Biography
Welcome to Heart of Green.
This is not about me; this is about our planet. But if you are wondering, in 2004 I changed my life completely and did a 180 from the Internet world to the environment. I gave up the cubicle, the free pens, and the IT manager whom I still miss dearly. In their place, I started a green practice and web site called Heart of Green.
The goal of Heart of Green is to enable and support modern green projects that protect the Earth for future generations and truly have a heart of green. Environment 2.0 essentially. No picket lines or tying myself to a tree, although I do love trees. Rather, clean technology, glamorous green events, eco-media, business greening, and luxurious regenerative design. The merging of sustainability with style. The joining of people, profit, and the planet. A journey whose work will thankfully never end as long as we live here.
Many people ask me what motivated this change? It was a calling frankly that found me, and once it did, there was no turning back. It stemmed from a realization that all life on Earth is connected, and that we have the power to be stewards of our planet for future generations.
With Heart of Green, I strive to share green successes, raise awareness about under-the-radar issues, and feature uplifting environmental events so we can celebrate. Hopefully you can attend. I frequently co-chair and co-host events that I feel have the intention and the potential to make a difference.
My mentors and continuing sources of inspiration are Al Gore, William McDonough, Wangari Maathai and the many incredible people I meet who are also crusading for the planet.
For inquiring minds, my background includes an engineering degree from Stanford, business consulting in Milan, an MBA from Harvard, product design for the EV1 electric vehicle in Detroit, Internet marketing for search engines and OpenTable.com, and venture investing in Silicon Valley.
I serve on the ForestEthics Board of Directors and am the co-chair of the Global Green San Francisco Committee and a founding member of the Full Circle Fund’s Environment & Energy Circle. Recent highlights have included co-hosting movie premieres of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour, co-chairing the Gorgeous & Green galas and the Brower Youth Environmental Awards, producing the U.N. World Environment Day Eco-Fashion Show, studying Cradle To Cradle design in Iceland, chairing the WildAid launch party to help save endangered tigers, leading ForestEthics 100 Million Trees to stop junk mail, co-hosting the Engage Network's Love Wins Gala with Van Jones, co-chairing the 2009 Clean Air Awards, and helping the San Francisco Film Festival and Jazz Festival, many businesses, some Oscar parties, and the City of Atherton go green. I also serve as the Vice-President of Special Projects for ecofabulous.com, an eco-editor for 944 Magazine, and an adviser to Julia Butterfly Hill's What Your Tree initiative. I appear on ABC7's View from the Bay TV show as an eco-expert and speak on panels and at schools about the environment.
In 2007, Breathe California awarded Heart of Green the Clean Air Award in public awareness.
Heart of Green embodies a passion for green, clean, and everything in between. I believe that green can be good for people's health, the environment, national security, and the economy - and it can be fun and stylish. Green is our distant past and our undeniable future. It has the power to unite us, not divide us. So be green and glamorous and don't ever give up hope!
Sincerely,
Nadine Weil
Founder, Heart of Green
a heart of green at g mail dot com
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About the name Heart of Green:
The name Heart of Green originated on an airplane in 2004. I was searching for a name that encapsulated the message and meaning of my life's new mission for the planet. While looking out into the clouds, the words heart of green came to me. I asked one of my mentors about it, and he encouraged me to go for it and thought that the name truly represented me at my core. For several years, no one could remember it. It was funny! It caused me to wonder if I had the right name a few times, but I stuck with it because I believed that we all have a heart of green inside. Now in 2009, people say that they love the name. This makes me happy because it means that the intention and spirit of the name are resonating and that is the ultimate goal.
