EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green: 10 We Missed Last Time

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.”

David de Rothschild, EarthFirst.com’s #1 Hottest Guy in Green

Just as we did for Hottest Girl in Green, Summer Rayne Oaks, we’re posting a tribute to David de Rothschild, possibly the best looking environmentalist ever. Plus, he’s got a British accent. Who could resist?

Though his looks may be mighty drool-worthy, David is far from being just another pretty face and we want to help him get out his message of how important it is to start doing all we can to save the planet. I also wanted an excuse to post gratuitous photos of the young British adventurer. I just. Can’t. Help. Myself.

As we told you in EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#5-#1), David’s pet project is Adventure Ecology, a gateway for kids to learn about global environmental problems. As part of Adventure Ecology, David treks the world to highlight problems like pollution, deforestation and melting glaciers.

David, an heir to one of the world’s most famous banking fortunes, would never be content to just sit back and enjoy his wealth. He told Outside Online, “Some people will always make the assumption ‘There’s a rich guy, a Rothschild; he paid a guide, the world’s fucked, and who cares?’ But I could sit there and do nothing or use my name and do something.”

David is author of The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change. He also wrote the foreword for True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet, due out this September.

David was interviewed by Sprig about his book, his project ‘Adventure Ecology’ and what motivates him to put so much energy into the environment. Treehugger also interviewed David, getting details on what his life is like right now, how he offsets all that travel and his perception of the environmental movement right now.

You can also catch his Today Show interview where he gives his ‘9 quick and easy tips to save the planet’, taken from his book, The Global Warming Survival Handbook.

My favorite thing that’s ever been said about David, however, was when one interviewer called him ‘the real life Steve Zissou’. How awesome is that?

EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green

Choosing all the guys for our Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green list was no easy feat, but looking at their pictures sure did make it pleasant. We broke it down last week in five daily installments (#25-#21, #20-#16, #15-#11, #10-#6, #5-#1), but for those of you who’d like to check out all the eye candy at once, here’s the full list. Enjoy!

1. David de Rothschild

David de Rothschild is a British environmental activist and adventurer, traveling the globe to call attention to the threat of climate change and sharing his mission with kids all over the world through his website, Adventure Ecology. David is the author of the book The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change.

2. Van Jones

Van Jones is an environmentalist and civil rights activist who has started several foundations to help spread the green message all over the world, including Green for All and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. His work has helped train youth for green collar jobs and promotes environmental justice. Just today, June 14th, Van has been honored for his dedication to the environment as recipient of the Global Green USA 2008 Millenium Award.

3. Leonardo DiCaprio

Though he’s mostly known for his parts in films like The Departed, Blood Diamond and Titanic, Leo DiCaprio is a dedicated environmentalist and is one of few celebrities who have real green cred. Not only is he green in his own life, he helmed the documentary The 11th Hour, which highlights the destruction that’s been done to the world and hopes for technology that may save it.

4. Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt has found a new calling in his work helping to rebuild New Orleans after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, and started the Make it Right Project, which is currently building eco-friendly homes in the city. He urges environmentally friendly design practices to be put in use throughout rebuilding efforts. His love of architecture has also led him to help design a green hotel in Dubai, and he has hosted Design:e2, a PBS program about ‘the economies of being environmentally conscious’.

5. Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom uses his fame to promote environmental causes like Global Green, Global Cool and the Climate Star campaign. His home features solar technology among other green aspects, and he works hard to offset all of the carbon emissions that come with being a rich and famous celebrity.

6. Graham Hill

Graham Hill founded the popular environmental site Treehugger, which provides valuable green content to over 100,000 visitors per day. Graham is a proponent of the cause to bring environmentalism to urban areas, showing people you don’t have to be a stereotypical hippie to be green. Graham works hard at making Treehugger a site where readers can find positive news, so they can leave feeling inspired about what we can do to help.

7. Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson

Ahmir Thompson, also known as Questlove, takes part in a variety of creative environmental projects as drummer for the hip hop band The Roots. At this years pre-Grammy Awards jam session, he and the group signed compost bins and gave them to schools that came up with the most creative composting campaigns on their campuses.

8. Jamie Oliver

‘The Naked Chef’, Jamie Oliver, is not just a television star and owner of several restaurants in England. He also works to call attention to food quality – where our food comes from, and how it’s produced. He’s a supporter of free range meats, organic produce and fresher, healthier food in general. He began a campaign to take unhealthy meals out of schools in Britain and replace them with nutritious alternatives.

