Getting Clean and Going Green

This article was first published as “From Sex.com to Clean and Green: ‘Unintentional Pornographer’ Gary Kremen Talks About Philanthropy, Judaism and U.S.-Israel Relations” in the Forward.

Gary Kremen with his infant son, Isaac.

Clean-tech entrepreneur and Jewish philanthropist Gary Kremen walked through his home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., on a recent afternoon. He held his 5-month-old son, Isaac, in one arm and gestured with the other arm to the environmentally friendly baby paraphernalia.

Today, Kremen’s home is filled with diapers, bottles and teething rings. Not long ago, however, the accoutrements of his life were decidedly more adult. Until 2006, Kremen, 47, was the owner and operator of the adult website Sex.com, active in the pornography industry, and dealing with a major drug habit.

Click here to learn more about Kremen’s story and read an interview with him.

 

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