Twitter se ha convertido en los últimos años en una gran herramienta para conocer más sobre los temas más relevantes relacionados con ambientalismo. Cientos de activistas, periodistas y demás expertos usan la red social para dar a conocer los problemas más apremientes y las soluciones más innovadoras. Es por eso que el portal Corporate Knights, en conjunto con Brandwatch, empresa especializada en el análisis de redes sociales, publicaron hace unas semanas un ranking de los cien mejores «ecotuiteros.»
El listado se decidió mediante una «calificación verde», calculada teniendo en cuenta tres factores: autoridad, audiencia y actividad. Entre las 10 mil personas analizadas, se armó una lista final con los cien mejores usuarios, entre los que se encuentran tanto individuos que han logrado tener una gran cantidad se seguires hasta ambientalistas profesionales. Así, dice al publicación, se logró reunir a quienes tienen la «mayor credibilidad verde» dentro de Twitter.
En el primer lugar se encuentra el periodista Bill McKibben, fundador de la organización independiente 350.org e impulsor de encontrar alternativas a los combustibles fósiles. McKibben se unió a Twitter en 2009 y en la actualidad cuenta con más de 150 mil seguidores, logrando una «calificación verde» casi perfecta de 94 de 100.
En segundo lugar está el columnista de The Guardian George Monbiot, con el mismo puntaje. Completando el top 5 están la activista de Greenpeace Irina Tikhomirova, la secretaria ejecutiva de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático Christiana Figueres y Judd Legum, director ejecutivo del sitio web Think Progress.
La lista es muy heterogénea, incluyendo al ex vicepresidente de Estados Unidos Al Gore, a la escritora Margaret Atwood y a las superestrellas de Hollywood Leonardo DiCaprio y Mark Ruffalo, pasando por grandes hombres de negocios como Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Michael Bloomberg y Bill Gates, pero quienes dominan el ranking son los periodistas.
Para facilitar que los lectores puedan seguir a los 100 usuarios, Corporate Knights creó un listado en la red social, además de publicar una tabla en la que aprecen los nombres reales, nombres de usuario, biografías de Twitter y la calificación de cada uno. Esta puede consultarse a continuación:
| 1 | Bill McKibben | @billmckibben | Author, Educator, Environmentalist and Founder of http://t.co/Wy9Mw8NGD7 | 94 |
| 2 | George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot | «I love not man the less, but Nature more» – Guardian columnist and environmentalist | 94 |
| 3 | Irina Tikhomirova | @IrinaGreenVoice | Master’s in Environmental Protection/Greenpeace Online Activist. Digital artist,Dreamer,Veggie, Love our Planet,Tweet to inspire #SaveTheArctic #FreeTheArctic30 | 92 |
| 4 | Christiana Figueres | @CFigueres | Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Passionate about fighting climate change. Mother of two wonderful young ladies. | 92 |
| 5 | Judd Legum | @JuddLegum | Editor-in-chief @thinkprogress. Gchat: [email protected]. | 92 |
| 6 | Al Gore | @algore | Former Vice-President, US | 92 |
| 7 | Kumi Naidoo | @kuminaidoo | Activist. Humanist. Speaking truth to power. Greenpeace International Executive Director. Tweets by Kumi and his team. | 91 |
| 8 | Michael E.Mann | @MichaelEMann | Climate Scientist, Professor, and Director of Penn State Earth System Science Center. Author of Dire Predictions & The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars | 91 |
| 9 | Svein T Veitdal | @tveitdal | Tweeting Climate Change news and Climate Information English/Norwegian, IPCC, Director Klima 2020, former UN Director | 91 |
