Vanderbilt Magazine Profiles The Green Wagon
The Vanderbilt Alumni Magazine highlighted The Green Wagon in
their latest issue in an article titled, "Big Ideas for a Small
Planet.
Jennifer Casale, owner of The Green Wagon and graduate of
Vanderbilt, is interviewed in the feature about living Green.
"The common misconception is that you have to have a lot of money
if you're going to buy products that are environmentally
friendly." explains Jennifer.
Jennifer Casale had always been a proponent of good
environmental practices, but she never truly appreciated the
earth's delicate balance until she lived in the desert. After
earning a Vanderbilt degree in English, Casale worked in the music
industry for a few years before pursuing a graduate degree in
creative writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson. There she
took a part-time job teaching elementary students about recycling
and water conservation. These young children understood the
challenge.
"Water is becoming a critical issue," Casale says. "The
environment is so extreme that people who live in the desert are
forced to be more aware of how to interact with it and how to
survive there."
Soon Casale was informally consulting about ways to be more
environmentally conscientious and advising people on where to get
organic and planet-friendly products. Although she could find these
products, she had to drive all over town to get what she needed.
She decided to open a one-stop shopping place for an array of
"green" products-an old-fashioned general store for a new
generation. She considered Nashville ripe for such a venture, so
she returned to her college town and opened The Green Wagon on
Murphy Road, only a few miles from Vanderbilt.
Read the rest of the
feature at Vanderbilt Magazine Online.