9. Adrian Grenier

Adrian Grenier, star of the HBO show Entourage, has implemented eco-friendly practices into his life, including giving his own home a ‘green makeover’ with solar panels and recycled materials. He also hosts a new show on Planet Green called Alter Eco.

10. Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder, singer of Pearl Jam, has dedicated much of his free time to environmental activism. Eddie often participates in fundraisers and benefits for groups like the Kelly Slater Foundation and Jack Johnson’s Kokua Hawaii Foundation. He and the rest of Pearl Jam also donated $100,000 to groups that focus on climate change and other environmental concerns.

11. Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson is a famed Hawaiian surfer and musician. When he’s not hitting the waves or playing shows, Jack works to protect and preserve the natural beauty of his home state. Jack founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, which helps to educate kids in Hawaii about the environment. His tours are all eco-friendly and his record company uses recycled materials whenever possible.

12. Muhammad Saleem

Muhammad Saleem is a top green Digger, sourcing all of the best green content on the web and helping to spread it to people all over the globe through the social bookmarking site. Muhammad, a social media marketing guru, aims to help push environmental topics to the mainstream.

13. Chris Ingham Brooke

At just 20, Chris Ingham Brooke is the youngest member of our list. He founded Environmental Graffiti, the most popular green blog in the UK and the third most popular worldwide. Chris has also written for green gossip blog Ecorazzi. He speaks four languages, cooks and plays guitar.

14. Josh Dorfman

Josh Dorfman is the host of the Sirius Radio show The Lazy Environmentalist, and founder of the eco-friendly furniture company Vivavi and its green real estate directory offshoot, ModernGreenLiving.com. He’s also an author of two books and is currently working with the Sundance Channel to bring The Lazy Environmentalist to television.

15. Sir Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire which includes the airline, record company and cell phone company has pledged to invest $3 billion over a period of 10 years in clean fuels, renewable energy and environmental technologies.

16. Dan Shapley

Dan Shapley is an environmental journalist currently serving as acting editor at The Daily Green, a green news site published by Hearst Magazines. Dan’s personal connection to the outdoors as a child spurred his passion for writing about the environment.

17. Michael D’Estries

Michael D’Estries is the creator and co-founder of Ecorazzi.com, the best source of green celebrity gossip on the net, as well as Groovy Green. He’s also editor-in-chief at Ecotality Life. As part of his very cool job, Michael has interviewed stars on the red carpet and met with Al Gore, another member of our Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green list.

18. Shea Gunther

Shea Gunther, EarthFirst publisher and eco-entrepreneur extraordinaire, has a lot of projects under his belt. In addition to speeding down the road toward green media mogul status, Shea co-founded Renewable Choice Energy with our #19 hottest guy, Quayle Hodek. Shea is also a top Stumbler.

19. Quayle Hodek

Quayle Hodek is founder and CEO of Renewable Choice Energy, a company that provides wind-powered electricity to thousands of customers including Whole Foods and Honda. Quayle is passionate about making the world a cleaner and better place for all of us to live.

20. Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson is a longtime environmental activist, and currently lives in a sustainable community in Maui with his family. A vegan raw foodist and supporter of marijuana legalization, Woody runs his car on biodiesel and strives to create the smallest footprint he can despite being a celebrity.

21. Hank Green

Hank Green, founder of EcoGeek and proud owner of his very own nerd army, proves that geeks can definitely be hot. He’s one of the main writers for his popular site and has also grown his green media empire to include food, politics and bike commuting blogs. Hank is also a YouTube star along with his brother, author John Green.

22. Wen Bo

Wen Bo is China’s most high profile environmental activist – lonely work, considering that the country doesn’t provide the most welcoming climate for it. Bo is head of China operations for the California-based Pacific Environment Group. He also allocates grants to new environmental grassroots organizations in China.

23. Brian Howard

Brian C. Howard is Home and Eco Tips editor at popular eco blog The Daily Green. He’s former editor for E/The Environmental Magazine and has also written for National Geographic’s The Green Guide, among others. He co-authored the book Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth.

24. Gregory Schaefer

Tune in to Planet Green’s new show The G Word to catch a glimpse of hot chef Gregory Schaefer, who challenges other chefs to contests like ‘The Ultimate Eco Cook Off’. Gregory has also hosted the vlog Organic A to Z.

25. Al Gore

Al Gore is one of the most celebrated, high profile environmentalists of recent memory, calling attention to the plight of the planet since he served as Vice President. Al’s film An Inconvenient Truth spurred thousands of people across the globe into action. He also serves as chairman for the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Wondering where all the hot ladies are? Check out our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green!