| 10 | Diane N56 | @DianeN56 | The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau | 91 |
| 11 | Richard Branson | @richardbranson | Tie-loathing adventurer and thrill seeker, who believes in turning ideas into reality. Otherwise known as Dr Yes at @virgin! | 91 |
| 12 | Andy Revkin | @Revkin | Pursuing progress on a finite planet at @dotearth and http://Pace.edu/Academy The rest? Family, friends, songs: http://j.mp/revkinmusic http://veryfinelines.com | 90 |
| 13 | Christine Milne | @senatormilne | Australian Greens Leader and Senator for Tasmania Authorised by Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 | 90 |
| 14 | David Roberts | @drvox | Seattleite transplanted from Tennessee; now blogging for Vox about energy politics. Climate hawk, deficit dove. | 90 |
| 15 | Caroline Lucas | @CarolineLucas | MP for Brighton Pavilion; Former Leader of the Green Party; Mum | 90 |
| 16 | Josh Fox | @gaslandmovie | Director of Gasland parts I and II, Artistic Director of International WOW Company. This twitter feed is mostly about Gasland. #banfracking #gorenewable | 90 |
| 17 | Ray Beckerman | @RayBeckerman | A NYC business lawyer, I tweet about law, social justice, human rights, nature, human & animal rights, the arts, ecology. | 90 |
| 18 | Calestous Juma | @calestous | Harvard Kennedy School Professor interested in science, technology and innovation for development. To follow is a privilege; to be followed is an honor. | 90 |
| 19 | Bill Gates | @BillGates | Sharing things I’m learning through my foundation work and other interests… | 90 |
| 20 | Dusty Gedge | @greenroofsuk | biodiversity professional, green roof campaigner/designer,public speaker, ecosystems services and green roof trainer – indigenous people + justice | 89 |
| 21 | Yeb Sa_o | @YebSano | Climate Change Commissioner; old soul; environmentalist; philosopher; father; nature lover; peace activist; revolutionary | 89 |
| 22 | James Murray | @James_BG | Editor of http://BusinessGreen.com – tweeting in a personal capacity, check out @BusinessGreen for the official feed | 89 |
| 23 | John Pratt | @Jackthelad1947 | Live simply so others can simply live. Climate change is a global emergency. Carbon pollution kills. Polluters should pay. Refugees need our support. | 89 |
| 24 | Kate Sheppard | @kate_sheppard | Reporter/enviro editor @HuffPostPol, VP of membership at @sejorg, and grad student at @AmericanU. Fan of the serial comma. | 89 |
| 25 | Julie Urlaub | @TaigaCompany | Sustainability & Social Media Consultant – Founder of Taiga Company – Speaker – Author of The Business Sustainability Handbook – Mountain bike racer. | 89 |
| 26 | Naomi Klein | @NaomiAKlein | They say I’m polarizing | 89 |
| 27 | Ivan Roberson | @ivanroberson | We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. Ancient Indian Proverb #UniteBlue | 89 |
| 28 | FrackingTestSubject | @gardencatlady | Artist, Pacifist, I would love to see a peaceful, clean earth, with respect for all living beings. | 89 |
| 29 | Green Bean | @iamgreenbean | Climate change activist, conservationist, progressive, gardener. – Don’t hate the media, become the media. – Jello Biafra | 89 |
| 30 | Sunny Hundal | @sunny_hundal | Writer; journalist; Guardian & Al-Jazeera contributor; lecturer at Kingston Uni; activist; environmentalist; feminist. Only tweet currents affairs. Get my book! | 89 |
| 31 | David Shiffman | @whysharksmatter | I am a marine biologist studying shark conservation and a blogger. I support science-based management and sustainable fishing, and do not support direct action. | 89 |
