This article is dedicated to fascinating and inspiring green people that made a positive difference that impacted in our lives and our environment in 2011.
Fascinating Green people are woman and men that inspire others in many different places and different work areas. Their work and passions for the Green movement in 2011 give us pride for 2011 and hope for 2012.
1. Reena Kazmann
Inspiring Support to Artisans
Reena showcases beautiful, earth-friendly gifts made by artists committed to sustainability. Washington, DC-based Eco-Artware.com currently features the original work of more than 25 independent artisans who transform used or discarded materials into exciting, innovative designs.
Some of the most popular Art Eco-works include chairs made from retired aluminum road signs, jewelry that started life as manual typewriter keys, and bowls, coasters and other fun and useful items crafted from vintage vinyl records. Reena Kazmann uses Eco-Artware.com to prove that it is possible to live well while living lightly on the planet.
2. Betsy Rosenberg
She Talks Green !
Betsy is a veteran of CBS Radio News with a specialty in environmentalreporting, Betsy Rosenberg launched EcoTalk – formerly TrashTalk – on KCBS Radio in San Francisco in 1997. She produced and hosted one-minute segments covering green lifestyles with a consumer focus and a “news-you-can-use” approach. Rosenberg hosted EcoTalk as an hour-long interview program on Air America Radio. It was the nation’s first syndicated environmental show on commercial radio and was the only green hour to air as a prime-time daily program.
She is currently hosting On the Green Front on the Progressive Radio Network, and at the same time she is launching a new project, Green-To-Go radio features (quick tips, lasting impact). Green-To-Go will be syndicated on mainstream channels nationwide.
As the co-founder of Don’t Be Fueled! – Mothers For Clean and Safe Vehicles, she leads a national campaign aimed at increasing supply and demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Rosenberg is a graduate of The Climate Project, Al Gore’s training program created to better educate the public about global warming, and she has been a regular guest on local and national television programs, including CNN Headline News and Fox News.
Rosenberg speaks about greening our lifestyles, climate change, fuel-efficient vehicles and her work on the Don’t Be Fueled! campaign, and green radio.
3. Carl Safina
Passion that Inspires
Carl Safina is a prominent ecologist and marine conservationist and president of Blue
Ocean Institute, an environmental organization based in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He has also been a recreational fisherman since childhood. “I love the hunt and know the thrill of the kill,” Safina told William J. Broad for the New York Times (September 22, 1998). “But I’m not sure we should be doing it. They [the fish] need a break.” After reaching the conclusion that, if overfishing was to continue at the current rate, entire populations of fish might cease to exist, Safina became an advocate for the very creatures he grew up hunting.
Safina has founded and participated in many organiations, has written books with the goal to inspire, rather than demand, conservation by using science, art and literature to build a “sea ethic” and a greater appreciation for the oceans and their inhabitants. Everyone has to be part of the solution. There’s little use in commercial and recreational fishers pointing fingers at each other,” Safina said in an article for AScribe Newswire (August 26, 2004). “Commercial fishing is not all bad and recreational fishing is not all good. A fish doesn’t care if you are a commercial or a recreational fisherman. It only cares if it surrounded by water—or on ice.”
4. Tom Holm
Inspiring Adventures
Tom Holm heads up the ECO-TREK foundation. A non-profit organization, that conducts research to advance the use of renewable fuels. Tom is passionate about education, and I understand that he is currently planning a “Protect & Preserve America” tour that will showcase US companies that are making a difference with Eco-friendly products.
5. Peggy Cross
Innovation that Inspires
Peggy cross has a smart innovation that can diminish the amount of plastic waste that pollutes our environment and lives in landfills. In the effort combat the “one taste plastic waste” created by single use utensils, entrepreneur Peggy Cross created EcoTensil. EcoTensil is the maker of ultra-green paperboard utensils that feature smart innovation to solve a simple problem.
6. Lonnie Gamble
Live Your Preaching
Professor of sustainability at Maharishi University of Management and founder of the EcoVillage in Fairfield, Iowa is inspirational because Lonnie simply lives what he speaks. All day, every day he shares his knowledge with gusto. Professor Gamble has developed one of the most innovative sustainability programs in the United States bringing students from all over the world to study with him. His vision for this program and the Eco Village, an off the grid housing development, have changed both individual lives and the community in which he lives. Most importantly, he makes green accessible to every person.
7. Chaundra Smith
Real Beauty Inspires
Chaundra awomen promote an eco-healthy lifestyle as well as giving back to their community. A single mom with a big heart, Chaundra Smith is the woman behind certifiedvegan beauty brand, Naturally Me (Sometimes when
life gives you lemons, you MUST make lemonade. That’s what Chaundra Smith did in 2008 when she took her passion and turned it into a profession after being laid off. Looking at the situation as one door closing and another one opening to a new opportunity, Chaundra created Naturally Me.
Naturally Me is more than a spa brand but also the vehicle for Chaundra’s charitable work. Remembering her humble beginnings, Chaundra recently created a series of scholarships that benefit students participating in the Single Parent program at Durham Technical College. She also holds a special place in her heart for the military. Late last year, Chaundra launched a special promo called To Soldiers With Love, where soap and other much needed toiletries are sent along with handwritten thank you notes to members of the armed forces stationed all over the world. Each month, the 40 year old, sends toiletries to a local group home from teenage moms.
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Fabulous article and very inspiring to read of such people who dedicate their lives to worthwhile life changing projects. I especially enjoyed reading about Chaundra.
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