Easy Green - Softcover

Belma Michael Johnson is the Chicago host of "Designed to Sell," the top-rated series on HGTV. In every episode, the "Designed to Sell" team uses a $2,000 budget to help real homeowners upgrade their home to make it more competitive in the marketplace. The primetime series follows the process from the initial (mostly negative) review by a professional realtor to the ooh-ahh reveal of the finished product at a legitimate open house. With humor and often-questionable carpentry skills, Belma Michael Johnson leads the team to the finish line. Over 90% of the homes featured on the series have actually sold. Belma Michael Johnson is also creator of BelmaMichael dot-com a social-networking site and free online college for creative people all over the world. Belma Michael Johnson also founded the Worldwide Writing Wiki, which uses the same software that powers Wikipedia to organize writers, illustrators, editors, and artists into "wiki villages" that collaborate on stories, which are to be published as books. Belma Michael Johnson also started teh Hollywood 2.0 movement as part of BelmaMichael dot-com. Hollywood 2.0 is for the new generation of entertainment professionals who seek greater control over their creative destinies in this digital era. At this virtual think-tank, creative professionals contemplate the new and improved versions of nearly every entertainment-related field: Web 2.0 Books 2.0 TV 2.0 Radio 2.0 Film 2.0 Music 2.0 Art 2.0 Photography 2.0 Merchandise 2.0 Copyright 2.0 Sales & Marketing 2.0 Distribution 2.0 Belma Michael Johnson is also an accomplished producer of television series for major studios (Paramount, CBS/King World, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Buena Vista/Disney, NBC/Universal) and networks (NBC, Fox, MTV, VH-1, TV-One, BET, HGTV, Comedy Central). He has hosted for many of the same studios and networks. "Easy Green" is his fifth published book. "And yet," he enjoys pointing out, "I received a 'C' in Advanced Composition from Miss Patty Boettcher in my sophomore year in high school and all of my writings were rejected by editor Kelly Sturgeon - or was it Spurgeon? - at my high-school paper." He has worked in an eclectic variety of jobs: janitor, poet, comedian, gardener, painter, screenwriter, actor, instructor, workshop presenter, music superviser, magazine editor, newspaper reporter, liner-notes writer, record producer, music critic, veejay, Hollywood correspondent, field reporter, and film critic. He says, "I aspire to be a citizen of the world and mayor of my childhood hometown, Dana Point, California."