OrganicAuthority is your trusted ally and the web‘s leading resource for all things… delicious and organic! Come chill in our kitchen as we test drive tried-and-true mouthwatering recipes and chat about the organic lifestyle. From the most mojo-rific of foods, juicy of spirits to your eco chic entertaining table, energetic health and the most scrumptiously delicious beauty, we’ve made it our job and passion to cover organics from the inside out, the outside in and all the way around. At OrganicAuthority you‘ll discover how to grow your first apartment herb garden, how to host a summer BBQ your friends will rave about for seasons to come, which natural deodorants actually work, and so much more. We believe that delicious food is synonymous with healthy vibrant fare; grungy, dull, boring, bland, granola "hippie food" is a stereotype of the past and not us. Through supporting sustainable agriculture, we enrich our own lives, each other’s lives and the life of our planet. OrganicAuthority has all the tips and expert advice you need for delicious living good.

Our Editorial Team 

We're devoted to going green — in delicious style. Each one of us takes up the cause in a unique way, sharing all points of view with OA readers. Meet the team and join in the conversation.

Laura Klein —  Editor-in-Chief, Publisher 

Laura Klein co-founder of OrganicAuthority.com upgrades the fading “grungy” image of what it means to go green.  A trained chef with roots in the organic food movement, Laura is a living embodiment of the green lifestyle. She brings intelligence, intoxicating energy and girl-next-door approachability to the subject of living green. Laura has been featured in The Oprah Magazine, Oprah.com, The Food Network, Women's World, Malibu Times and more. She also was featured in the book Hot, Rich, and Green and blogs for the Huffington Post. Her and Organic Authority's posts regularly appear on the Huffington Post and AOL.

For more information on Laura visit Laura Klein's bio page.

John Klein - CTO and Contributing Writer  

John Klein co-founded OrganicAuthority.com with his wife Laura Klein. As a lover of technology and savvy developer, he's worked at large technology companies including Internet Brands, Autobytel.com and more. He is passionate about green and healthy living.

Spencer Kent — Director Of Social Media

Born in 1986 to an Emmy-winning writer and a graphic designer, Spencer has been learning all his life how to influence and communicate through media. After recieving a BA in Journalism and Public Relations from CSUN, he then proceeded to spend the next four years using his expertise in social media, public relations, writing, and marketing to professionally enhance the outreach efforts of both small and large businesses. 

When he finds time for himself, he enjoys writing and recording music, surfing Los Angeles’ vast culinary landscape, and booking as many domestic and international adventures as his lifespan and schedule will allow. His favorite place in the USA is New Orleans; His favorite place in the world is Barcelona. His home is West Hollywood.

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Andrea Manitsas — Contributing Writer & Editor

SF Bay Area born and bred, Andrea joined the vegetarian ranks at a ripe young age, soon thereafter graduating to full-fledged vegan. Her animal-adoring totes in hand, she soared across the country to the land of vegan restaurants aplenty, graduating from NYU with a degree in Environmental Ethics and Creative Writing. She exercised a good amount of wanderlust over three continents, and found herself eventually drawn back to her roots where she opened a vegan cupcake catering company called Peace, Love & Cupcakes and began writing about going green and living healthfully for all manner of publications. You’ll also find Andrea teaching yoga around town and scouring the farmers market’s booths for this week’s kabocha squash stew melange.

You can contact Andrea at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and/or follow her on twitter @iheartyogasf.

Jill Ettinger — Contributing Writer

Jill Ettinger is a Los Angeles based writer and photographer contributing to leading publications such as Reality Sandwich, LiveStrong, Global Rhythm and The Examiner. Her focus includes food and wellness, the healing arts, music and world culture. Jill was published in the anthologies "Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age" and "What Do You Believe?" And she is also a contributing author in the forthcoming Dictionary of Ethical Politics. Follow Jill on Twitter @jillettinger.