| 32 | Danielle Nierenberg | @DaniNierenberg | Co-Founder @Food_Tank. Email me: [email protected]. Weekly E-Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/srFyP | 89 |
| 33 | Michael Pollan | @michaelpollan | Author of Cooked; Food Rules; In Defense of Food; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; The Botany of Desire; A Place of My Own and Second Nature. | 89 |
| 34 | Mark Ruffalo | @markruffalo | Actor/Director/Hulk | 89 |
| 35 | Brent Toderian | @BrentToderian | City planner + urbanist, @TODUrbanWORKS; former Vancouver Chief Planner; President of @CanUrbanism; CBC Radio columnist; writer/speaker/teacher/city-maker. | 89 |
| 36 | Eric Holthaus | @EricHolthaus | America’s weather-predicting boyfriend’ @Awl – Born at 340.1 ppm – Meteorologist, nerding it up @slate & @vice | 89 |
| 37 | Igor Volsky | @igorvolsky | Managing Editor at @ThinkProgress. E-mail: [email protected] | 89 |
| 38 | Elizabeth May | @ElizabethMay | Leader of Green Party, MP – Saanich-Gulf Islands, activist, author & mother. Tweets are Elizabeth’s unless signed by Hill Staff – @MayElizabeth | 88 |
| 39 | Kees Van der Leun | @Sustainable2050 | 27 years of dedication to sustainable energy: consultant, bus dev, mgr, strategist, and climate hawk. COO @Ecofys. 100% renewable energy is possible in 2050! | 88 |
| 40 | Dominic Dyer | @domdyer70 | Writer, broadcaster, campaigner passionate about farming and food, wildlife and conservation and relations between America and Europe. | 88 |
| 41 | Damian Carrington | @dpcarrington | I’m head of environment at the Guardian | 88 |
| 42 | Christopher N. Fox | @ChristopherNFox | Husband/Dad. Work at Ceres on sustainability, climate change, clean energy – http://www.Ceres.org – @CeresNews @INCRnews @BICEPnews @GISRnews – tweets=mine | 88 |
| 43 | Peter Gleick | @PeterGleick | Pacific Institute; sustainability; climate/water scientist; member National Academy of Science, MacArthur Fellow; author of Bottled and Sold. Tweets are my own. | 88 |
| 44 | Juan Cole | @jricole | Public intellectual: Global affairs, Environment, Human Rights, Progressive Politics, Poetry & Literature, Pop Culture, Spirituality | 88 |
| 45 | Scott Ludlam | @SenatorLudlam | Authorised by Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 | 88 |
| 46 | Alice Stollmeyer | @StollmeyerEU | EU energy & climate policies | Advocating good governance, adequate measures & urgent action to protect Earth for present & future generations | 88 |
| 47 | Zaid Jilani | @ZaidJilani | Formerly @thinkprogress, @unitedrep, @boldprogressive. Now @SyracuseU grad student Love cats, the South, and cheesecake. Graduating June 2014! | 88 |
| 48 | Mike Bloomberg | @MikeBloomberg | Entrepreneur, Former Mayor of New York City, Philanthropist. | 88 |
| 49 | Leonardo DiCaprio | @LeoDicaprio | Actor and Environmentalist | 88 |
| 50 | Clara Jeffery | @ClaraJeffery | Co-editor of Mother Jones. Mom. One very tired lady. (Hats via @darth) | 88 |
| 51 | Richard Florida | @Richard_Florida | Director, @MartinProsperiT University of Toronto, Global Research Professor NYU, Editor at Large @AtlanticCities | 88 |
| 52 | Natalie Ben | @natalieben | Leader of Green Party of England and Wales | 87 |
| 53 | Connie Hedegaard | @CoHedegaard | I am former EU Commissioner for Climate Action | This feed is personally maintained by me | Everything here is quotable | | 87 |
| 54 | Margaret E. Atwood | @MargaretAtwood | Author | 87 |
| 55 | Laurel Davila | @laureldavilacpa | #Democrat #Feminist #Environmentalist #Humanist #LGBT Ally #CivilRights #Union #OFA #P2 #TopProg #UniteBlue #LibCrib #PDMFNB | 87 |
| 56 | Franke James | @frankejames | Blacklisted’ Artist/author. See Oh No Canada! in Washington DC and Do Not Talk about Climate Change in Calgary Alberta | 87 |
