Who’s Who in Green: Sean Daily

Sean Daily is the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Green Living Ideas, a website that provides ideas, tips and info to help people improve the sustainability of every aspect of their lives, from consumption of energy at home to waste recycling. If you’ve ever had a question about how to ‘green up’ just about anything in your life, chances are, Green Living Ideas has the answer – it’s the most comprehensive source of green living tips on the web.

Sean is also host of the popular Green Talk Radio podcast, which is a play-on-demand audiocast that brings all of Green Living Ideas’ tips to the airwaves. Listeners tuning into Greek Talk Radio will get a plethora of green tips through interviews with experts, authors and owners of green businesses around the world. Topics on Green Talk Radio run the gamut from making smart purchasing decisions to the latest green technology.

Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Sean Daily is an internationally recognized expert on technology publishing and enterprise information technologies. Before he founded Green Living Ideas, Sean founded and served as CEO at RealTimePublishers.com, which is a leading web-based publisher of books, community portals, videos and other media. That experience undoubtedly gave him a lot of practical knowledge and inspiration for Green Living Ideas, which is brimming with information written by a team of ‘green gurus’.

Wondering how to battle household pests in an environmentally friendly way? Green Living Ideas has the scoop. Looking for eco-friendly gift ideas? Check. Seeking information about sustainable seafood, or tips for removing toxins from the air in your home? Check and double check. Recent articles illuminate the ways you can choose investment stocks according to the companies’ social concerns, how to find a greener plumber, an overview of eco eyewear and how to achieve healthy, organic soil to grow veggies in. We told you it’s comprehensive!

Through providing the public with such a huge volume of incredibly useful green info, Sean has put the power of living sustainably into the hands of anyone who can access the internet. That’s big – and it’s testament to how much this podcaster, entrepreneur, writer and visionary can achieve in the years to come.

Sean Daily’s Green Score: 22,332

Who’s Who in Green: Hank Green

Hank Green is the founder and editor of EcoGeek.org, one of the most popular and well-respected sources of green technology news on the net.  Hank started EcoGeek in graduate school as part of an assignment, and it has evolved to become a highly trafficked blog serving up 10 posts daily on topics like electric cars, solar panels, wind tubines, ethanol and every type of eco-gadget known to man.

EcoGeek is driven by the belief that “technology can be a force for evil, or for awesome”.  That is, technology can help us achieve a balance that allows us to live convenient modern lives, and still be good to the earth. This ‘symbiosis between nature and technology’ defines the content on EcoGeek, which is written by Hank along with a great team of writers who keep up the steady stream of fresh green tech news and features.

The EcoGeek blog network also includes Carectomy, Envirovore and EnviroWonk, all dealing with environment-related topics.  EnviroWonk focuses on the green side of politics, Envirovore hashes out the environmental impact of food and Carectomy is all about ‘removing cars from people’.  Each blog provides unique, interesting, well-written content in niches that were previously lacking any real presence.

Aside from his work on EcoGeek, Hank has written for Treehugger as well as Mental_Floss.  He’s also a YouTube star, appearing in a series of daily video blogs called ‘Brotherhood 2.0’, created during 2007 when Hank and his brother, young adult novelist John Green, decided to communicate through video instead of text for a year.  The vlog has been featured on BBC radio and the Wall Street Journal, and has a fan base of 20,000 people, affectionately known as Nerdfighters.  Hank’s music can be heard on YouTube as well, like the awesome ‘Baby I Sold Your Dog on Ebay’ and ‘Accio Death Hallows’.  Hank also appears regularly on Planet Green’s nightly news show ‘The G Word’, and has been interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered and Air America’s The Young Turks.

Some of Hank’s best environmental writing was done when he was writing a weekly column for a daily Boulder, Colorado newspaper. As Hank himself describes it, the column was about ‘being young, poor, and green’, and covers everything from fair trade coffee to scabies.

Hank’s efforts with EcoGeek have already caught the eye of TIME Magazine, who called the blog “porn for hardcore science, tech and enviro freaks” and noted funny post titles like “Sexy Photos of a Solar Furnace in Uzbekistan”.  Hank Green does indeed help make the environmental movement on the web more fun, and that’s what we love about him.  Nerdfighters FTW!

Hank Green’s Green Score: 15,984

Who’s Who in Green: Olivia Zaleski

Olivia Zaleski is a freelance writer and green living expert who writes for numerous green blogs and websites, and frequently shares her tips with national radio host Dr. Pat and on ABC’s Good Morning America.  Olivia was born and raised in the urban jungle of NYC, and was very much a city girl until she was 16, when she was sent to an organic farm in Vermont.  There, she spent a lot of time outdoors, even spending three days in the woods by herself – with nothing more than a tarp, sleeping bag, four bagels and a hunk of cheese.

