Find a Fixer.
The Fixer network is composed of innovators working in climate, sustainability, and equity, as recognized each year by the Grist 50 list of emerging leaders.
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Aaron Lapointe
He’s tending the next crop of Native farmers
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Abiodun Henderson
Her secret sauce: giving youth a second chance
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Adair Mosley
He built the 21st century general store
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Adrianna Quintero
She's helping Latinos lead on climate issues
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Adrien Salazar
This New Yorker has a climate proposal you shouldn't refuse
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Ahmina Maxey
This organizer fights for safer waste disposal.
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Aidan Mouat
This chemist is mixing up a new solution to prevent food waste
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Akilah Sanders-Reed
She'll see your pipeline in court
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Alex Freid
He's helping universities move towards zero waste
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Alexandria Villaseñor
This youth activist wants the world to go on strike
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Alexia Akbay
She's working on a cure for the bovine belch
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Allison “AKU-MATU” Warden
As a rapper and playwright, she uses her voice to fight for Indigenous rights
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Allison Janae Hamilton
This artist brings the past into our climate future
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Alvaro S. Sanchez
No smartphone? No problem. He has a better idea for transit
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Amanda LaGrange
Her biz turns tech waste into good jobs
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Amara Ifeji
She gets youth outside — and mobilized on climate and justice
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Amee Raval
When climate disaster looms, her solution is community
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Amy Huang
She helps students become alt-meat leaders
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Andrea Vidaurre
In California, this activist pressures the massive logistics biz to get greener
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Ang Roell
This beekeeper is bringing hive mentality to climate activism
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Angel Garcia
This lawyer is helping conservatives join the clean energy fight
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Angel Hsu
She's connecting policymakers with the data they need
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Angelo Logan
This California mechanic is building coalitions around climate justice
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Anthony Myint
This chef-activist puts climate solutions on the menu
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Anthony Rogers-Wright
This activist has been racking up environmental and justice wins for decades
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Anthony Torres
This organizer is uniting millennials.
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Antonique Smith
This climate activist hits all the right notes
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Anyeley Hallová
This developer makes sustainability and equity the foundation of every project
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Arturo Massol-Deyá
He brings new energy to Puerto Rico
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Ashley Hand
She’s designing the city of the future
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Atianna J. Cordova
She's got designs on a greener, more equitable city
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Audrey Lee
This engineer has a new kind of power
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Avital Shavit
These transportation gurus coax Angelenos onto bikes
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
This marine biologist wants to connect you to the ocean
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Ayanna Pressley
She's living out her destiny as a politician making change
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Beka Economopoulos
This artist’s latest work: getting Big Oil out of museums
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Bekah Hinojosa
In coastal Texas, she stands up to Big Gas — and the world’s biggest rockets
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Ben Hartman
This farmer champions efficiency.
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Benji Backer
This young Republican envisions a Green Old Party
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Benny Starr
This hip-hop artist will help you face the music
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BJ Johnson
Cleaner diesel trucks? Pretty clutch, he says.
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Bob Carswell
His recycling business keeps an old industry thriving — and tons of fabric out of the landfill
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Brandon Ballengée
He's got conservation science down to an art
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Brandon Dennison
In coal towns, he sees a new green future
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Brett Isaac
His solar plant will put power — and profits — in the hands of the Navajo Nation
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Brian Vadakin
In rural Ohio, he's growing a new green economy
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Brionté McCorkle
In Georgia, she puts energy into community organizing
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Cam Hardy
His destination: a better transit system for Cincinnati
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Cameron Russell
She's on a mission to make activism fashionable
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Camila Thorndike
This activist wants carbon polluters to pay.
