EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#20-16)

Just in case you haven’t figured out by now that we’re no ordinary eco blog, EarthFirst.com is bringing you the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (check out our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green if you missed it last week!). We’re counting down the most drool-worthy guys active in environmentalism, from actors to green business CEOs. Stick with us throughout the week to see the whole list. Here are the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green, #20-16.

20. Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson may be best known for roles like those of Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt and Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, but in real life he’s as far from either of those characters as can be. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t gotten into some trouble – back in 1996, Woody was arrested for planting hemp seeds in Kentucky, and again for scaling the Golden Gate bridge in a logging protest. These days, though he’s still active in environmental activism, Woody’s more content to hang out in his home in a sustainable community in Maui with his wife and three daughters. Woody is a vocal supporter of the vegan raw food lifestyle, runs his car on biodiesel, and still wants hemp and marijuana to be legalized. He and wife Laura Louie started the website, “Voice Yourself”, as a way to spread the word about living a sustainable lifestyle.

Here’s a great quote to sum it all up, from “Voice Yourself”: “Since I was a kid I felt this need to play a role in helping Mother Earth. At the age of 12, I wrote a 50-page report (that wasn’t supposed to be more than 5 pages) on threatened wildlife and realized clearly that my Mother was being continually and forcibly raped by giant corporations intent on profit.”

19. Quayle Hodek

Quayle Hodek is the founder and CEO of Renewable Choice Energy, a Boulder, Colorado-based company that provides electricity produced by wind turbines. It counts Fortune 500 company Whole Foods among its customers, which has the same environmental impact as taking more than 60,000 cars off the road. Other clients include Warner, Johnson & Johnson and Honda.

At just 29, Quayle has already achieved a lot. Being such a young CEO has been a fun and interesting challenge for him, and Quayle has the energy and dedication to achieve even bigger things in the future. Of getting the inspiration to start Renewable Choice Energy after surviving the dotcom bubble of the ‘90s, Quayle says, “Life is too short to do something that is not truly inspiring and truly meaningful.”

18. Shea Gunther

EarthFirst.com’s very own Shea Gunther is an eco-entrepreneur and top StumbleUpon user who got started with a dotcom at the tender age of 20. Zoom Culture, his first project, has been called ‘YouTube too early’ and crashed and burned through $16M when the bubble burst. That only made Shea more determined to succeed, and in the years to follow he has started seven businesses. Shea, along with our #19 Quayle Hodek, founded Renewable Choice Energy and has also written for a variety of sites including Ecotality Life, EcoGeek, snarfd, and Geeks Are Sexy.

Shea loves pirate jokes, ninjas and the word ‘rhubarb’. He has a crush on most of the girls on our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green list, and isn’t afraid to flex his publishing power to get himself on lists of Hot Green People. Shea lives in Portland, Maine and currently works out of a powered, wifi enabled tipi.

17. Michael D’Estries

Creator and co-founder of Ecorazzi.com and GroovyGreen and editor-in-chief at Ecotality Life, Michael D’Estries discovered his love for sustainability after moving to the town of Ithaca, New York in 2004. He was inspired by the passion for the environment displayed in Ithaca, but frustrated by the lack of green info available online. Since then, he’s been having a great time living the life and helping to spread the word to others. Ecorazzi catches stars in good (and bad) acts of ‘green’ – whether highlighting the latest celeb to buy a hybrid vehicle or tsk-tsking others for wasting energy. It’s one of the most fun green blogs out there, and in just three years it’s become so popular it gets over 10,000 hits a day and has been featured in a vast array of media publications, television shows and radio.

When he’s not meeting with Al Gore and interviewing stars on the red carpet, Michael likes to tend his vegetable garden, watch movies and daydream about owning a sustainable home.

16. Dan Shapley

Photo by Gloria Dawson

Dan Shapley has been an environmental journalist for 9 years, and currently spends most of his time as acting editor at The Daily Green, a green news site published by the Digital Media unit of Hearst Magazines. Dan formerly wrote for New York’s oldest newspaper, The Poughkeepsie Journal, and was environmental editor, new media editor and reporter for Gannett. Dan’s investigative reporting on the Hudson River and other environmental topics was part of what inspired The Daily Green’s founder Deborah Jones Barrow to start the site, which is known as a “comprehensive, one-stop eco-resource for environmental news, tips and information”.

Dan grew up in Salt Point, New York and spent his childhood roaming the woods and creek near his parents’ home, shaping his interest in nature and the environment. Dan feels that having a personal connection to the outdoors is important for all of us to feel more inspired in protecting the environment.

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