Mr. Shepp is Founder and Editor in Chief of GreenMaven.com, the word's most comprehensive search engine that focuses on environmental and social values.  He is also the Founder and Principal of Earthsite.net, a website design, development, and hosting firm with a mission of building a global network of sustainable websites. 

Joey’s education has always been on the cutting edge of progressive thinking. In 2000 at the University of California Santa Cruz he received his BA in Ecological Design—seeing ecological systems as models and metaphors for sustainable design. Then, in 2005 he finished his MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, which studies a “triple-bottom-line” of people, planet, and profits.

Mr. Shepp’s professional consulting work in business, marketing and technology has included major players in the sustainable economy movement, including: Global Exchange, Coop America, Green Festivals, Fantastic Foods, Julia Butterfly Hill, GreenMBA, WholeLife, GreenHome.com, Care2.com, and more.

Joey's speaker career includes such events as: Green Festivals, Net Impact, Sustainable Enterprise Conference, Green Drinks, Hollywood goes Green, Green MBA, and many more.

Joey lives in the Bay Area with his wife Stacie and their cat Skunkie. There he studies and teaches Aikido, hikes in the surrounding mountains, loves organic food and drives a hybrid car.