wisdom Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Leaders in today’s world are hungering for a “time-out” for deep, genuine, transformative conversation as they prepare to step forward and serve in these times. And this book stimulates that conversation-with our family members and friends. In the book Born to Live Green, we find a story of hope and transformation. We find a roadmap of how to identify the values of a whole and nourished life. We find practices that are deeply rooted in personal and human development which bring together all aspects of our lives with the core principles of leadership. Candia Lea Cole is a visionary practitioner that we can all trust to lead us on the educational path that explores living healthy, whole, and sustainable lives."

Patricia Neal, Co-founder & CEO Heartland Inc.