American journalist and environmental activist Chip Giller is best known as the founder of Grist.com, a website, says Time magazine, "that changes minds about the environment with mordant wit instead of earnest gloom."
As a senior in high school in Fresno, CA, Tyler Shegerian founded Greenager.com because, while working at his parents' company Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), he saw a need to reach out to young people everywhere and give them a forum to learn, explore, teach and communicate ways to better the planet. At ERI, he learned firsthand there that the things teenagers value most-TVs, computers, cell phones-contain hazardous materials like lead and mercury, which harm the environment if not disposed of properly. We spoke to Shegerian about how he's utilizing Greenager.com to share this kind of information while learning from others all around the world about things he can do to make the planet healthier.
Founded in 2008 by a team of concerned entrepreneurs, ThinkEco is a New York City-based company that strives to make it easy for everyone-both business owners and homeowners-to save money and energy. Mei Shibata, one of ThinkEco's three co-founders and the company's Chief Business Officer, tells how the company works and describes its upcoming projects.
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who focuses on global warming and alternative energy, as well as advocates for more localized economies. Time magazine has called him "the world's best green journalist." His organization, 350.org, led him to be named to Foreign Policy magazine's inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men in 2009. GreenRealEstateDaily.com caught up with McKibben to find out what 350.org is all about, and what was behind the inaugural Global Work Party on October 10, 2010.
As the founder of the award-winning New Jersey-based landscape architects firm Back to Nature, LEED AP Anthony Sblendorio is not only completed the first LEED Gold project in the Northeast, but has become a leader in "regenerative development" with his new development firm, Ecological Group. We spoke to him about what regenerative development entails, and what his new firm-co-founded with former New York Gov. George Pataki and Joseph Grano, CEO of Centurion Holdings, LLC-hopes to achieve in this up-and-coming field.
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