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Camille Delebecque
He wants to use fermentation to feed the world
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Cannupa Hanska Luger
This artist is sculpting a future you’d want to live in
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Carla Gautier Castro
Her shipping-container homes are affordable, disaster-resistant — and surprisingly comfy
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Carlos Curbelo
This politician reps bipartisan climate action
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Caroline Spears
She's bringing climate to a political platform near you
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Catherine Flowers
This civil rights activist takes on the South's sewage problem
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Catrina Rorke
Want to burn fossil fuels? She’ll make you pay
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Ceci Pineda
Their solution to Big Apple food waste is rotten to the core
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Cecilia Aldarondo
After Hurricane Maria, she kept the cameras rolling
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Chadwick Manning
This CEO will make your house into a giant battery
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Chandra Farley
In the South, she brings power to the people
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Cheetie Kumar
This musician-chef is remixing Southern food
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Chloe Maxmin
This politician’s Maine goal: More green jobs
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Chris Castro
This sustainability director drives change in Orlando
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Chris Schell
He’s documenting the wild side of urban inequality
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Christine Nieves
She's building an oasis in post-Maria Puerto Rico
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Christoph Krumm
He's washing the oil out of laundry soap
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Ciara Imani May
She makes hair extensions that won’t wreck the planet — or your scalp
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CJ Goulding
He turns kids into natural leaders
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Conlan O’Leary
He's building a one-stop shop for solar power
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Corina Newsome
For her, a more inclusive green movement is just natural
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Courtney Williams
She's a spokes-person for more inclusive transit
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Craig Santos Perez
Climate injustice? He's sonnet.
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Cristina Garcia
This New Yorker is engineering diversity into green jobs
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Cynthia Graber
This podcast host is bringing us closer to the food we eat
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Cynthia Malone
This scientist brings social justice to her field.
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Dallas Goldtooth
This comedian spotlights Indigenous rights
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Dan Conant
He sees a solar future in Appalachia
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Dan Firger
He’s making sure that we’ll always have Paris
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Dan Widmaier
This inventor is changing leather patterns
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Dana Clare Redden
She’s shedding light on energy equity
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Dana Tizya-Tramm
This young chief knows: A greener future depends on learning from the past
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Daniel Blackman
There's a greener Georgia on his mind
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Daphany Rose Sanchez
She brings solar to public housing
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David Bancroft
This restauranteur is celebrating local farmers in the South
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David Hochschild
This policy wonk shows state leadership on solar.
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Davida Herzl
This startup founder built a Fitbit for the planet.
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Dawn Lippert
She finds funds for sustainable startups
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DeAndrea Salvador
In North Carolina, this new state senator has her sights set on equity
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Deborah Navarro
She's hyper-focused on the future of transit
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Deepti Singh
The weather's getting wilder. She'll tell you why
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Delaney Reynolds
This teen just might keep Miami from drowning
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Desirée Williams-Rajee
Her vision: a government you could actually love
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Devita Davison
She brings Detroit's food entrepreneurs to the table
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Don Hankins
This scientist brings Indigenous land practices to the mainstream
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Donnel Baird
This Brooklynite retrofits cities
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Donovan Richards
This politician is fighting for a neglected district
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Earyn McGee
She’ll help you #FindThatLizard — and a career in STEM
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Eduardo Rivera
He's planting peppers — and a new future for Latino growers
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Elango Thevar
He's using AI to solve the nation's water woes
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Elena Foukes
This entrepreneur helps the solar industry compete
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Eliza Nemser
Good climate policy comes from good climate politicians. Her volunteers make it happen.
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Elsa Mengistu
She gives youth a voice — and makes sure we hear it
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Emily Darchuk
This entrepreneur knows: Where there's a still there's a whey
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Emily Graslie
Her videos provide a front seat to the natural world
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Emily Kirsch
This entrepreneur is getting funding to climate-tech startups
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Emily Rice
She’s building a more efficient Midwest
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Emmanuel Pratt
He's breaking ground on Chicago’s South Side
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Erick Rodriguez
This architect designs better neighborhoods.
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza
This playwright puts justice in the spotlight
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Erika Symmonds
This professional trains people for solar jobs.
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Etosha Cave
She's got the tech to recycle your emissions
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Evan Weber
This young climate activist is demanding more.
