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| Hank Green | |
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| Background information | |
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| Birth name | William Henry Green II |
| Born | May 5, 1980 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. |
| Nationality | American |
| Internet activity | |
| Genre(s) | blogging, vlogging |
| Subjects | Green Technology |
| Notable work(s) | Brotherhood 2.0, Ecogeek |
| Official site | www.HankGreen.com |
William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional blogger and the founder of the environmental technology blog EcoGeek. He has also achieved limited Internet fame through his day-to-day video blogs, known as the Brotherhood 2.0 Project, along with his brother, award-winning author John Green.
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[edit] Personal life
Soon after birth, Hank and his family moved to Orlando, Florida. There he attended Winter Park High School from which he graduated in 1998. He went on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in biochemistry from Eckerd College and later a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. He currently resides in Missoula, Montana, with his wife Katherine and their cat.
[edit] Career
In highschool, Green was fascinated by Mars and the prospect of human colonization. This led inevitably to his first publication, a piece for the Marswest Project, titled "Let's go to Mars" [1]. According to his vlog on April 2nd, he was also one of the 'founding members' of the Mars Society[2]
In Grad School, he conceived Ecogeek, one of his biggest successes. Starting out as a class project[3], Ecogeek has evolved into a major environmental blog[4][5], averaging some 20000 page views per day[6]. The Ecogeek group now includes four other environmental blogs that he helped start[7] - Carectomy, Envirovore, Envirowonk and Wearing the Future - each of them focusing on a different aspect of environmentalism.
Green used to be occupied as a freelance web developer, designing websites for non-profits. He has also developed the webpages for projects of his own, including Brotherhood 2.0 and Ecogeek. The latter is his full time job now[8]. Writing about environmental issues, he gets published on various environmental blogs, including Treehugger.com and Yahoo! Green.
He has made an appearance on The Weather Channel once[9], and has written book reviews for the New York Times twice[10][11]. Hank, as well as his brother John, has written several articles for Mental Floss magazine and both participated in writing the book Mental Floss: Scatterbrained[12]
[edit] Brotherhood 2.0
Hank and his brother John ran a reasonably popular video blog project called Brotherhood 2.0[13][14]. The original project ran from January 1 to December 31, 2007, with the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based ("textual") communication for the year and instead converse by video blogs, made available to the public via YouTube and on their website[15]. During the project, Hank wrote songs on Wednesdays. His most succesful song is Accio Deathly Hallows[1], a song about the last Harry Potter book. The video got featured on YouTube and, with just under a million views, still remains their most viewed video.
In the December 31, 2007 video, it was revealed that the brothers had decided not to stop vlogging even though the project had ended. John and Hank now continue to post vlogs, at least once a week, on their Youtube account, Vlogbrothers. With over 28000 subscribers, they are the 52nd most subscribed directors on Youtube. Their videos have been watched over 12 million times.
[edit] See Also
John Green
Environmentalism
List of YouTube celebrities
[edit] References
- ^ Let's go to Mars!
- ^ Please Google, take me to Mars - YouTube
- ^ EcoGeek Makes a Splash in Debut, Jonathan Weber, NewWest.net
- ^ Green Websites - Time; Green Websites
- ^ Top 35 Environmental Blogs
- ^ Sitemeter.com
- ^ Wearing The Future - About Us
- ^ Ethical Heroes: Hank Green
- ^ TWC, Forecast Earth,Getting the Word Out, (aired 2007-06-17)
- ^ A Round Table on Harry Potter - New York Times, 2007-12-08
- ^ Notes on a sick planet - New York Times, 2007-10-14
- ^ Mental Floss: Scatterbrained,HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, ISBN 9780060882501
- ^ Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging, NPR, All Things Considered, January 20, 2008
- ^ Brotherhood 2.0 (Description,video), Point Click & Go, Fox News Mobile, August 14, 2007
- ^ Brotherhood 2.0
