EarthFirst.com’s 25 Hottest Girls In Green: 10 We Missed The First Time

Everybody makes mistakes. George Michael kissed Maybe on Arrested Development. Rob Lowe left The West Wing. The framers of the Constitution gave Florida the right to vote. And Earthfirst.com put together a list of the 25 hottest women in green. Of course, we proudly stand by the retina-damaging hotness (and the eco-cred!) of our original 25, but want to make sure to give credit where credit is due: there are a lot of hotties that love the earth out there, and here are ten more.

10. Sheryl Crow

Yeah, not bad for a 46-year-old cancer survivor, huh? Sheryl is an environmental whirlwind, even after her romance with Lance Armstrong gave rise to rumors that cancer was an STD; she’s toured with Laurie David to drum up grassroots support on college campuses, continually addresses climate change at her concert dates, and is instrumental in Reverb, an organization committed to greening musicians and their fans.

9. Colleen Smith

We’re serious: after finding this girl, we had to take a few minutes to wait for our brain to begin putting words in order in sentences again. Of course, the six foot six inch tall Colleen is far more than just one of the world’s best volleyball players–she’s been on the AVP tour since 2002–she also regularly stumps for the planet on her blog, Sixfootsix, and has launched Colleen’s Green Team, a group committed to stopping global warming because, well, she’s a pro beach volleyball player, and if the oceans rise…no more beach volleyball. Wanna join (Emphatic yes–Ben)? FInd one way to change your life for the planet, and go here.

8. Amber Valetta

We know: another starlet. But hear us out, because Amber Valetta is the real deal–we didn’t know who the hell she was until we started searching based on green cred, and we’ve actually seen some of her movies. You can also consider us in mourning of her 1990s relationship with Leonardo Decaprio, which would have doubtlessly resulted in eco-freindly superchildren that were so attractive they made your head hurt. Of course, we’re not in the habit of giving out spots on this list for who your ex is, so here goes: Amber isn’t just effective as a spokeswoman in the environmental movement, where she volunteers her time to Oceana speaking about the multitude of dangers (mercury, overfishing, plastic, anything else we do) humanity imposes on the world’s oceans, she’s also lured Ted Danson (who’s on Oceana’s board) into the public light more frequently, most recently using their fame to support Wild Oats market’s commitment to sustainability and proper labeling on their seafood.

7. KT Tunstall

The Scottish singer-songwriter has long made her feelings on the environment well-known, playing Live Earth and personally ensuring that her tours are eco-friendly. She’s also planning a green renovation of her apartment with Global Cool, who will install solar panels and an energy-saving boiler in order to allow KT to live off of the grid entirely.

6. Norah Jones

Norah, the Bengali-American voice from above, has taken a simple, direct step that we wish other musicians would as well: she’s signed on with Reverb, a nonprofit org founded by Adam Gardner of Guster that promotes eco-friendly touring in all facets: venues, transportation, catering, energy efficiency: you name it.

5. Jill Danyelle

Jill, in addition to being Inhabitat’s fashion editor, may have done the coolest thing we’ve ever seen: fiftyRX3, a project to ensure that she was wearing at least 50% sustainable clothing for an entire year. She’s doing more than her part to make sure that style and sustainability intersect, and looking darn good doing it.

4. Rebecca Carter

Rebecca Carter should probably be on this list twice: she’s a co-founder of Ecorazzi, which keeps us dealing in enough green gossip that this list was far easier to come up with than you would imagine. This proud Florida Gator alum currently lives in Miami, where in addition to Ecorazzi, she runs Greener Miami all by her lonesome. Or, well, did, until Oliver was born–her first child has placed her on maternity leave, even while we’re placing her on the ‘hottest in green’ list.

3. Sarah Meredith Roe

Sarah is a Jetson Green contributor, and all-around environmental star: she’s renovating a home form the 1950s in New Hampshire, and is using her design background to explore sustainable options–including LEED, and the use of prefabricated components. Sarah is also an artist that’s actively seeking to make use of eco-friendly art supplies, a conservationist who wants to protect 10,000 acres in her lifetime, and will be teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy in the fall.

2. Noelle d’Estries

Let’s go ahead and get this out there: you should probably feel a deep, jealous sort of hate for Noelle. Not only is she smart (Rochester Institute of Technology), not only is she versatile (we’ve had other green authors on this list, but we don’t think any of them ever wrote about the environment AND cancer AND a bar scene), and not only is she athletic (4 years on RIT’s basketball team): she looks like that. We’ll give you a moment to compose yourselves. You can see her writing, among many, many other places, on Green Options and Planetsave, where she’s an editor, and her own site, Worst Cook Ever.

