Find a Fixer.
Our annual Grist 50 list recognizes people working on unique, real-world solutions for a more just, sustainable future — we call them “Fixers.” The hundreds of leaders in the Fixer network, representing nearly a decade of Grist 50 lists, include scientists, artists, policymakers, farmers, entrepreneurs, and more. Explore them all below, or search by city or focus area. Want to reach out to any of the Fixers you find here? Drop us a line at fix@grist.org.
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Aaron Fitzgerald
This founder wants to turn everyday products into permanent carbon sinks
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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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Alexia Leclercq
A syllabus for climate justice education
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Alison Smart
Her climate-literacy platform makes data accessible — and meaningful
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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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Alyssa Hartman
Strengthening farmer connections to revive America’s breadbasket
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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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Andrew Carter
All he’s saying is: Give mushrooms a chance
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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 Kinslow II
He’s building clean energy hubs at Black churches
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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 Barrientos
She’s leveraging a social-first audience to inspire climate action
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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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Azuré Kauikeolani Iversen-Keahi
Through gardens and balance sheets, they’re building resilient food hubs
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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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Bianca Graulau
This journalist brings Puerto Rico’s underreported stories to new platforms
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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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Bobuchi Ken-Opurum
Making clean energy accessible for Texas families
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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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Caitlin Nasema Cassidy
Through theater, she’s reigniting a sense of wonder
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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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Cody Finke
Laying a new foundation for cleaner construction
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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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Danny Cage
This teen is championing climate policy on his school board
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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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Elana Sulakshana
She’s making the fossil fuel industry uninsurable
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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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Esteban Gast
Rallying comedians for the climate cause
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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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Evette Ellis
She’s building the workforce to support EV infrastructure
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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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Franziska Trautmann
From a recycling problem, she’s creating a coastal-restoration solution
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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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Gwen Robbins Schug
Researching our climate past for lessons about our climate future
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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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Haunani Hi‘ilani Kane
This Hawaiian scientist is studying her home to help protect it
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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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Hila Perry
She raps about the climate in an Earth suit. Need we say more?
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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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Jake Lowe
He’s getting fossil fuel funding out of academia
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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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Jazmine Rogers
Through fashion and joy, she’s welcoming more people into the climate space
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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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Joanne Rodriguez
She’s harnessing fungi to tackle construction waste
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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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Jon Gray
Cofounder & CEO, Ghetto Gastro
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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 Aguon
He harnesses law and literature as tools for climate justice
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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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Justine Norton-Kertson
This magazine founder publishes stories of radical hope
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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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Kannan Thiruvengadam
Greening industrial Boston, one abandoned lot at a time
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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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Krystal Persaud
This toy designer demystifies home electrification by making it into a game
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L.A. Youth Groups
These teens sued for environmental justice.
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La’Meshia Whittington
This environmental justice advocate is protecting people from contamination
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
This artist captures the impacts of industrial pollution and political neglect
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Laura Luce
She’s setting the standard for truly green hydrogen
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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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Leo Goldsmith
Spotlighting unique climate risks — and solutions — for LGBTQ+ communities
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Leonard Diggs
Seeding a new generation of regenerative farm owners
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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 Bullock-Sieger
She sees the potential of solar — and she’s showing others the light
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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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Lylianna Allala
She’s bringing together people, policy, and nature
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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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Marqus Cole
He’s bringing climate values to his faith, and faith to the battle for climate justice
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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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Melanie Kirby
This beekeeper is blurring the lines of art and science
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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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Nancy Metzger-Carter
This high school teacher helped her students write climate policy. It passed.
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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 Horseherder
She’s fighting coal plants to protect the Navajo Nation’s water
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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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