I am honored to be a part of the Clean Green Ceramics initiative. Though my pottery production in my home studio is very small, I invested in the certification program to build a framework of assessing the environmental impacts of my emerging business, because I know that if I want to see change, I need to start with my own actions. I hope that this accountability will lead my customers to have a deeper respect and appreciation of my work and that it may inspire other ceramic artists to contemplate their impacts and take similar action. When earth is literally what your art is made of, you have every reason to treat it with respect.