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Schneider Electric’s Shon Anderson and UNT’s Dr. Todd Spinks
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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