Seth Leitman, Neighbor

My name is Seth Leitman and I am THE GREEN LIVING GUY because I love green living.  As The Green Living Guy, I provide Information and tips on Green Living; as well as Green Living News, Green Lighting, the Green Guru Guides (my book series) with McGraw-Hill Professional, Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, my Sustainability and Eco Consulting Services And More.  

I’ve been interviewed and asked for my opinion on green topics at (for example) the NY Channel 11 WPIX, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Mother Earth News, Fox Business News, The Atlantic, Treehugger and The Huffington Post.

Author and Editor

I am also the Author and Editor of the following green living books with TAB McGraw-Hill.  Besides Build Your Own Electric Vehicle are part of the Green Guru Guides series that I created and am Consulting Editor. These books are:

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Bob Brant and Seth Leitman, 2nd and 3rd Editions

Build Your Own Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicleby Seth Leitman

Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle by Carl Vogel

Green Lighting by Seth Leitman, Brian Clark Howard and Bill Brinsky

Solar Power For Your Home by David Findley

Renewable Energies For Your Home by Russel Gehrke

Do-it-Yourself Home Energy Audits by David Findley

Build Your Own Small Wind Power System!!

and more green living books to follow.

These green living guides focus on implementing environmentally friendly technologies and making them work for you.

How I have Helped New York and The World Go Green

I worked for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) on marketing and managing alternative-fueled vehicle (AFV) and electric vehicle (EV) programs throughout the State of New York.  At NYSERDA, I was the Project Manager for the Clean Fuel Bus Program that funded over $100 million to the incremental cost of alternative fueled vehicle buses.I learned about green buildings and indoor air quality in schools and how it children and asthma rates; having an indirect impact on environmental justice. Then I knew: school buses and the school own energy consumption affect the bottom line, indoor air quality for the students and pollution from power plants.

In 2000, I worked for the New York Power Authority (NYPA) where he created the NYPA/TH!NK Clean Commute Program which leased 100 electric vehicles in the New York Metropolitan Area. This program was covered by USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times, CNN, Good Morning America, the Today Show, and others. This is the largest electric vehicle station car program worldwide. While at NYPA, Seth also worked on the donation program for low speed vehicles.I also worked with the two large low speed electric vehicle companies in the United States.  They were Global Electric Motor Cars (GEM) and the TH!NK Neighbor (previously from Ford Motor Company) all across New York State. From Brooklyn to Western New York we placed thousands of these cars to spread them around for people to see and appreciate electric cars (in one shape or form).

While at NYPA, I even had the pleasure to work with New York City of Transportation staff on alternative fueled vehicles to help and ensure that the New York Power Authority could change all the traffic lights from incandescent to light emitting diodes (LED). 

Green Celebrity, Reporter, Eco Consultant and Energy Efficiency Advisor

I've always thought there was more to what I was trying to convey to the end users of the green technologies, energy efficient products or simple things that being green.  It’s everything we do can and should be green for green living sake.

Now I am Managing Member for a consulting company: ETS Energy Store, LLC to help people, companies and government on how to go green and live greener and provide green living opportunities. 

My company helps clients ask a third party about their audits, lighting change-outs or whatever they are working on to Go Green, Save Green and Learn To Love Green Living.