| 57 | Brad Plumer | @bradplumer | Reporter at the Washington Post. On the apocalypse beat, more or less. | 87 |
| 58 | Elon Musk | @elonmusk | Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity & PayPal | 87 |
| 59 | Jamie Henn | @Agent350 | http://350.org Co-founder and Communications Director | 87 |
| 60 | Mark Lynas | @mark_lynas | Environmentalist. Author of ‘Nuclear 2.0’, ‘Six Degrees’ & ‘The God Species’. Visiting Fellow at Cornell Uni. | 86 |
| 61 | Alex Steffen | @AlexSteffen | I try to live well, have fun and be a good ancestor. Planetary Futurist in Residence at @IDEO; @planetarystory; @C02zero; @worldchanging. I block rudeness. | 86 |
| 62 | Marc Gunther | @MarcGunther | writer on business and nonprofits, editor-at-large Guardian Sustainable Business US, blogger at http://nonprofitchronicles.com | 86 |
| 63 | Sarah Kliff | @sarahkliff | I write for Vox. Formerly: Washington Post, Politico, Newsweek and, back in the day, Student Life. Health-care nerd. [email protected] | 86 |
| 64 | JPascal van Ypersele | @JPvanYpersele | IPCC Vice-chair, physicist, UCLouvain Prof climatology, Royal Acad. Dedicated to policy-neutral, but relevant, assessments of climate issues to advance Humanity | 86 |
| 65 | Matthew Rimmer | @DrRimmer | IP Academic, ARC Future Fellow, @ANU_Law, ACIPA. #Copyright #Patent #TradeMark #FairIT4Oz #3DPrinting #Biotech #Medicine #Plainpacks #Cleantech #Climate #TPP | 86 |
| 66 | Andrew Leach | @andrew_leach | Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy @ualberta. Delightfully wonkish. Troll with cred. My writing is as dense as a bucket of bitumen. | 86 |
| 67 | Helen Clark | @HelenClarkUNDP | I’m Administrator @UNDP and former Prime Minister of #NewZealand, passionate about human #development world-wide. | 86 |
| 68 | Leo Hickman | @LeoHickman | Chief Adviser, Climate Change at @WWF_UK. Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?… | 86 |
| 69 | Adam Vaughn | @adamvaughn_uk | Editor of the Guardian’s environment site (@guardianeco). Running addict. Email – [email protected] | 86 |
| 70 | Kelly Rigg | @kellyrigg | Executive Director of GCCA (tck).I’ve been running campaigns for longer than I care to remember, many of them for Greenpeace. Tweets reflect personal views only | 86 |
| 71 | Greg Barker | @GregBarkerUK | Former MP, Minister for Energy and Climate Change & Prime Minister’s Climate Envoy but now Chair of London Sustainable Development Commisson | 86 |
| 72 | Christopher Mims | @mims | Technology columnist at @WSJ. Texan. | 86 |
| 73 | Adam Bandt | @adambandt | MP for Melbourne & Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens. Authorised by Adam Bandt, 280 King St, Melbourne, VIC 3000. | 86 |
| 74 | Dana Nuccitelli | @dana1981 | Environmental scientist and risk assessor by day. Climate blogger at http://SkepticalScience.com and The Guardian by night | 86 |
| 75 | Duncan Green | @fp2p | From Poverty to Power blog links and tweets from Oxfam’s Senior Strategic Adviser, Duncan Green. Usual disclaimers. | 86 |
| 76 | Peter Burton | @peteswildlife | all things nature and wildlife FB http://www.facebook.com/peter.burton.92351 | 86 |
| 77 | Jim Harris | @JimHarris | Former Leader, Green Party of Canada. International Bestselling Author & Keynote Speaker | 86 |
| 78 | Alice Bell | @alicebell | Writer and researcher. Science, technology and the environment is my usual beat. | 86 |
| 79 | Sebastien Duyck | @duycks | Researcher (Human Rights, #Arctic Governance Climate Negotiations) at @Arctic_Centre, project manager & blogger on #UNFCCC for @tcktcktck, life-long learner | 86 |