Shilo Urban — Contributing Writer

Shilo first became interested in conscious living when she found herself working simultaneously at a mom-and-pop natural food store and a farm for endangered livestock breeds on the coast of Maine. After residing in Austin, New Zealand, Paris and Seattle, she now lives in gorgeous Los Angeles where she enjoys work as a freelance writer, events promoter and new media expert.

Deeply involved in the international electronic music scene, Shilo works with many pioneering producers and cultural festivals, helping to foster a global arts community based on creative self-expression, the sacred playground and post-genre music. She writes for dozens and dozens of websites, print magazines and organizations; her favorite employers are the independent music label Alpha Pup Records, absurdist theatrical performance troupe Lucent Dossier, and of course - OrganicAuthority. She's active on Twitter as @shilonikelle. 

Lacy Boggs — Contributing Writer

Lacy Boggs is a freelance writer and editor living the dream in beautiful Colorado.  Lacy loves to write almost as much as she loves to eat and she has parlayed that into a fabulous job as a food writer, which has won her several journalism awards.

When she and her husband bought their first home in 2009, they decided to make organic, sustainable living a part of their everyday. Lacy has spent the last three years learning to landscape with edible plants, grow her own food, preserve and put up the season's bounty, forage locally, and DIY like there's no tomorrow. Now, with their first child in the picture, she's added making her own baby food, cloth diapering, and green toys to her growing list of organic experience.  

You can read more of Lacy's food writing at her blog, Formation of a Foodie, and you can follow her on Twitter @LacyLu42.

Kimberley Stakal — Contributing Writer

Kimberley Stakal is a writer, editor, and recipe developer with a delicious habit of sticking too many fingers in too many pots. Her training in health-supportive culinary arts, combined with her background in sustainability, has led to a meaningful career writing for food, eco, and lifestyle outlets. When not writing for Organic Authority, Kimberley also manages content for Whisked Foodie, creates recipes for web sites, and develops and edits cookbooks. Her lifelong dream is to inspire others to live a good life through writing and teaching, to live surrounded by nature, and to learn to sail the seas. She’s almost there. Learn more about Kimberley at her website and follow her on Twitter @GreenGourmetKim.

Patricia Conte — Contributing Writer

Patricia Conte is a writer with more than 20 years of professional experience and currently writes for several websites and companies. With a passion for cooking and for food, it should come as no surprise that among the subject matter she writes about, including health and wellness, food is a regular topic. Patricia is also a food blogger. Visit her site, Grab a Plate (http://www.azgrabaplate.com), for recipes and food ideas and follow her on Twitter: @AZgrabaplate.

Patricia is enthusiastic about living a healthy lifestyle, yoga and hiking, and is a life-long Cleveland Cavaliers fan.

Kirsten Hudson — Contributing Writer

Kirsten Hudson is a Midwest-based freelance writer. She’s a journalism graduate from the University of Kansas.

She grew up green without completely realizing it.  As a kid she loved salvaging items from garage sales to revamp and sell at her dad’s flea market booth, or to use for decorating her room. Her childhood room was a constant work in progress.

Her love for green living expanded when she completed an editorial internship with Natural Home magazine during college. Today, she loves finding ways to decorate her home without buying new items. She is obsessed with anything vintage, refuses to eat American cheese and gets a strange thrill on trash day about having the least amount of garbage on the block. You can follow her on Twitter @kirsten_hudson.

Hayley Krischer – Contributing Writer

Hayley Krischer's essays and features have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Babble and Parenting. She received her master's in creative writing from Lesley University and previous to her freelance writing career, she was the Home & Garden editor at iVillage.com. Hayley has been a vegetarian since she was 10 years old. Gradually, her vegetarian interest led her to becoming a buyer at the San Francisco-based Thom's Natural Foods, an organic grocery, where she liked to swoon over Chris Isaak, a regular customer. She blogs about parenting at blenderfamily.blogspot.com and more of her work can be found at hayleykrischer.com. She lives in New Jersey with her two kids and husband, a meat eater who loves tofu. You can also follow her on Twitter @hayleykrischer.

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