EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#5-#1)

Today our countdown of the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green comes to a close with #5-#1. These men have traveled the world (two have been to Antarctica), helped rebuild weather-damaged cities with eco-friendly homes, fought pirates, been chased by mobs of screaming women, achieved great heights in environmental activism and called the attention of the plight of our planet to millions. Without further ado, here are the top five hottest guys out there working hard for the environment.

5. Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom isn’t just another pretty elf (or pirate). He uses his celebrity to promote environmental causes like Global Cool, Global Green and the Climate Star campaign. He’s also building a home using solar technology, and offsets his carbon emissions from all that traveling he does by donating money toward the planting of trees.

Orlando told Elle magazine, “‘I’m really not an expert on environmental matters,” Bloom says. “But I’m very passionate about the environment. And the more I learn about it, the more I realize that there are little things that everyone can do.”

4. Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt may fly around in a private jet with Angelina Jolie and their brood more often than we’d like, but his work in environmental activism and programs helps the good outshine the bad. In 2006, Brad worked with Global Green USA on a sustainable design competition in New Orleans, a city he fell in love with after working on a film there. Much of his environmental work centers around the city, which he says can benefit greatly from putting environmentally friendly design in place as the city is rebuilt following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Of course, Brad’s best known environmental work is the Make it Right Project, which is building eco-friendly homes in New Orleans.

Brad has also hosted a series about “the economies of being environmentally concious”, Design: e2, on PBS. He’ll also be involved in the design of a green hotel in Dubai.

3. Leonardo DiCaprio

As celebrity environmentalists go, Leonardo DiCaprio is undoubtedly the real deal. He flies commercial, something most other celebs with his level of fame and fortune would never even consider. He drives a hybrid car, has a green home with as many eco-friendly features as he could fit in and vocally speaks out for change in the face of global warming, which he calls “the number one environmental challenge.”

Leonardo’s documentary, The 11th Hour, illustrates the dangers facing the planet as well as hope for new technology and ways of thinking that just might save it. He says of the film and what he aims for people to take away from it, “It’s not about imposing a certain belief system or a way of life on people in any economic background. It’s about just being aware of this issue. That’s the most important thing, and really trying to say next time I vote, next time I buy something, I’m just going to be aware of what’s really going on.”

2. Van Jones

Van Jones is quickly becoming one of today’s most genuine, hard working, recognized environmental activists. He has served on the boards at the Social Ventures Network, National Apollo Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers and Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization. Van’s own Ella Baker Center for Human Rights initiated a ‘Green Job Corps’ program in Oakland, California training youth for green collar jobs. Van also founded ‘Green for All’, a group that promotes green jobs policies and environmental justice.

In speaking to the public about the environment, Van is known for taking a different tact than that of many other environmentalists – one that ties in with his humanitarian work. As he told Good Magazine in April, what environmentalists fail to realize is that “for people who live in personal crisis, telling them about a planetary crisis is just demoralizing. You need to talk to these people about opportunity.”

Van will be one of two recipients of the Global Green USA 2008 Millennium Award tomorrow, June 14th, in honor of his environmental work.

1. David de Rothschild

David de Rothschild has been dubbed a ‘British adventurer’, and has certainly had an amazing time traveling the world in his 29 years. In fact, he’s the youngest Brit to reach both poles. While others might just seek a thrill, however, David sees opportunity for doing something great – and that’s exactly what he’s up to right now. He founded Adventure Ecology, an organization that shares his expeditions with kids on the web to promote environmental awareness and activism.

This December, David will begin a new Adventure Ecology mission – one that will take him on a four-month, 8,000 mile voyage from San Francisco to Australia in a 60 foot sailboat made of recycled plastic bottles. The purpose of the trip is to call attention to pollution in the ocean, from trash to oil spills, and David hopes it will spur people into demanding a change in the way our oceans are treated.

We couldn’t help but put David de Rothschild at #1 on this list, given his accomplishments and – well – the obvious (just look at that picture!). David doesn’t want the spotlight to be too much on his looks or who he’s dating, though – he’s afraid it will undermine his work. So, go read about Adventure Ecology and pass it on to some kids you know, to help make up for us calling attention to how crazy hot he is.

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