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Jeffrey Hollender’s title is Chief Inspired Protagonist, or CIP. He is cofounder of Seventh Generation, one of North America’s most trusted brands of environmentally and socially responsible household products. But the products that occupy half an isle of shelving in every natural grocery in the US and Canada are actually the offspring of a line of energy-conservation products once available only from Jeffrey’s mail-order catalog, Renew America. Seventh Generation is now the leading and fastest-growing brand of natural products for the home, and the leading authority on issues related to making a positive difference in the health of the planet and its inhabitants through our everyday choices. Read on…

Wallace “J.” Nichols has an inordinate fondness for sea turtles. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the “Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles in Baja California, Mexico.” In 1998 he founded Grupo Tortuguero, an international grassroots movement dedicated to restoring Pacific sea turtles and to sustainable management of ocean fisheries. In 1999 he co-founded WiLDCOAST, an international conservation team dedicated to the protection of coastal wilderness where he and a diverse group of partners organized fishermen to protect endangered sea turtles and helped coastal ranchers protect their shores for future generations. Read on…

Tom Wyant gets some strange calls. Recently, he got one about a public display of affection. It seemed a young couple had parked themselves beneath some poor woman’s window and decided it was as good a place as any to get romantic. Wyant’s job was to relocate the amorous couple to a more appropriate setting. His job was made more difficult by one single fact: the couple in question was a pair of Western Diamondback rattlesnakes. Read on...

Environmentalism has been a key talking point in US politics for decades. Every person who steps into public office is compelled to at least fake an interest in protecting the natural world. Pledges to save the trees and endangered species are standard-issue campaign rhetoric. So politicians must be judged on their policies, not just their stump speeches. We think the following presidents demonstrated at least some sincere concern for environmental issues. None of them are perfect when it comes to ecology, but overall they’ve shown enough green concern that they rise to the top of the presidential crop. Read on...

Environmental policy has always been complicated. It’s not easy to find a balance between using natural resources to provide the things people need—like jobs, food and housing—and protecting the natural world for its own sake. But some White House residents were downright anti-green. Here are EcoHearth's picks for the least ecological presidents. (Two of them, incidentally, appear in the photograph that illustrates this piece.) Read on...