Martin Kearns, Founder/President Martin Kearns has been Co-Founder and Executive Director of Green Media Toolshed (GMT) since May of 2000 and writes one of the leading blogs on network-centric advocacy.

GMT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the environmental movement communicate more effectively by offering a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services. GMT offers the technology groups need along with the training and support to develop strategies that leverage those tools for the benefit of member organizations and coalitions.

Kearns founded the Netcentric Campaigns division of Green Media Toolshed to bridge his interest in networks and network theory to the progressive advocacy and campaigning space.

Previously, Kearns founded the Georgia River Network, a state based conservation group solely dedicated to the conservation of Georgia's rivers. Kearns also served as Executive Director of the Georgia River Network. He worked for three years for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Kearns has been political fundraiser for candidates for the US House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Kearns holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from LeMoyne College and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from Yale. He spent two years in Kingston, Jamaica as a Jesuit International Volunteer teaching computers at St. George's College and working with inner city youth. He is a runner, hiker and fisherman. He and his wife Maryann are raising their three children in Maryland.