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Josh Dorfman


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Josh Dorfman is an environmental entrepreneur, media personality, and author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living. He is the founder and CEO of Vivavi, a retailer of modern, green furniture and home furnishings, and of ModernGreenLiving.com, Vivavi’s residential real estate directory for consumers seeking green homes. Inc. Magazine has called Vivavi one of the top 50 companies driving today’s green revolution.

From January, 2006 to January, 2008, Josh was the creator, producer, and host of The Lazy Environmentalist national radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is currently collaborating with the Sundance Channel to develop The Lazy Environmentalist for television.

About The Lazy Environmentalist book: Dwell Magazine called it, “a guide to going green without resorting to brown rice casserole.” Josh’s next book, The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget, will be published in 2009.

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 Newsweek Magazine’s Global Environment and Leadership Advisory Committee and the Wolf Trap Foundation’s National Advisory Council for the Arts and Environment.

Josh also sits on the Board of Advisors of Healing Lifestyles & Spa Magazine and is a frequent guest speaker about innovation-based environmentalism. He has spoken to Google, MTV Networks, Pepsico, and Bristol Myers Squibb.

As a green lifestyle expert, Josh has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, Fox & Friends, The Sundance Channel, MSNBC, Bravo, and numerous other television networks.

Josh holds an MBA from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.