She went on to study art history at Dartmouth College, and spent two summers at the Rhode Island School of Design.  She briefly worked in fashion merchandising for a large corporation, and during that time was exposed to the environmental issues that came to light during the company’s production process.  It sparked her passion for responsible design, and she began learning and writing about various environmental problems and solutions.

Olivia, who again lives in NYC, is managing editor of Eco-Chick.com and also writes for Treehugger, The Daily Green and The Huffington Post, where her syndicated column ‘Enviro-Mental: Going Green Without Going Crazy‘ repeatedly breaks over 80,000 page views.  Olivia’s signature writing style is sharp and witty, with entertaining topics like ‘Top 10 Most Useless Items of Crapola’.

Click the image above to watch a video clip of one of Olivia’s Good Morning America appearances at The Huffington Post.

Olivia also played an integral role in the launch of Huffington Post Green, a new addition to the hugely popular online magazine The Huffington Post, which consistently ranks as the #1 blog on Technorati and gets mind-boggling numbers of visitors each day. The Huffington Post Green is entirely dedicated to environmental stories, from ‘Will Anyone Seriously Question T. Boone Pickets at the Big Tent?’ to ‘The Art of Dumpster Diving’.

Olivia is dedicated to making green mainstream, and her writing draws attention to everything from the latest line of sustainable clothing to her tips for greening up a Christmas tree.  We’re looking forward to seeing more of Olivia’s green ventures in the future!

Olivia Zaleski’s Green Score: 12,378

Who’s Who in Green: Starre Vartan

It hasn’t been long since the perception held that eco-friendly fashion and beauty were the realm of the hemp-wearing, au naturel granola types. But Starre Vartan, an environmental writer and editor, knew that it was more than that – that it could, in fact, be stylish, glamorous and beautiful, and appeal to all sorts of different women. So, in 2005, she founded Eco-Chick.com with the idea that women who cared about the planet deserved their very own place on the web.

Eco Chick has helped make doing right by the planet fun, sexy and feminine, featuring posts like ‘Eco Lingerie for Every Bella’, ‘Reduce PMS Bloating Naturally with Herbs’, ‘Help Fight Chocolate Extinction’ and ‘The Best Non-Milk Cappuccino Ever!’. Diverse topics from eco-friendly high chairs to the pros and cons of nuclear power are covered, always with Eco Chick’s signature style.

Watch Starre demonstrate some classic Eco Chick go-green tips on Fox News below:

Starre was born in Sydney, Australia and split her time between her home country down under and the hamlet of Garrison, New York, exposing her both to the sand and sea of Australia and the deep forests and mountains of the Northeast. These beautiful natural environments are part of what inspired her to achieve a BS in geology, BA in English and a minor in Biology at Syracuse University. She’s currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University.

Starre’s work can currently be found on The Huffington Post, Audubon Magazine (where she writes the Green Guru column) and The Daily Green. She’s the managing editor for Greenopia and the style editor for Plenty Magazine. She has also written for E/The Environmental Magazine, The Fairfield County Weekly, Alternet.org, and Worldchanging New York. Starre was also an associate producer for the Discovery Channel’s miniseries Final Hour.

Starre’s latest venture is her recently released book, ‘The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green’. The book delves into ways young women can live sustainably and still be chic and cool, with sections on fashion and personal care, the home, eco-friendly travel and more. Upbeat and lighthearted, The Eco Chick Guide to Life has hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart, from vintage clothes shopping to biodegradable hair products.

Starre Vartan’s Green Score: 13,907

Who’s Who in Green: Preston Koerner

Where do the savvy go when looking for the latest news about green architecture? Jetson Green, naturally, where you can find everything from the latest eco-friendly condo project in Chicago to inspirational green home remodels. Jetson Green is a veritable treasure trove of green architecture eye candy, featuring drool-worthy photos of sustainable homes, green roofs, solar powered communities, modern earth-friendly home furnishings and much more.

Meet Preston Koerner, the man behind Jetson Green (and one of our Hot Guys in Green). He first became enamored with green building when living in Japan in the ‘90s, where the culture was really focused on environmentalism. Years later, Preston was still inspired by their conservationist attitude. In 2005, he was seeking an MBA and wrote a plan for a mid-scale, modern, trendy, green hotel for young professionals as part of a business plan class. To him, the green elements infused within the design and plans were what really made it a winning plan – and it spurred his continuing fascination with the cross-section of sustainability and real estate.

Preston has since earned a B.A. in history with a minor in Japanese, as well as JD and MBA degrees. He founded Jetson Green in 2006 and is still the sole owner and chief editor, with a staff of three contributors. Preston lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is currently a transactional attorney at Corbridge Baird & Christensen. He’s preparing for the LEED AP exam, and hopes to find the time soon to write a book.

Two of the energy-efficient homes recently featured on Jetson Green, from left: The Alley House in Madison Valley, Washington + the Green on 19 condos in Santa Monica, California.

