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Entrepreneur and Author

BIO

Josh Dorfman, host of Sundance Channel's new original program THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST and a commentator for BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET on THE GREEN, the Channel's weekly primetime destination devoted to environmental programming, is an environmental entrepreneur, media personality and author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living (April 2007) and the recently published The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget (April 2009). He created THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST as a talk radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio from 2006 to 2008, and is the founder and CEO of Vivavi, a retailer of modern, green furniture and home furnishings, which Inc. Magazine has called one of the top 50 companies driving today's green revolution.

As an advocate for positive environmental change, Josh also serves as spokesperson for Brita's FilterForGood campaign to help reduce bottled water waste and for Green Works, Clorox's line of natural cleaning products. He is a member of the Wolf Trap Foundation's National Advisory Council for the Arts and Environment and has served on Newsweek Magazine's Global Environment and Leadership Advisory Committee.

Josh is a frequent guest speaker, presenting his message of positive, solutions-based environmentalism to numerous audiences. He addressed the Aspen Institute's Environment Leadership Forum; companies such as Google, MTV Networks, Pepsico, and Bristol Myers Squibb; and educational institutions such as Thunderbird, the School of Global Management, Notre Dame University and George Washington University. He has keynoted industry events such as Green + Design and Opportunity Green, for which he also serves on the Board of Advisors. As a green lifestyle expert, Josh has appeared on "The Martha Stewart Show" and "The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch," among others, and writes a weekly column for the Mother Nature Network.

Josh holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management. His international background includes posts at the Economist Intelligence Unit in Hong Kong and Delphi Automotive Systems in Paris, France, and Kryptonite Bike Locks in Nanjing, China where, in 1996, he had his major environmental epiphany. While traveling throughout China selling bicycle locks, Josh recognized that this hugely populated country of a billion bicyclists would one day develop into a nation of a billion car drivers, causing potentially unprecedented stress on the local and global environment. How all nations enable their populations to raise their living standards while simultaneously bringing their lifestyles into balance with nature is a vital challenge for the 21st century and is what Josh's ventures strive to address.