| 80 | Gavin Schmidt | @ClimateOfGavin | Climate scientist, occasional juggler, even more occasional author, curious about how the world works. | 86 |
| 81 | Ben Goldsmith | @BJGoldsmith | Founder of green investment business, http://www.whebgroup.com, and executive producer of http://www.fireinbabylon.com. | 85 |
| 82 | Mohamed Nasheed | @MohamedNasheed | Maldives’ first democratically-elected President, Amnesty Intl’s Prisoner of Conscience, UN’s Champion of the Earth, Newsweek’s World’s 10 Best Leaders | 85 |
| 83 | Thomas Mulcair | @ThomasMulcair | Leader of Canada’s New Democrats, Official Opposition http://www.npd.ca | 85 |
| 84 | Joss Garman | @jossgarman | Deputy Political Director of @greenpeaceuk, but tweeting here in personal capacity. #freethearctic30 | 85 |
| 85 | Jim McClelland | @SustMeme | Sustainable Futurist, Writer, Speaker. Ex-Editor & Founder sustain’. Clean + Green, CSR, Built Enviro, Smart Cities, Swarm Theory. http://sustmememagazine.com/ | 84 |
| 86 | Stephen Lacey | @Stphn_Lacey | Senior Editor at Greentech Media. Host of the Energy Gang podcast. Tweeting about energy, cleantech, the environment, media, politics and technology trends. (Oh, and writer of CK’s Tech Savvy column) | 84 |
| 87 | Tzeporah Berman | @Tzeporah | Campaigns for clean energy. Focused on tarsands & pipelines. Former co-director Climate Unit Greenpeace International. Co-founder ForestEthics. Author. Mom. | 84 |
| 88 | Jo Confino | @joconfino | Jo Confino is an executive editor of the Guardian, chairman and editorial director of Guardian Sustainable Business and advisor to Guardian Media Group. | 84 |
| 89 | Jeremy Leggett | @JeremyLeggett | Entrepreneur & writer on the energy crisis & climate change. I founded and chair Solarcentury & SolarAid so I could act as well as prattle. | 84 |
| 90 | Kate Galbraith | @KateGalbraith | Journalist @CALmatters. Alum of @TexasTribune, @nytimes, @TheEconomist. Co-author, The Great Texas Wind Rush. | 83 |
| 91 | Michael Liebreich | @MLeibreich | Founder & CEO, Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Non-exec, TfL. Professor, Imperial Coll. Entrepreneur, Olympic skier, Londoner, dad. All views personal. | 82 |
| 92 | Tom Steyer | @TomSteyer | California business leader. Philanthropist. Advanced energy advocate. Tartan tie enthusiast. | 82 |
| 93 | David Biello | @dbiello | History is a race between education and catastrophe: HG Wells. Me: Environment & Energy editor @sciam working on book about Anthropocene. All views my own | 82 |
| 94 | Roger Harrabin | @RHarrabin | BBC Enviornment and Energy Analyst. Also interested in transport, cities, risk, sustainability – whatever that means | 82 |
| 95 | Alok Jha | @alokjha | Science correspondent at the Guardian and BBC TV presenter. Currently stuck in Antartica with the Australaisan Antarctic Expedition 2013 for @GdnAntartica | 81 |
| 96 | Mark Tercek | @MarkTercek | President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. http://www.marktercek.com | 80 |
| 97 | John Elkington | @volansjohn | Co-founder, Environmental Data Services (’78), SustainAbility (’87) and Volans (’08). Author 18 books. Blogs @ Volans, CSRWire, Guardian, johnelkington dot com. | 78 |
| 98 | Steven Guilbeault | @s_guilbeault | Environmentalist, writer when i can find the time and very proud dad! | 78 |
| 99 | Peggy Liu | @shanghaipeggy | @JUCCCE Chair. TIME Mag Enviro Hero. WEF Young Global Leader. The Hillary Step. China Business News: Top Innovative Business Leaders. Advisor to M&S, HP, FTSE | 74 |
| 100 | Bob Inglis | @bobinglis | Executive Director of The Energy and Enterprise Initiative and @republicEn. Former Rep. from SC’s 4th District. #AreYouEn | 70 |
