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"1. Rachelle Carson Begley costars with her husband, Ed Begley Jr., on Living With Ed, a green reality show about their life as environmentalists living off natural energy in Los Angeles. 2. As the global energy manager of Whole Foods Market, Kathy Loftus focuses on energy management as well as green building practices. 3. Jacqueline Lombard is the founder of Jacqueline Lombard Events, a Brooklyn-based catering company that uses organic and local ingredients. Her company recycles 75 percent of its waste, and she composts 20 percent of it herself in her garden. 4. As a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an organization working to protect people, the places they live and the natural resources they depend on, Kate Sinding fights for eco-policies and laws. 5. Kelly Cox is the editor of the Natural Resources Defense Council&amp;#x27;s website itsyournature.org 6. Elizabeth Royte is the author of Bottlemania, a book about protecting the Earth&amp;#x27;s water-supply, and Garbage Land, a book about the trash crisis. 7. Margaret Lydecker is the U.S. head and founder of Green Drinks, an international networking organization in more than 400 cities worldwide. It seeks to connect green-minded people so that together they can help the planet. 8. Jeanie Pyun is the editor of sprig.com, a website geared toward inspiring people to do just a few more things greener every day. The site also shows the impact that small actions have on our planet. 9. Makeup artist Jessa Blades uses natural and organic products. She is the founder of Blades Natural Beauty, which advises women on how to green up their beauty routines. 10. As a managing director at the Environmental Defense Fund, a leading nonprofit dedicated to coming up with solutions to the most pressing eco problems, Diane Regas leads the group&amp;#x27;s Oceans Program. 11. Maria Tikoff Vargas is the brand manger for EPA&amp;#x27;s Energy Star, which identifies and promotes energy-efficient products and practices. She is also the director of strategic partnerships of the Climate Protection Partnerships Division of the Environmental Protection Agency. www.energystar.gov 12.Irmelin DiCaprio is the CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. It seeks to raise eco-awareness through projects such as The 11th Hour, a documentary about the need to change our environmental course before it&amp;#x27;s too late. 13. One of Glamour&amp;#x27;s Women of the Year in 2007, Alice Waters is the founder and chef of Chez Panisse, an organic restaurant in Berkeley, California. A trailblazer in her field, she urged people to eat locally, seasonally and organically long before other restaurants were doing so. She also started the Chez Panisse Foundation, which teaches children about the relationship between the food that they eat their health. 14. Designer Jenny Hwa founded Loyale, an organic clothing line that strives to create a balance between cutting-edge fashion and concern for the environment. 15. Cindy Kang is the executive director of Green Corps, an organization that trains young organizers for the environmental movement. 16. Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya&amp;#x27;s most recent work is A Drop of Life, a sci-fi movie about the global water crisis. She also speaks at colleges around the country to educate students about environmental issues and encourage activism. http://www.7thempiremedia.com/ 17. Q&amp;#x27;orianka Kilcher is an actress (she appeared in the historical drama The New World as Pocahontas) as well as an Amnesty International youth ambassador. 18. In her work as a project director for Greenpeace, Samantha Rodgers fights along with the organization to keep a constant dialogue about the impact we have on the environment. 19. Karen Solomon is the cofounder and CEO of Opportunity Green, an organization whose goal is to advance sustainability in companies and in the business world in general. 20. Actress and activist Alicia Silverstone is the author of the upcoming The Kind Diet, a vegan diet and nutrition book that focuses on being kind to the planet, animals and your body. 21. Model Josie Maran is the founder of the all natural makeup line Josie Maran Cosmetics. 22. Antha Williams is a grant maker for U.S. green projects. 23. Anna Lappe cofounded the Small Planet Institute, an eco think tank. She has also written two books about living an earth-friendly life: Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen with Bryant Terry and Hope&amp;#x27;s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, which she wrote with her mother, Frances Moore Lapp&amp;amp;eacute;. 24. Wendy Gordon is the founder of National Geographic Green Guide, a website aimed at giving consumers practical ways to become more eco-savvy. 25. Janelle Hope Robbins is a staff scientist for the Waterkeeper Alliance, which strives to protect the planet&amp;#x27;s water from pollution. 26. Margo Bettencourt is the energy conservation project manager for the City of New York Office of Energy Conservation. 27. While still in high school, Tehreem Rehman founded the group Long Island Teen Environmental Activists with the goal of teaching people about the relationship between health problems and pollution. 28. In the summer before her sophomore year at Dartmouth College, activist Alice Bradley boarded a vegetable-oil-fueled bus with 11 of her classmates and traveled the country to teach Americans about climate change and energy issues. 29. Tara Davis starred with her renowned anthropologist father, Wade Davis, in Grand Canyon Adventure, a film about the water crisis. 30. As cohost of Discovery Planet Green&amp;#x27;s G Word, SuChin Pak offers viewers innovative ways to go green and compelling reasons to try them. 31. Margaret Teich is a green trend-spotter and eco-branding expert who writes the blog g-spotting.net. 32. As the vice president of conferences and events for the U.S. Green Building Council, Kimberly Lewis plans the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo--the biggest conference on sustainable and eco-conscious building in the world. 33. Rebecca Carter is the cofounder and marketing director of ecorazzi.com, a website that tracks how celebs support environmental, humanitarian and animal-rights causes. She is also the founder and editor of greenerMIAMI, a regional environmental blog. 34. Maggie Wood is the founder and principal of Maggie Wood Design &amp;amp; Consulting, a company that advises commercial and residential builders on sustainable design. 