Raising Food in the City
Will Allen
Founder, Growing Power Community Food Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“Growing food is powerful. It can change the world.”
Discovering a New Way to Clean Polluted Water
Kelydra Welcker
Student Chemist, Environmental Scientist, and Inventor, Parkersburg, West Virginia
“Technology helped create our problems, and technology can help solve them.”
Turning Waste into Good Business and Good Jobs
Omar Freilla
Founder, ReBuilders Source, The South Bronx, New York City
“If you have a use for something, it’s no longer waste.”
Bringing Solar Power to Indian Country
Debby Tewa
Solar Electrician, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona
“With solar energy, we can be independent.”
Speaking Out to a Big Oil Company
Margie Richard
Activist and Former Middle School Teacher, Old Diamond, Louisiana
“If you don't tell people the problem, how can you expect them to solve it?”
Inventing Eco-Machines
John Todd
Inventor, Engineer, and Designer, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
“We must work with nature instead of fighting it.”
Recycling Electronic Waste
Alex Lin
Teenager Who Helped Write Rhode Island’s E-Waste Law, Westerly, Rhode Island
“Today’s technology should not become tomorrow’s toxic trash.”
Saving West Virginia's Oldest Mountains
Judy Bonds
Community Activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, West Virginia
“It makes a lot more sense to build windmills than to blow up mountains.”
Fighting the Enemies of the Environment
El Hijo Del Santo
Champion Masked Wrestler, Mexico City, Mexico
“I need all the children to be on my team.”
Protecting the Louisiana Wetlands
Barry Guillot
Middle School Science Teacher, Destrehan, Louisiana
“I want all my students to feel like heroes.”
Saving the Porcupine River Caribou
Sarah James
Spokesperson, Gwich’in Indian People of Alaska and Canada, Arctic Village, Alaska
“If you drill for oil here, you will be drilling into the heart of our people.”
Safeguarding the California Coast
Erica Fernandez
Student and Environmental Activist, Oxnard, California
“We are the future. The future is ours.”