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Evelyn Valdez-Ward
This scientist is working on a new formula for justice
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Faith E. Briggs
This filmmaker puts equity into the picture
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Favianna Rodriguez
She makes resistance a work of art
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Flora Lichtman
Her podcast illuminates stories of climate change in the modern world
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Francesca Chaney
She feeds the people at her vegan café
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Fred Iutzi
His crops could feed us all
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Gabe Vasquez
For this local official, conservation is a family tradition
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Gaurab Basu
For this doc, better health begins with a better planet
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Gavin McCormick
This founder empowers people to choose renewables.
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Geoffrey Supran
This activist scientist turns up the heat on Big Oil
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George Reistad
This civil servant cooks up smart food policy.
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Gia Schneider
Hydropower is clean, but it can hurt rivers. She built a better turbine.
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Gilbert Campbell
This entrepreneur is diversifying cleantech
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Gloria Walton
In South Central, she’s shaping policy for the people
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Graham Christensen
In Nebraska, he switches farms to solar
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Grant Canary
His drone startup seeds a new future for forests
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Gregg Treinish
This adventurer wants you to take a hike — for data
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Haley Russell
You eat sustainably. Thanks to her, your dog can too.
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Hari Pulapaka
This chef takes a kitchen sink approach to food waste.
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Harleen Marwah
This med student brings climate into the classroom
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Heather Box
She's teaching leaders how to tell their own stories
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Heather Hochrein
EV need some juice? She's leading the charge.
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Heather McGhee
She's crafting an equitable vision for the clean-energy economy
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Heber Brown III
This pastor is putting the produce of Black farmers into the hands of Black churchgoers
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Hillel Echo-Hawk
This chef’s dinners will also feed your mind
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Ian Skor
He’s planting a new idea on solar fields
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Ilan Gur
He'll help you build a startup for that
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Imani Jacqueline Brown
This artist wants to take oil out of the picture
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Irving Fain
This farmer uses AI for efficiency
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Isaias Hernandez
This Insta sensation answers all your climate questions
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Jackie Weidman
This strategist trains clean energy leaders.
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Jackson Koeppel
His group lights up the streets with the sun
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Jade Begay
She’s writing the playbook for Indigenous climate activism
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Jahi Wise
From the White House, he puts people at the heart of climate policy
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Jalonne L. White-Newsome
She made sure communities of color were part of Obama's Clean Power Plan
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Jamie Cole
In North Carolina, she'll help you change the law
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Jamie Henn
He calls out oil industry propaganda — and gets other creatives to join him
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Jane Zelikova
She'll introduce you to a woman scientist — or 500
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Janelle Heslop
Going green is her business
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Jasmina Aganovic
This entrepreneur is bringing microbes back to our skincare routines
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Jason Chow
He’s got a beef with Hawaii’s ranching system — and he’s bringing the cows back home
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Jason Gates
His smart dumpsters take the guesswork out of garbage
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Jeanalee Obergfell
Her future L.A. has more housing, less driving
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Jenette Ashtekar
This data-digging soil scientist has all the dirt on carbon capture
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Jenna Nicholas
She has a capital idea: linking investors and communities
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Jenny Bruso
This outdoor influencer blazes trails for everybody
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Jeremy Bailenson
He's got the gear to show you the future
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Jeremy Hoffman
This scientist wants to improv the world
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Jerome Foster II
This activist will get a million young people to the polls
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Jihan Gearon
She's helping introduce renewable energy systems to the Navajo Nation
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Jill Kubit
This mother brings the future into the present.
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John Bourne
This CEO provides clean energy for any budget
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John R. Seydel III
He's building a new team of Planeteers
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José González
He's connecting Latinos to the outdoors
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José Gurrola
This mayor is pushing back Big Frack. He's 24.
