About Us

What Is The Daily Green?
Heart of Green Awards
Who Is The Daily Green?
Contact The Daily Green
Media Requests
Follow and Friend The Daily Green
Editorial Policy
Intern With The Daily Green

What Is The Daily Green?

Born on Earth Day 2007, The Daily Green earned a min Best of the Web award for Best New Site, and has since grown into one of the most trusted sources on the Web for news and information about going green. Our mission is to broaden the audience for earth-friendly living by showing how going green is relevant to everyone.

The Daily Green features daily news, tips, seasonal recipes and community photos. We have a host of bloggers and contributors, and our features cover a variety of topics, including gardening, nutrition and food safety; saving money and energy at home, in the car and everywhere else; the latest research about global warming and the health risks of chemicals and toxic toys; as well as unique topics you'll find nowhere else (like that architectural marvel, the shipping container home). We are happy to publish the work of many talented writers, and we're proud to partner with some of the most effective nonprofit organizations in the U.S., including the NRDC, the National Audubon Society and the American Lung Association.

The Daily Green is for everyday average real people. It helps that our editorial team is made up of three real people who really care -- so feel free to contact us.

Heart of Green Awards

The annual Heart of Green Awards honor individuals, businesses and organizations that help make green go mainstream.

In 2009, The Daily Green celebrated its first annual Heart of Green Awards ceremony, with a star-studded gala, sponsored by Ebay, at the Hearst Tower in Manhattan.

The event, part of Hearst's annual 30 Days of Green campaign, attracted wide media attention and served to further the causes of 11 worthy individuals and organizations.

Get a flavor for the event by watching this video:

Who Is The Daily Green?

Dan Shapley, senior web editor
Dan, an award-winning journalist, learned about the environment by growing up in the upstate New York with a family that reduced, reused and recycled as a way of life; by writing about New York's Hudson Valley for his hometown paper, the Poughkeepsie Journal; and by never hesitating to ask dumb questions of smart people. He likes farmers and farmers' markets, volunteers for his town's environmental board, has a big pet peeve about wasting stuff (energy, food, packaging... ) and feels most content when hiking with his dog.
Email: dshapley@hearst.com

Brian Clark Howard, web editor
Brian has been an environmental journalist for eight years, and was previously managing editor of E/The Environmental Magazine. He has written for Plenty, The Green Guide, Connecticut Magazine, AlterNet and elsewhere, and is the co-author and co-editor of several books, including Green Living and a forthcoming guide from Rodale. He grew up in the Midwest and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. Howard has tried hemp clothes and bags, natural cleaners, biking to work and new light bulbs, and has tried composting about everything under the sun. He also spends a lot of time on the Internet, is addicted to social media, and blogs as the URTH Guy (green Urban Style, Recycling and Reuse, Technology and E-Culture, and (hopefully) Humor).
Email: bhoward@hearst.com

Gloria Dawson, photo and web editor
Gloria worked at Seventeen and Allure magazines before joining The Daily Green as its first employee. She loves volunteering, cool green urban projects and taking, finding and Photoshopping amazing photos. Gloria was introduced to "green" as an elementary school student at The Waldorf School of Garden City, where composting your organic lunch scraps was the norm. She likes to think of The Daily Green as an extension of the environmental club she started in middle school.
Email: gdawson@hearst.com

Deborah Jones Barrow, founder
Read a letter from our founder.

The TDG Family

The Daily Green's regular contributors include:

Jim DiPeso, The Green Conservative
Kim Flottum, The Beekeeper
Shauna James Ahern, The Gluten-Free Girl
Alex Hallatt, author of Arctic Circle
Amelia Harnish, editorial intern
Michael de Jong, The Zen Cleaner
Leslie Land, The Green Grower
Diane MacEachern, of Big Green Purse
Jim Motavalli, of Driving Directions
Marion Nestle, of What to Eat
Kate Peake, community coordinator
Ned Sullivan, of Backyard Matters
Tommi Lewis Tilden, covering The Green Carpet in Hollywood
Starre Vartan, the Eco-Chick
Elizabeth Wolfe, editorial intern
Jeff Yeager, The Green Cheapskate
Olivia Zaleski, now of CNN Money's The Business of Green
Lexy Zissu, our Organic Mom

We'd also be remiss if we didn't mention our dearly departed food editors (it's like Spinal Tap over here, sometimes) Karen Berner and Annie Bell Muzaurieta. Their talents (and snacks) are sorely missed.

The Daily Green.com is published by Hearst Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines. The people who support The Daily Green throughout Hearst Digital Media are too numerous to name -- it's a lot, and we thank them.

Hearst Corporation, the parent company of Hearst Magazines, has been at the forefront of raising awareness for and addressing environmental concerns. Among Hearst's accomplishments on the environmental front, the most recognized are the company’s completion of Hearst Tower, the first LEED gold-certified skyscraper in New York (The Daily Green can testify, while basking in cubicles washed in natural light, that this is one great building); partnering with the State of California, California Rangeland Trust and American Land Conservancy in 2005 to form the largest conservation easement in history (82,000 acres) in San Simeon, Calif.; and participating in philanthropic tree planting through National Arbor Day Foundation and New York Restoration Project.

Contact The Daily Green

Send press releases and product pitches to news@thedailygreen.com

Send books and products for review to: The Daily Green, 300 West 57th St, New York, NY 10019

For news and other editorial inquiries: Dan Shapley
For tips and other editorial inquiries: Brian Clark Howard
For photos and other editorial inquries: Gloria Dawson
For advertising inquiries: Hearst Digital Media
For partnership inquiries: Dan Shapley
For interview and other media requests: Jessica Kleiman
To report technical problems or issues with the site: admin@thedailygreen.com

Media Requests

The Daily Green's editors are available to speak on a wide variety of topics, from the basics of going green to the breaking news of the day.

The Daily Green's experts have appeared on the Today Show, ABC News Now, Live with Regis & Kelly and other television shows. The Daily Green has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, O - the Oprah Magazine, Seventeen and many other print publications. The Daily Green's editors have been interviewed and consulted on a number of media reports for print, radio, television and the Web.

To arrange an interview, contact Jessica Kleiman.

Follow and Friend The Daily Green

The Daily Green is active on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and YouTube, and you can also follow us via RSS or our free daily e-newsletter. Click here for more social media details.

Editorial Policy

The Daily Green works with a variety of writers and also publishes community submissions on various topics. We aim to publish content that is independently researched, unbiased and relevant to our audience. Submissions are subject to our community guidelines, our privacy policy and terms of service. Publication is subject to our editorial judgement and our schedule.

To get started, go ahead and submit news, tips, recipes and photos.

Intern With The Daily Green

The Daily Green has the opportunity to work with a small number of unpaid interns who can get college credit through their colleges and universities. For all the details, see The Daily Green's Editorial Internship Program.