One of the things that make Jetson Green so beloved by the online green community is the fact that the site focuses so much on realistic, affordable options for everyday people. Preston’s writing is infused with excitement about topics like flat-pack prefab energy-efficient homes, and nothing makes a blog more interesting to read than real enthusiasm.

Of his biggest green inspiration, Preston told Re-Nest,

My biggest green inspiration is probably not any one product or company in particular, it’s the momentum for good green products in general. Whether CFLs and LEDs, recycled content countertops and furniture, or Energy Star and WaterSense appliances and fixtures, all sorts of green products are widely available and they look good, too. Due to the increasing popularity of green certification systems, the need to put less garbage in land fills, and the favorable political and social climate for environmentalism, green materials have come out as big winners in design and construction. And this is good for everyone because good green materials won’t just be available to the rich or elite, they’ll be available to all of us. I like that and continue to monitor the future of materials going forward.

Preston, who is often asked to contribute comments on green building-related news stories and other blogs, is confident that the future of eco-friendly architecture is incredibly bright, writing on Jetson Green, “…the topic of green building has entered mainstream discourse as a major component of environmentalism — and it’s going to continue to dominate the discussion going forward.” We’re sure that Preston’s future is equally as promising.

Preston Koerner’s Green Score: 8,876

Who’s Who in Green: Simran Sethi

This week’s Who’s Who in Green puts the spotlight on Simran Sethi, an award-winning environmental journalist who has appeared on the Sundance Channel, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Ellen Degeneres Show, the Today Show and the Martha Stewart Show. Simran is one busy woman, with tons of green cred for all the work she’s done calling attention to environmental issues.

Born in 1970 in Germany and raised in North Carolina with Indian heritage, Simran has a list longer than her arm of astonishing career accomplishments as a freelance environmental journalist and has received many awards and recognition for her work.

Simran is a contributing environmental correspondent at NBC News and is currently writing a book on environmental justice for Harper Collins. She’s also the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, which won the bronze 2008 Axiom Award for Best Business Ethics book. She’s also NYU’s inaugural Goddard Fellow, Associate Fellow at the Asia Society, and is the Lacy C. Haynes Visiting Professional Chair at the University of Kansas School of Journalism, where she’s currently teaching a course on Media and the Environment.

You may recognize Simran from her many media appearances, her work with Treehugger or our own Top 25 Hottest Girls in Green feature. She’s the co-host/writer for the Sundance Channel’s environmental programming The Green, and is also a featured commentator for Big Ideas for a Small Planet. She anchors the Sundance interstitial business series EcoBiz and creator of the Sundance web series The Good Fight, which highlights global environmental justice efforts. She also hosts the Emmy-award winning PBS production A School in the Wood, which highlights environmental education efforts on Bainbridge Island. As part of the Treehugger team, Simran co-hosted, created and oversaw all video and audio content. She also writes regularly for The Huffington Post.

She was also honored with hosting duties at a forum on global warming with Al Gore, and moderated a panel on climate change at the first Clinton Global Initiative University. Other hosting credits include the podcast for the Alliance for Climate Protection, The EcoZone Project, and the series Keep it Green on Equator HD. She has produced documentaries for MTV News in the U.S., anchored news for MTV Asia and oversaw the MTV India News division. Simran also has her own production company, SHE TV.

Simran was celebrated for her environmental work in the 2007 Vanity Fair green issue, and Variety magazine recognized her as a ‘Woman of Impact’. She was also named one of the top Eco-Heroes of the Planet by the UK’s Independent.

While it’s hard to imagine how Simran finds the time for all of this work, she still feels as if she isn’t doing enough. Of what keeps her up at night, Simran told the Whole Life Times,

“Daily, I worry about being conscious of what I eat and how I live and what I buy. But I also want to have a macro focus, and sometimes I don’t know how to do both — looking beyond just me, and my world and how I consume. How can I, how can we work toward shifting the paradigm so there is greater equity across communities, across countries? That’s the part I don’t feel I’ve fully connected to yet. Because so far we’ve mostly focused on how to consume differently — which I think is a great entry point for people — but I’m also impatient to go further. How do we re-envision our world? That’s what I want to get to. I think the environmental justice movement is a key component of that, and that’s my goal in terms of self-education and the kind of organizations I want to promote, making sure they’re moving towards looking at environmentalism as a human rights issue. So what keeps me up at night is — did I do enough of it today? And where am I going to find time to do more, because I want to talk about all of these stories.”

What Simran’s basic goal comes down to is bringing environmentalism to the people, highlighting the fact that everyone has to start somewhere – so no matter how humble your initial foray into eco-friendliness might be, it’s still big – it’s a gift to the world. Simran wants everyone to consider how small daily actions, like using reusable cups instead of disposable ones, can cause a chain reaction that helps improve the state of the planet. The real-life tips for going green that she offers as the face of green media are just what people need to get off the pollution train and start being responsible.

Simran Sethi’s Green Score: 24,783

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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 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.”

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]

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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