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Joseph Kunkel
He has a blueprint for native communities
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Josh Healey
He's got jokes for a warming world
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Joshua Apte
He's mapping a route to better air
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Josué Rivas
Didn't make it to Standing Rock? He'll take you there
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Julia Kumari Drapkin
She wants to hear your local climate story
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Julia Marsh
For this entrepreneur, building a better plastic bag starts with seaweed
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Julia Stewart
She's helping startups survive in post-Katrina New Orleans
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Julian Brave NoiseCat
This writer explains the past — and heralds a better future
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Julian Mocine-McQueen
He's teaching leaders how to tell their own stories
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Juliana Pino
This tough negotiator pushes for justice
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Julien Terrell
This organizer is connecting local youth to the land
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Justin Hegarty
He paves the way for cleaner water
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Justin Knopf
This young farmer is saving soil.
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Kait Parker
This weather forecaster shames deniers.
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Kandi Mossett White
This Indigenous activist is helping women lead the conversation
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Karina Castillo
This climate organizer works on the front lines in Miami.
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Katherine Miller
This food advocate coaches up chefs.
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Katherine Sizov
She’s got a fresh solution to a chilling problem
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Katherine Wells
Her podcast illuminates stories of climate change in the modern world
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Katie Button
Her restaurants lead the way in food sustainability
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Katie Hinde
She's researching how milk can give everyone a fair start in life
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Kelly Leilani Main
Cofounder & Executive Director, Buy-In Community Planning
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Kerene Tayloe
In the capital, she speaks for Harlem
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Kevin Noertker
His electric planes could really take off
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Khanh Pham
This state rep (and former organizer) connects climate to community
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Ki'Amber Thompson
For kids with incarcerated parents, she has a wild solution
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Kiliii Yüyan
His photos show you life lived on the land — and introduce you to the people protecting it
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Kimberlie Le
Forget plant-based meat. She wants to put fungus among us.
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Kristy Drutman
On social media, she’s got real talk about climate and diversity
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L.A. Youth Groups
These teens sued for environmental justice.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
This artist captures the impacts of industrial pollution and political neglect
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Laura Zapata
She does deals to build clean energy for the dirtiest grids
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Lauren McLean
This councilwoman keeps Boise booming.
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Layel Camargo
They’ll show you how to be more #climatewoke
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Leah Lizarondo
With her app, you too can become a food – and climate – hero
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Leah Penniman
This farmer is seeding social change
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Leah Stokes
This prof will school you on climate change
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Leah Thomas
She's the reason ‘intersectional environmentalism’ is trending
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Lilian Liu
For her, sustainability is totally in fashion
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Lily Kwong
She's greening the concrete jungle
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Linda Cheung
This Miami artist paints a picture of the future
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Liz Carlisle
In farm country, she's finding common ground
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Liz Specht
This scientist connects investors to new food tech.
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Logan Atkinson Burke
She's making a play for affordable energy
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Lucky Tran
This biologist is bringing activism to academia
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Lucy Holtsnider
She sailed a 'Climate Odyssey' to document the work of coastal communities
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Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz
His research gets to the root of the problem on Puerto Rico’s farms
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Lydia Avila
She shifts the power to young people
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Lyla June
This musician’s climate plan hits just the right notes
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Maeve Higgins
No joke: She knows the climate crisis is no time for despair
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Maggie Thomas
She's greening up the White House
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Mai Nguyen
She knows farming isn't just for white dudes
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Marccus Hendricks
He's paving the way to equitable infrastructure reform
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Marcela Mulholland
She turns data into power, providing progressives with the info they need
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Marcelo Bonta
He's bringing diversity and inclusion to environmental funding
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Marcus Briggs-Cloud
He knows it takes a village to preserve a culture
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Mariah Gladstone
She'll teach you to cook bison lasagna
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Marianne Cufone
This urban farmer grows in tight spaces
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Mark Jacobson
This professor is turning global warming research into policy
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Mark Magaña
This advocate connects green Latinos
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Mark Watson
He’s building capital for farmers of color
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Mary Berry
She's helping keep farmers in business through crop pricing
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Matanya Horowitz
His robot army turns trash into cash
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Mateo Jaramillo
His new batteries could really have staying power
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Maxine Bédat
Her climate conscious clothing is creating a new model for fashion
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Maya Lilly
This producer puts climate stories in the limelight
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Megan O’Connor
An electric world will need more metals. Her tech can recycle them.
