Back in February we told you about our sponsorship of Leilani Munter, a green racecar driver. An oxymoron? No, Leilani spreads the message of environmental stewardship to over 75 million race fans. She was also just featured as a Green Hero.

Check out the Green Heroes webisode featuring Leilani.

If you haven’t heard, groSolar sponsored NASCAR driver, Leilani Munter for a race in Daytona this past Saturday. Yep, a solar company sponsoring a race car driver. Seems kind of off-brand, right? Actually, it allows us to send an environmental message to over 75 million race fans.

“We all have carbon footprints,” says Leilani Münter, one of racing’s few female drivers. “It’s more obvious for me because you can turn on the TV and actually see me burning my fossil fuels. ‘There’s Leilani being the hypocrite, taking laps around the track!’ But everybody takes a car to work or gets on a plane. It’s impossible to be perfect. It’s totally about doing what you can.” Which is not easy when you’re in NASCAR. After watching An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, Münter decided to make her environmental passion public. “It was not taken well,” she told me. “I had marketing people tell me, ‘You need to just shut up and drive your race car.’”

Find out more about Leilani at CarbonFreeGirl.com.