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Schneider Electric’s Shon Anderson and UNT’s Dr. Todd Spinks
February 04, 2011

Shon Anderson is the Vice President of Energy Solutions Sales at Schneider Electric. The company services large, energy-hungry companies and facilities like college campuses and hospitals in more than 110 countries — covering a total of nearly 110,000 e

Kiss My Face’s Bob MacLeod and Green Beauty Expert Paige Padgett
January 28, 2011

Bob MacLeod co-founded Kiss My Face after simply being inspired by a generous bar of olive oil soap in Upstate New York in the late 1970s. After a year or so of making natural soaps, earth-friendly lotion followed, and the company began an unintentional e

Jay Kordich and Athgo International’s Armen Orujyan, Ph.D.
January 21, 2011

Listening to Jay Kordich on "Green is Good," it's hard to believe he is more than two decades past retirement age. A lifelong athlete, Kordich pioneered the juicing craze that has gained popularity in America over the past 60 years. Even as a collegiate p

Give Love’s Patricia Arquette and ALIVE Communities’ Doug Hammond & Heather Burns
January 14, 2011

Actress and social activist Patricia Arquette co-founded Give Love with designer Rosetta Getty in response to the devastation from last year's earthquake in Haiti. The group's aim is to help families displaced by the tragedy by creating housing using sust

RecycleMatch.com’s Brooke Farrell & IGIHOF’s Sam Geil
January 07, 2011

RecycleMatch.com's Brooke Farrell coins her site "the eBay of trash," and rightly so — the site is an online marketplace that connects companies with waste with companies that can in turn use those materials. The concept for this "trash marketplace" pa

Jesse Martinez and Jayni Chase
December 30, 2010

Jesse Martinez, a celebrated ecopreneur and founder of Western Image Systems, has been preaching paperless operating to small businesses since 2008. "Globally, the consumption of paper is going down," Martinez reveals. "But there are still file cabinets,

Fresno Yosemite Airport’s Russ Widmar and Agrion’s Jennifer Jackson
December 23, 2010

Russ Widmar is the Aviation Director at Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FYI). FYI, which has daily flights from Fresno, CA, to cities all over the West and to Mexico, is leading California airports in the greenspace. The airport has cut back on it

Jamak’s Al Micallef and 100,000 Green Jobs’ Dr. Shawn Kantor
December 17, 2010

Al Micallef has painted himself an ecopreneur for years on top of nearly 30 years of ranching experience in his home state of Texas. A sort of jack of all trades, Micallef counts business owner, green agriculture expert, helicopter pilot, restaurateur and

Green Parking Council’s Marc Alt and PGA Green’s Kathleen Courtney
December 10, 2010

Marc Alt is the Executive Director of the Green Parking Council, a nonprofit organization launched in 2010 that examines the sustainable future of parking. The organization’s influence spans the concepts of green building, clean technology, renewable en

Green Irene and Albert Straus of Straus Family Creamery
December 03, 2010

Ecopreneurs P.J. Stafford and Rosamaria Caballero founded GreenIrene.com in 2007. The pair were attempting to give their own home a green makeover when the light bulb went off — why not help others green their homes? Just a few years after launching, G