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Melanie Allen
Her plans for climate justice are on the money
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Melinda Hanson
She has electrifying ideas for the future of transpo
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Melissa Freelend
In Nebraska, she's got the power
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Michael Ford
He remixes cool beats for new buildings
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Michael Hennessy
He’s got bright lights for the big city
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Michael Malcom
This pastor keeps the faith with climate justice
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Michael Mazourek
He's inventing new breeds of flavorful vegetables adapted for resiliency
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Michael Robinson
It started with $1,500 and a bike trailer. Now, his compost biz is part of a co-op movement.
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Mika Tosca
She left the lab to teach the fine art of science
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Mike Lewis
This farmer gives vets a chance to grow
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Missy Stults
She turns the global challenge of climate into a local problem to solve
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Molly Burhans
She's got the Catholic Church all mapped out
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Moñeka De Oro
She’s bringing climate solutions and a just transition to the Pacific Islands
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Murrawah Johnson
This Indigenous activist is fighting to preserve her land — and her way of life
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Nakisa Glover
She's designing a more just world
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Nanette Barragán
This politician fights for polluted communities
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Nathan Proctor
He wants to help you fix your broken tech
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Nathaniel Smith
He sets a new agenda for the old South
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Nathaniel Stinnett
This campaign strategist is getting environmentalists out to the polls
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Neftalí Durán
This cook has an appetite for justice
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Nia Martin-Robinson
This longtime activist helped make climate justice part of the environmental movement
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Nick Tilsen
After the protest, he's building the movement
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Nicky Sheats
This lawyer connects justice and the environment.
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Nicola Twilley
This podcast host is bringing us closer to the food we eat
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Nicole Bassett
This clothing expert revives dead threads
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Nicole Sitaraman
She cuts the red tape for clean energy
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Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
This reporter’s got the scoop on environmental justice in Detroit
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Noah Oppenheim
He's got Big Oil in a pinch
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Nona Yehia
She's growing fresh produce year-round in wintry Wyoming
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Nsombi A. Lambright
She brings power to the people in Mississippi
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Nyiesha Mallett
She’s schooling her peers on environmental justice
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Oday Salim
From Iraq to Michigan, he's working for justice
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Olatunji Oboi Reed
He wants all of us to go for a bike ride
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Olivia Watkins
Her fund seeds new growth for Black farmers
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Omar Hakeem
His designs offer shelter from the storm
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Page Atcheson
This activist wants carbon polluters to pay.
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Pamela Ronald
This professor developed a new form of rice that can survive flooding
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Pandora Thomas
She’s helping diverse communities reclaim their connection to the land
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Payton Wilkins
He brings labor rights to the climate fight
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Penny McBride
She's growing fresh produce year-round in wintry Wyoming
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Peter Kalmus
He’ll show you how to cut your carbon
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Peter Malinowski
He wants to plant 1 billion oysters in New York City
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Phil Taylor
He’s planting the seeds for a new farming future
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Pita Juarez
Her films will show you the real stories of environmental justice
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Ploy Achakulwisut
She's got climate activism down to a science
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Rahawa Haile
A writer tells the story of being black outdoors
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Rahwa Ghirmatzion
This housing advocate is rebuilding Buffalo
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Raj Karmani
This developer built an app for food waste.
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Rebecca Burgess
This innovator is stitching together a clothing movement
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Rev. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
This reverend makes the case: Climate is an evangelical issue
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Rev. Mariama White-Hammond
She spreads the green gospel
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Rey León
He shines the LED light on his tiny farm town
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
She'll make you a Green New Deal
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Rialin Flores
In red Idaho, she brings out the green vote
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Ritchie Torres
This New Yorker champions affordable housing
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Rob Hogg
The Heartland Climate Hawk
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Rob Thomas
He helps climate professionals become climate candidates
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Robin Amer
Her podcast talks trash — and listeners love it
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Rollie Williams
What’s so funny about the climate crisis? Just ask him.