1. Majora Carter

Majora is the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization devoted to replacing decaying infrastructure in the Bronx with green space and environmentally friendly community areas, including the demolition of the impassible Sheridan Expressway for riverfront housing. Majora was also selected to carry the Olympic torch in San Francisco this year, when she drew the ire of the Chinese security team by pulling a Tibetan flag out of her sleeve once the torch was in her possession.

EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Girls In Green

We had a great time bringing you the Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green last week. We didn’t want to overwhelm our readers with their hotness all at once so we broke it into five, five girl installations. Now that you’ve had a chance to acclimatize your system (25-21, 16-20, 11-15, 6-10, 1-5) to so much green hotness, we decided to throw them all together on one place for your viewing and social bookmarking pleasure. Enjoy!

(Publisher’s Note: We’ve got the 25 Hottest Guys in Green starting on Monday)

#1. Summer Rayne Oakes

As you might gather, Summer’s a model. She’s also a National Wildlife Federation fellow, a Treehugger contributor, host/contributor/expert/board member for the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, Udall scholar, and holds an entomology degree from Cornell.

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EarthFirst.com Has Like, A Tractor Beam Of Hotness: The Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green (#1-5)

EarthFirst.com has been tracking the hottest girls in the environmental movement all week, and, with the exception of taking a moment to make fun of Paris Hilton for letting millions of people see her get nailed in night vision (That’s green! It was research, we swear!) we’ve hopefully introduced you to some beautiful women who are going to save the planet. Today is no different, but today is about the top five–the super-gorgeous, alpha-environmentalists that would be capable of stopping global warming by themselves, if they never got in a two-piece. The Top Five Hottest Girls in Green:

#5. Olivia Zaleski

Olivia Zaleski is a freelance writer in New York, and has made the most of the opportunities running rampant in both that city and the green movement right now– she’s the environmental living expert for Huffington Post and the editor for their new Green section, and managing editor of Eco-Chick, two websites that aren’t in any danger of running out of business anytime soon. She’s also seen her work appear in Treehugger, and The Daily Green, and like many of our honorees, has a background in design, leaving her even better-suited to fine-tune a green lifestyle and look great doing it. She’s been making a green splash in the mainstream media with her recent video work for Good Morning America.

#4. Hayden Panettierre

Before justifying the inclusion of Hayden, who is no longer jailbait, on this list, EarthFirst.com would like to give you a chance to guess what her cause is by letting you know that there’s a warrant for her arrest in Japan. What can make the land of the rising sun so upset at such a pretty girl? Whales, kind sir, as Hayden has taken on the role of spokeswoman for “Save The Whales Again,” an organization aiming to consolidate and expand upon the gains in conservation made since the 1970s. She’s more than just a pretty face, appearing in press conferences with Sen. John Kerry, facing crowds in Q&As for over an hour, and even selling her own clothes for a fundraiser.

#3. Rachel McAdams

The Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers star permanently endeared herself to environmental activists last year when she and two friends launched Green is Sexy, a green blog that’s utterly without pretension, or even the acknowledgment that one of the writers is best known for being Owen Wilson’s love interest. From the site:

Rachel’s love for the planet began at a young age - summers spent at the cottage, swimming in the Great Canadian Lakes , riding her banana seat bike around the neighborhood. Winters consisted of tobogganing through the treacherous woods and building dangerous snow forts. Today, her bike is still her vehicle of choice and she isn’t above the occasional snow fort. But she’s trying to lighten her footprint on the earth - supporting tree planting organizations, switching her house to green power and developing an OCD for unplugging anything with a plug. She dreams of one day living in a treehouse and being able to grow her own food.

Who’s in love?

#2. Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia lived in a 180-foot tall, 600-year old redwood tree (Luna) for over two years, from December 10th, 1997, to December 18th, 1999, in order to prevent it from being cut down by the Pacific Lumber Company. If that wasn’t crazy enough, she undertook her act of civil disobedience alone–while organizations like Earth First (no connection to us) later came to her aid, she saw a need and a change to act, and rushed into the gap. Eventually, Pacific reached a settlement with her, and a three-acre buffer zone around Luna was created where no logging would take place.

#1. Summer Rayne Oakes

As you might gather, Summer’s a model. She’s also a National Wildlife Federation fellow, a Treehugger contributor, host/contributor/expert/board member for the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, and still more environmental cred that can’t be easily listed here, among it an entomology degree from Cornell. That’s right–the girl in the picture above, in college, chose to study bugs. She’s also running circles around the rest of us trying to save the planet, and looking fabulous doing it, so what the hell are you doing in front of your computer?