35 and 36. Idealbite.com cofounders Jennifer Bouldon and Heather Stephenson had one mission: to create a site where people could go for daily manageable bits of green advice and suggestions. 37. Lisa P. Jackson is the administrator of theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is the main federal organization that focuses on the protection of the environment. Nominated for the position by President Obama in December 2008, she oversees regional environmental agencies across the United States. She is the first African-American to hold the position. 38. Peggy Shepard is the executive director and co-founder of We Act For Environmental Justice (West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.), an environmental justice group that focuses on improving the lives of people of color in New York City. 39. Anna Aurilio is the Washington, D.C., director of Environment America, a federation made up of state-based environmental organizations working toward preserving America&amp;#x27;s rivers, halting global warming and using renewable energy to revive the economy. 40. As policy adviser for the New York City Mayor&amp;#x27;s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability, Kizzy Charles-Guzman advocates for improving the city&amp;#x27;s air quality. 41. Jane Houlihan is the vice president of research for the Environmental Working Group. She leads research that exposes health risks from toxins in food, air, water and consumer products and is a national spokesperson for environmental health. 42. Sharon Rowe is the CEO of Ecobags, a company that makes bags out of hemp and organic cotton so that people can quit using plastic ones. 43. Lisa Price began making beauty products out of ingredients she had in her New York City kitchen in 1993, and today her company, Carol&amp;#x27;s Daughter, produces organic body, bath, skin-care and hair treatments. 44.Deirdre Imus is the author of the Green This! series about embracing environmentally friendly habits. She is also the founder of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, a nonprofit research organization devoted to identifying and eliminating pollutants. 45. Cammy Watkins is a coordinator for the Sierra Club&amp;#x27;s Cool Cities Program, which pushes cities and city dwellers to adopt energy-saving solutions. The Sierra Club is the oldest environmental organization in the United States, founded in 1892. 46. As a featured designer on HGTV&amp;#x27;s Designed to Sell, Taniya Nayak is an authority on green interior design. She also has her own design firm, Design Digs. 47. Hope Solo is a goalie for the U.S. women&amp;#x27;s Olympic gold-medal-winning 2008 soccer team. She&amp;#x27;s a member of GreenLaces, a group of athletes who&amp;#x27;ve pledged to help save the planet. 48. Diane MacEachern is the CEO of Big Green Purse, an organization founded to enable people to use their powers as consumers to protect the environment. She is also the author of Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World. 49. Sarah Beatty founded Green Depot in 2005. It makes green building materials readily available so that the choice for sustainable building is an easier one. 50. Freelance designer Jill Fehrenbacher is the founder and editor of the sustainable design blog inhabitat.com. 51. Starre Vartan is the editor of eco-chick.com, a green blog that strives for a funny and female look at the green life. She is also the author of The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green. 52. Global-warming activist Laurie David is the founder of stopglobalwarming.org and a producer of An Inconvenient Truth. 53. Meteorologist Heidi Cullen is the climate expert at the Weather Channel as well as a senior research scientist at Climate Central, which focuses on distributing current research and information on climate change. 54. Sandra Keil is the vice president of Governmental Relations and Business Development for earth911.com, a website about ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. 55. As a program assistant for American Forests, Sheri Shannon promotes the benefits of trees and forests, and fights to preserve our natural habitat. 56. Majora Carter founded the green-economic development consulting firm the Majora Carter Group as well as the environmental justice organization Sustainable South Bronx, which fights for an economic and environmental revival in the South Bronx of New York City and other communities like it. 57. Pro race-car driver Leilani Munter wants to spread the eco-message at NASCAR by getting environmental groups to sponsor her (thereby raising their visibility to both the crowds and TV viewers). She is also an ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation. http://carbonfreegirl.com/ 58. Model and eco-activist Summer Rayne Oakes is the author of Style, Naturally, a guide to sustainable fashion and beauty. 59. Susan West Kurz is the board president of Dr. Hauschka Skin Care, a company that produces natural beauty products. She is the author of Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way. 60. As communications manager for Earth Day Network, Raquel Garcia is responsible for spreading the word about the company&amp;#x27;s mission to broaden the movement towards environmentalism. 61. Claire Douglass is partnerships director of carbonfund.org, a site that provides an accessible way for people to offset their carbon footprints by giving money to groups that are doing the environment good. 62. Jewelry designer Lisa Salzer makes pieces out of antique or recycled materials. http://lulufrost.com/ (launching soon) 63. As the host of Planet Green&amp;#x27;s Hollywood Green, Maria Menounos covers celebs living the eco-life. 64. Leslie Hoffman is the president and executive director of Earth Pledge, an organization that seeks to advance sustainability by working with different companies and organizations in different fields. 65. Jessy Tolkan is the executive director of the Energy Action Coalition, which mobilizes leading youth groups in North America to spread the message about green energy sources. 66. In her work as a campus climate challenge lead organizer for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, Kari Fulton challenges students to get involved 67. Jane Hoffman is coauthor of Green: Your Place in the New Revolution, a book about renewable energy. 68. Sara Snow is a green living expert for cnn.com. She has her own program, Get Fresh With Sara Snow, on Discovery Health and FitTV. 69. Karen Behnke is a cofounder of Juice Beauty, a line of organic skin care. 70. Model Christie Brinkley is a supporter of the Peconic Land Trust, a preservation group in Long Island, New York. 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