Simran Sethi is the contributing environmental correspondent and expert for NBC News, featured on Today, CNBC, and Nightly News with Brian Williams. The award-winning journalist is the Lacy C. Haynes Visiting Professional Chair at the School of Journalism for 2007-2008.

She is currently writing a book on the impacts of American consumption for Harper Collins and is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (Chelsea Green, 2007), the companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business Ethical Markets.

Sethi is the host/ writer of Sundance Channel's environmental programming The Green, a featured commentator and former story consultant for the original series Big Ideas for a Small Planet, winner of the 2007 Environmental Media Award. She is the anchor of the Sundance interstitial business series EcoBiz. She co-created and hosted the weekly audio podcast for TreeHugger.com, the largest environmental website on the Internet. Under her management, TreeHugger won the 2006 Vloggie for Best Green Vlog.

Lauded in Vanity Fair's green issue (April 2007) as the environmental "messenger," Sethi hosted a forum on global warming with Nobel Laureate Al Gore for MSN.com and created an audio podcast series for Gore's non-profit, The Alliance for Climate Protection. She has been identified as a Variety magazine Woman of Impact (August 2007), and named one of the top Eco-Heroes of 2007 by the UK's Independent (July 2007).

Sethi has contributed environmental segments to the Oprah Winfrey Show and has been featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and Martha Stewart Show, highlighting ways citizens can become more environmentally friendly. She is the "eco-expert" on the syndicated green home makeover show The EcoZone Project and the host of Voom HD Network's social and environmental series Keep It Green on Equator HD.

Sethi produced and anchored the news for MTV Asia, created and oversaw the MTV India news division, and developed programming for the BBC and others through her own production company SHE TV. She holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and graduated cum laude with a BA in Sociology and Women's Studies from Smith College.

Sethi's Top Web Site Picks:

http://alternet.org
http://sej.org
http://coolhunting.com
http://www.coopamerica.org
http://grist.org
http://treehugger.com