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.

EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#15-#11)

We’re smack dab in the middle of our countdown of the Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green, and it just gets better and better. Today’s list features a surfer/musician, a social media maven, a renowned adventurer and two green entrepreneurs. If you’re just joining us and are wondering where all the ladies are, check out our Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green, which ran all last week. And now, let’s just get right to it: here are the hottest guys in green, #15 - 11!

15. Sir Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson hasn’t always been green – far from it. The famed adventurer, music mogul and Virgin Airlines founder has made quite a mark on the world over years of hard partying and record-breaking boat and balloon trips around the world. The thing is, at some point, he realized that the footprint he was going to leave wasn’t going to be all positive – and he wanted to clean it up before it’s too late. In the process, he’s helped the green movement tremendously. In 2006, he pledged to invest $3 billion over a period of 10 years – including all of the profits from Virgin’s train companies and airlines - in clean fuels, renewable energy and environmental technologies.

Sir Richard has been accused of being one of those guys that is mostly in it to make more money, but, as we’ve stated before here at EarthFirst, green greed isn’t a bad thing. The fact that Branson is willing to put that much into the environment – and that, you know, he kind of has a Sean Connery thing going on – makes us like him enough to clock him in at #15.

14. Josh Dorfman

If you’ve ever heard the national radio show The Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Satellite Radio, you know who Josh Dorfman is – or, perhaps you own some of the absolutely stunning eco-friendly furniture produced by his company, Vivavi. Josh is also the author of the book The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living and the upcoming The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget. That’s not all: this green business leader is also working with the Sundance Channel to bring The Lazy Environmentalist to television.

As if that weren’t enough, he’s also founder and CEO of ModernGreenLiving.com, Vivavi’s residential real estate directory for people seeking green homes, and is spokesperson for both Brita’s FilterforGood campaign and Green Works, Clorox’s line of natural cleaning products. We could go on and on about his astounding resume (yes, there’s more), but why don’t you just enjoy his picture for a while instead.

13. Chris Ingham Brooke

Chris Ingham Brooke is the 20-year-old founder of Environmental Graffiti, the most trafficked environmental blog in the UK and the third largest worldwide. Environmental Graffiti was founded just over a year ago, and already boasts over 400,000 readers monthly, from over 150 different countries. Environmental Graffiti is Chris’s first major project; prior to starting it, he wrote for the green gossip blog Ecorazzi. Chris speaks English, Italian, Russian and Spanish and lives in London. He loves to cook and play guitar.

12. Muhammad Saleem

At 22, Muhammad Saleem is already a well respected social media marketing expert, heading up that division for Advantage Consulting Services (ACS). He’s also a top green Digger, finding environmental stories and news and helping to increase their visibility on the net through the power of Digg’s socially driven system. In an interview with The Daily Green, Muhammad said “Not a lot of people are submitting stuff about the environment yet; it’s not quite mainstream. You have to position the story with an angle that will appeal to the site’s core.” Helping to get environmental news to the masses isn’t all Muhammad’s up to; he also writes for Copyblogger.com and ReadWriteWeb and works for Pronet Advertising.

11. Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson is mostly known for his relaxed, acoustic music influenced by his Hawaiian surfer lifestyle, but he’s also been honored for his contributions to the environment. Jack founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation to protect and preserve the islands of Hawaii. Just last Sunday, June 9th, Jack was given an ‘Environmental Hero’ award for educating school children about the environment. One of the most vocal campaigners for the environmental cause in the music industry, Jack does everything he can to make sure his tours are eco-friendly, from biodegradable food service trays and reusable water bottles to biodiesel powered tour buses and eco-friendly merchandise. His record company, Brushfire Records, uses recycled paper and recycled plastic trays for all of their CDs.

Of what caused him to become interested in environmentalism, Jack tells Outside Online, “I was a nature boy growing up,” he explains. “Being out in the ocean all the time, hiking, camping, taking canoe trips with my dad—that’s where it all comes from.”

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.

EarthFirst.com’s Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green (#25-21)

Last week, we brought you the Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green, and this week we’re giving you the other half of the Green Hotness Coin. You didn’t think I’d let the guys here at EarthFirst forget you ladies (and lad loving lads), did you? This is no typical roster of shirtless meatheads who purely serve as eye candy. We’ve chosen the hottest 25 guys active in environmentalism including activists, business professionals, media moguls, musicians, actors and chefs. So get yourself a hat, and get ready to hold the eff onto it. 25 hot green guys are comin’ at you this week, five at a time. [Read more]