Naturally, when we made our Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green list, we had to make some hard choices, and skipped over some pretty hot green guys accidentally in the research process. Since then we’ve dug up all kinds of fine environmentalists, writers, green business owners, television stars and green media moguls. Here are the top 10 hottest green guys we missed last time.
1. Jacob Gordon
Jacob Gordon is a fixture at Treehugger.com, where he writes, edits the Green Your Life series and produces Treehugger Radio. Jacob also writes for Greenopia.com, and has founded a chapter of ‘Green Drinks’ in Nashville TN, where he lives with his fiancé and two dogs.
Check out this video where Jacob interviews our Hottest Girl in Green, Summer Rayne Oakes, about eco-friendly fashion.
2. Toshio Meronek
Toshio oversees popular green tips site Ideal Bite’s team of research and writing interns. Ideal Bite is a site that helps connect people with green companies through ‘bite size’ green tips that ease readers into the green movement, step by step. Toshio previously worked for several non-profits based in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and was also editor for a magazine about water conservation.
3. Tim Cigelske
Tim Cigelske is the man behind Teecycle.org, an awesome website that sells vintage t-shirts. On Teecycle you’ll find photographs of Tim, his wife Jess and various friends wearing the shirts they dig up, which sell for $10 including shipping. $1 of each sale goes to the River Revitalization Foundation. My favorite recent one is “I Have Candy”, perfect for clearing a playground for your own use due to suspicious parents dragging their kids out of your vicinity.
4. Jordan Heller
Jordan Heller is EarthFirst.com’s founder and CEO, pictured here with his three daughters. Jordan has been concerned about the environment his whole life, and has been dubbed ‘the angry green man’ by his friends for continually pointing out how they could be greener. That makes him the perfect guy to head up this snarky, sarcastic green blog and run the rest of the EarthFirst Solutions, Inc. empire. Jordan also owns another green business called EcoSchoolStore.com, which sells prepackaged environmentally friendly school supplies.
5. Craig Zamary
Craig Zamary launched GreenEnergyTV.com in 2007, an online television channel devoted to educating viewers about environmental issues. Green Energy TV has viewers from 81 countries around the world watching, uploading and sharing green videos and aims to change the way green news is covered. Craig, pictured far right, recently met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to talk about Green Energy TV’s mission and his passion for green issues.
6. Rob Kalin
Rob Kalin is the unlikely CEO of Etsy.com, the internet’s best source of hip handmade items from clothing and jewelry to bizarre assemblage art and macabre hair accessories. 27-year-old Rob, a former classics major in college and ex-carpenter, started Etsy in 2005 and it has since taken off to host tens of thousands of sellers and hundreds of thousands of buyers.
Etsy is a great place to find vintage and handmade items instead of buying new – it’s like the biggest flea market ever full of the coolest stuff you can imagine.
7. Preston Koerner
Preston is the founder, chief editor and sole owner of JetsonGreen.com, a web magazine featuring news and trends on green building, good design, sustainable development and clean technology. Preston started Jetson Green in 2006 and it’s since become one of the leading online sources of info about green architecture. As the world focuses more and more on sustainability in the coming years, Jetson Green will undoubtedly be at the forefront discussing all of the great innovations in green technology that are surely to come.
8. Jason Graham-Nye
Jason is co-founder of ‘gDiapers’, a flushable and compostable alternative to conventional disposable diapers that help reduce the amount of waste in landfills worldwide. In fact, gDiapers have prevented a whopping 2.5 million disposable diapers from being thrown away thus far. Jason’s other passions aside from green business include his family, Rugby, cricket, golf and blogging.
9. Darren Moore
Darren Moore is known as the ‘Eco MacGyver’ of Planet Green’s show Alter Eco. Darren acts as eco design/green builder on this green home makeover show which also stars Adrian Grenier, #9 on our Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green list. Darren also runs his own eco-friendly remodeling company, ‘Ecovations’. Darren has lived in more than 20 countries, loves to cook, and is also a masseur in his spare time.
10. Chip Giller
Chip Giller is president and founder of Grist.org, one of our favorite sources of eco-news as the good people there deliver it all with a trademark sarcastic twist. Grist started as a tiny newsletter and has grown to an influential site with over 750,000 readers. Chip was named one of TIME Magazine’s 45 Heroes of the Environment.
Chip told TIME, “The strategy is to use irreverence and humor as a way to get through the jadedness that people have around these issues. We’re a beacon in the smog.”