EarthFirst.com Feels So Pretty: The 25 Hottest Girls In Green (#6-10)

The internet, according to Avenue Q, was made for porn, and it may be host to more…enterpenurial…young women than any other medium, ever. That hasn’t stopped EarthFirst.com from sifting through the masses to find not only the 25 hottest, but the 25 hottest that are carrying some serious eco-cred. Today, we proudly present 10-6 of the 25 Hottest Girls In Green:

10. Heather Stephenson

Heather is the co-founder of Ideal Bite, an organization committed to massive change on an incremental scale: their most prominent project is a series of tips that tell you how to green your life in baby steps. Prior to working there, Heather was also a founding member of Urban Sage, a New York rooftop garden deign and installation firm, giving her a unique background in the greening of urban areas.

9. Starre Vartan

Starre Vartan is a Huffington Post blogger, and founder of Eco Chick, which has been supplying our list with scads of talented, classy, environmentally savvy women. She’s an Ozzie by birth, and has had a hand in more green media than we can keep track of: she’s associate produced with the Discovery Channel, writes regularly at E and The Daily Green, and been published in various print media worldwide.

8. Jill Fehrenbacher

A freelance designer and green design consultant in New York, Jill is also the founder of Inhabitat, a blog dedicated to green design in all facets of life. When she’s not exploring the intersection of green and pretty, Jill is a graduate student at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

7. Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie and Jill are the only two siblings on this list, and they’ve earned it: in addition to Jill’s skill as a designer, Katie edits Earth2Tech and writes for GigaOM; she’s also gotten her freelance work published in Red Herring, Endgadget, and ReadyMade Magazine.

6. Angelina Jolie

One of the rare celebrities with the enviro-cred to crack out list of 25, Angelina gets the nod because of her dedication to the developing world. While tinpot dictators are keen of saying things like “environmentalism is a luxury for the rich countries,” she makes it her work to ensure that the developing world is able to save the planet as well. Most recently she funded–by herself, because she’s a movie star–a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary at a cost of over 5 million dollars.

EarthFirst.com is looking (staring?) at the hottest environmentally friendly women all week–be sure to come back tomorrow for #5-1 and follow along all week with the Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green! Don’t worry Ladies, we have the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green coming up next week.

EarthFirst.com’s Getting Hotter, And It’s Not Climate Change: The 25 Hottest Girls In Green (#11-15)

The internet is full of lists of hot women, and this one is no different–except that to get on it, these women have, in addition to bringing the hotness with them, have displayed environmental cred in any number of fields; some are activists, some are fundraisers, some are inventors, but every one of them does more than just drive a hybrid. Without further adieu, 11-15 of the 25 Hottest Girls In Green:

15. Emily Pilloton

Emily is the managing director of Inhabitat and the founder of Project H Design, a firm specializing in “initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness.” Project H is a nonprofit entity, and her designs there focus on a sustainable sensibility that’s both cutting-edge and classy.

14. Paris Hilton

Ah, Paris. This picture probably represents the “greenest” the hotel heiress has ever been, despite the fact that she’s fond of telling the press about her ever-more-ludicrous hybrid car ideas. First it was the 2007 GMC Yukon Hybrid, which may count, except it still only gets 21 mpg, and then there was her insistence that Hummer design her a hybrid–even more humorous when taken with the news that GM is considering dumping the brand. All the cool kids are wearing green these days, and I suppose she’s been feeling left out, but eco-fail, and everybody ranked 25-13 should move up a spot.

13. Lauren Bush

I know, right? The last name says that young Lauren here should be out issuing ultimatums to her friends and then getting into fights with people that look different than her, all before coming home to write several thousand letters to the editor about drilling in ANWR. Unlike her more famous uncle however, this designer has taken to the environment in a big way; she’s a vegetarian, and her design and modeling careers have allowed her to launch Project FEED, which has generated millions of dollars for the UN’s World Food Program through sales of accessories.

12. Kylie Minogue

Kylie has been agitating for environmental in a variety of ways since her career took off in the 1980s, advocating for penguins in Australia, playing at LIve Earth II, creating a completely energy-independent home with renewable resources, and speaking out in public. All of that, the stress of a show business career, and she still looks that good into her 40s? Oh my.

11. Darryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah is another celeb that backs up what happens in front of the cameras with real eco-friendly action: she’s served as a judge for Treehugger’s Convenient Truths contest, runs her own blog on sustainable solutions, and has won multiple awards for agitating for higher water quality and cleaner fuels. In 2006, she, Julia Butterfly Hill, and Joan Baez were arrested along with several other demonstrators who were attempting to stop the bulldozing og the nation’s largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles, and actually spent some time in jail– proof positive that she’s sticking with her convictions.

EarthFirst.com is looking (staring?) at the hottest environmentally friendly women all week–be sure to come back tomorrow for #10-6 and follow along all week as we work like dogs to determine the Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green! Don’t worry Ladies, we have the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green coming up next week.