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Ron Nirenberg
He’s turning this red state a little greener
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Rubina Ghazarian
These transportation gurus coax Angelenos onto bikes
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Rudy Zamora
He's a breath of fresh air for Nevada
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Ryan Wallace
He’s solar-powering the American Dream
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Sagatom Saha
He’s helping the U.S. become a world leader in the clean energy revolution
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Sam Arons
He's building the transportation infrastructure of the future
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Samuel Rubin
He’s helping Hollywood flip the script on climate change
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Sana Amanat
This comic book writer is changing the game for representation in superhero stories
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Sarah Carlson
She's planting the seeds for a rural renaissance
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Sean A. Watkins
This storyteller puts people first
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Sean Barrett
He's bringing sustainable fishing to the restaurant industry
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Shane Bernardo
In Detroit, he’s serving up culture and justice
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Shanelle Smith Whigham
Greening Ohio? For her, it's a walk in the park
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Shantha Ready Alonso
She has the faith to tackle climate change
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Shawna Meyer
This architect has plans to keep cities afloat
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Shay Sethi
For him, recycling is a shirt thing
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Shayle Matsuda
His research supports coral — and his activism supports other scientists
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Shyla Raghav
To her, climate action is non-negotiable
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Sophia Mendelsohn
This airline exec is greening travel.
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Sophie Purdom
She’s got a capital idea: more investments in climate solutions
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Stacy H. Smedley
This architect drafts plans for a more sustainable world
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Steph Speirs
This CEO plants community solar gardens.
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Stephanie Benedetto
This scrappy entrepreneur is trimming textile waste
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Sudha Nandagopal
She's helping communities of color lead on Seattle's climate solutions
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
This playwright puts Big Oil on center stage
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Tara Houska
This lawyer stands with indigenous activists.
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Tara Pham
Her data makes streets safer for bikers and walkers
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Ted Lieu
This California congressman is fighting for his climate-affected district
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Thanushka Yakupitiyage
She brings migrant might to the climate fight
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Tiffani Ashley Bell
She's using coding to help Detroit residents stay in their homes
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Tim Latimer
His plans for geothermal energy are really heating up
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Tim Ma
His kitchen really watches its waste
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Timothy Barat
His data can stop powerline outages and wildfires before they start
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Todd Nedwick
He wants to trim your energy bill
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Tony Bova
This chemist has the solution for a more fantastic plastic
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Tony Reames
He flips the switch on energy deserts
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Trenton Allen
He's banking on a renewable future
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Trip Jennings
This filmmaker documents the environment, and fights for it himself
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Trisha Shrum
This mother brings the future into the present.
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Tyler Sit
This pastor is bringing racial and environmental justice to church
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Ugbaad Kosar
This policy expert brings justice to carbon drawdown
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Uma Valeti
This entrepreneur is making a better burger.
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Valencia Gunder
In Miami, this activist will help you weather the storm
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Varshini Prakash
This organizer gives voice to a rising movement
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Varun Sivaram
This physicist is shaping energy policy.
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Vic Shao
His plans for the future are downright electric
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Vien Truong
She's working to bring money back to communities most impacted by pollution
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Vince Romanin
With this invention, he’s keeping it chill
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Virginia Emery
She’s bugging out over the future of livestock
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Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru
She's shaping food policy — and she's still an undergrad
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Wes Gobar
His network of Black environmentalists is connecting a community
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Willa Johnson
She shines the spotlight on Appalachia
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Xavier Cortada
This Miami artist brings sea-level rise to your front yard
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
This teenager gives the youngest generation a voice.
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Yassamin Ansari
When she's at the talks, nations and corporations agree
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Yeou-Rong Jih
Greener, more equitable cities? Her maps will show us the way.
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Yorman Nuñez
This Bronx community organizer is spreading the wealth.
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Yoshi Silverstein
Jewish environmentalism finds a home at his new nonprofit
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Yudith Nieto
Ask her to take you on a toxic tour of the Gulf
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Zelalem Adefris
She helps Floridians keep their heads above water
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Zion Klos
He sailed a 'Climate Odyssey' to document the work of coastal communities