EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#10-#6)

We’re getting close to the end of our countdown of the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green, and the best is still yet to come. Today’s lineup features musicians, an actor, a chef and the founder of one of the hottest environmental blogs on the web. Check out our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green if you missed it last week - and don’t forget to come back tomorrow for #5-#1!

10. Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder of the famed grunge rock band Pearl Jam has long been known for his activism, both in the political and environmental arenas. Eddie frequently takes part in fundraisers and benefits for groups like the Kelly Slater Foundation and Jack Johnson’s Kokua Hawaii Foundation, and has been awarded for his environmental work. Of getting the award, Eddie said it was like “being given an award for breathing. It’s what you have to do to stay alive.”

In 2006, Pearl Jam donated $100,000 to groups that focus on climate change and other environmental concerns as away to offset their own tour-related carbon emissions.

9. Adrian Grenier

Entourage star Adrian Grenier is one of those stars that has been working quietly at making a change in his own life for years, and has only recently been publicly applauded for it. He was honored earlier this year with the Blue Sky Award for Environmental Activism at the Vail Film Festival, and has a new show on Planet Green, ‘Alter Eco’. The series aims to illustrate how viewers can reduce their carbon footprint in style, and features topics like green home makeovers – it debuted last Monday, June 9th. Adrian has put such ideas into practice in his own home in Brooklyn, using recycled denim as insulation and installing solar panels on the roof.

Adrian believes in small steps making a big change, and thinks each person’s dedication really adds up: “If everyone just became a little more aware of his or her own personal impact on the earth, real change would ultimately result.”

8. Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver, also known as ‘The Naked Chef’, once famously suffocated live male chicks on television to call attention to unsavory practices within the poultry industry. He’s a supporter of free range meats, and fresher and healthier food in general – he’s been working hard at getting the UK to increase production and sales of organic food, and began a formal campaign to replace unhealthy food in Britain schools with nutritious alternatives. Jamie also plans on powering his new restaurant in Cornwall, England with wind turbines.

7. Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson

As drummer for hip hop band The Roots, Ahmir “?uestlove” (pronounced Questlove) Thompson has taken part in the group’s many charitable causes. The coolest and most unique one has to be when, at this year’s pre-Grammy Awards all-star jam session, the group gave away signed compost bins. That’s not even the best part – as part of their new program with schools called Feed Your Roots, the bins were given to schools that came up with the most creative composting campaigns on their campus. Billboard called The Roots one of America’s greenest bands, and they’ve proven it by working with animal rights organizations and taking part in various environmental activism around the country.

6. Graham Hill

For years, Graham Hill has been working to make sustainability mainstream. His main project, the ubiquitous green blog Treehugger.com, is the largest and most popular source of environmental news on the web, getting in excess of 100,000 visitors daily. Graham started Treehugger in 2004 and the site was acquired by Discovery Communications last year for a rumored $10 million. He likes to call himself a ‘modern urban hippie’, and wants to get the message across that you can be a hip urban city dweller and still be green.

Of Treehugger, Graham told TIME magazine, “If you want anything to happen, you have to make it easy. I’m hoping the takeaway on the site is this positive “Wow, I’ve seen this green that is here now and I can change my life in a green direction, whether it’s transportation, fashion, housing, etc.” A lot of environmentalism has been doom and gloom, negative, inspired by fear. We are trying to be positive: 80% of the stuff we feature are solutions and good news. I try to make it really inspiring so a lot of people come away hopeful.”

Graham is known for being a bit of a nomad, traveling the world while simultaneously managing 25 employees, editing posts, making corrections and dreaming up new ideas for Treehugger’s many features.

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