Anna Sova
Answers Phil’s questions

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For those of us who wish to lead our lives without indoor toxins, we have Anna Sova. Anna Sova is a radically different company. Her products encompass the luxurious organic lifestyle with eco-safe, earth and body friendly wall finishes, sensuous SKAL approved eco-silk bedding, vibrant hand printed and 440 thread count 100% organic cotton bedding, Italian jacquard sheets, natural baby alpaca, organic Belgian linen bedding, 100% soy based candles, luxurious 100% organic cotton towels, and a pure aromatherapy body product line.

How does it relate to green, good or giving?
We make the worlds best quality Organic cotton bed and bath products.

What are you working on at the moment? Any major projects?
Italian Old world quality linens in certified organic cotton. It has taken 12 years of textile research and design to build products this beautiful AND pure.

How do you get to work? 
Biodiesel Mercedes

What long and winding road led you to your current position?
Interior and product designer for over 25 years

Where were you born? Where do you live now?
I was raised on an equestrian horse farm in Texas. We were the odd ducks who had saddles without horns on them.

What has been the worst moment in your professional life to date?
On June 26 2006 my 45,000. sq ft manufacturing, showroom and office building was burned to the ground in a six alarm fire.

What's been the best?
Building Eco safe products people told us could not be built. Such as our Patented Home paint made out of food grade ingredients!

Green

What environmental offense has infuriated you the most?
25% of the worlds insecticides are used on cotton!! Leading to loss of plant, insect, bird and animal biodiversity and toxic ground water runoff,etc,etc.

Who is your environmental hero?
Rachel Louise Carson. She was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are often credited with launching the global environmental movement.

What's your environmental vice?
Water use, however I believe salt-water desalination plants will provide the majority of the worlds water in the next 20 years. Texas is currently building the largest in the world in Galveston.

Which stereotype about environmentalists most fits you?
Chanel with Birkenstocks

What's your favorite place or ecosystem?
Untouched parts of Big Bend, Texas, or Southern Italy, where the Italian Government has limited development.

If you could institute by fiat one environmental reform, what would it be?
Make the majority of commercial and residential pesticides and insecticides completely illegal and encourage alternative natural forms of pest balance.

Good

What is the best idea you’ve heard lately?
BMW 7 Hydrogen car! It is touted as the first hydrogen-drive luxury performance automobile for everyday use.

What is your motto?
Everything is possible thru hard work, ingenuity and Gods help.

What is your favorite virtue?
Loyalty

How do you spend your free time?
Reading voraciously

What's your favorite meal?
Fresh vegetables and fruits according to season. Fresh Pasta anytime!

Giving

What is your philosophy of giving?
We should always appreciate our gifts and share as much as possible with those in need.

What is your first memory of volunteering or making a donation?
As a small child giving to families on Christmas Eve.

What organization are you affiliated with presently?
We have our own corporate homeless and battered women hiring program.

What category or causes do you support philosophically or financially?
Greenpeace, Doctors without Borders, Sierra Club, Multiple Organic Cotton Co ops in India and etc.

Where do you volunteer?
Mostly in India.

Who is your role model for giving?
My Grandmother

What inspires your impulse to give or volunteer?
A sense of responsibility to help others.

Finally

Who was your favorite musical artist when you were 18? How about now?
Rolling Stones, Vedic and Gregorian chants.

What's your favorite movie?
Syriana and Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett

Which actor would play you in the story of your life?
Hopefully not Kermit the frog.

If you could have every Phil reader do one thing, what would it be?
Change 50% of their complete cotton purchases to organic. annasova.com