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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Abrah Dresdale
Cofounder and Educator, Regenerate Change
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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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Ajulo Othow
She’s bringing the benefits of solar to Black farmers in the South
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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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Alicia Brown
Her work is uniting Georgians behind an energy transition
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Alisa Petrosova
She’s bringing climate research into Hollywood stories
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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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Amos White
He wants to plant 100K trees to transform frontline neighborhoods
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Amy Bowers Cordalis
For this tribal lawyer, the nation’s largest dam removal is just the beginning
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Amy Huang
She helps students become alt-meat leaders
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Amy Larkin
She’s setting much-needed standards for reusable packaging
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Andrea Vidaurre
In California, this activist pressures the massive logistics biz to get greener
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Andrew Butts
His database is demystifying green energy for average consumers
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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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Annette Kleiser
Her bee vaccine promises to protect pollinators
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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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Apolo J. Cátala
Manager of the O.A.S.I.S on Ballou Avenue Urban Farm and Environmental Justice Coordinator, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
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Ariel Rodríguez
This Miami meteorologist is weaving climate into the weather forecast
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Arturo Massol-Deyá
He brings new energy to Puerto Rico
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Asegun Henry
He put the sun in a box
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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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Audrey Schulman
Coexecutive Director, HEET
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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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Benjamin Huynh
With AI-inspired research, he’s driving attention for environmental injustices
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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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Bill Pluecker
He’s on a mission to protect farmers from ‘forever chemicals’
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Birdie Sam
They’re calling out fossil fuel execs on social media
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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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Breene Murphy
By changing the 401(k) game, he’s helping people make their money work for the planet
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Brendan Hermalyn
He’s building a ‘check engine light’ for efficient buildings
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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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Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
She’s empowering frontline communities to lead their own solutions
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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 Borelli
Director of Exhibitions, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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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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David Meshoulam
Executive Director, Speak for the Trees
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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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Deenaalee Chase-Hodgdon
This Alaskan fisher has a vision for Indigenous food security
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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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Desa Van Laarhoven
Founder and Executive Director, Round the Bend Farm
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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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Duncan Meisel
He’s cutting ties between advertisers and fossil fuel companies
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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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Elena Mihaly
Vice President and State Director, Conservation Law Foundation
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Elise Joshi
She’s helping Gen-Z fight for change on their own terms
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Eliza Evans
This artist is fighting fracking by uniting an untapped community
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Eliza Nemser
Good climate policy comes from good climate politicians. Her volunteers make it happen.
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Elizabeth Hansen
This anesthesiologist is targeting hospitals’ surprising source of emissions
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Elizabeth Pickett
When wildfire struck Hawai‘i, she knew the path forward
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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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Erin Allgood
Founder and Owner, Social Impact Strategist, Allgood Strategies LLC
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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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Henry Herndon
Director of Member Services, Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire
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Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa
He’s breaking down language barriers for climate information
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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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Jameelah Muhammad
Deputy Director, Outdoors for All Campaign, Sierra Club
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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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Jay Friedlander
Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business, College of the Atlantic
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Jazmine Rogers
Through fashion and joy, she’s welcoming more people into the climate space
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Jean Su
This lawyer is pushing the US government to advance energy justice
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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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Jennifer Wilcox
This professor helped the DOE move big money to big ideas
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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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Jessica Dandridge-Smith
This organizer has a vision for the future of water justice in New Orleans
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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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Joel Clement
Senior Program Officer, Climate Action, The Lemelson Foundation
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John Bourne
This CEO provides clean energy for any budget
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John Marshall
This marketing expert is selling the public on climate action
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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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Jonathan Wilker
This chemist is putting some mussel behind sustainable adhesives
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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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Kate Stephenson
Cofounder/Director of Operations and Finance, HELM Construction Solutions
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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 Flanagan
Her company’s mobile nanogrids supply clean energy after disasters
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Lauren McLean
This councilwoman keeps Boise booming.
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Lauren Salz
This founder helps contractors access clean energy rebates
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Laurie Barr
She’s hunting down dangerous abandoned oil and gas wells
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Layel Camargo
They’ll show you how to be more #climatewoke
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Leah Bamberger
Executive Director of the Climate Justice and Sustainability Hub, Northeastern University
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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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Lucas St. Clair
President, Elliotsville Foundation, Inc.
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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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Maria Virginia Olano
Canary Media
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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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Mea Johnson
Environmental Justice Community Organizer, North American Indian Center of Boston
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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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Mike McCarthy
This data scientist is mapping the sprawling world of warehouses
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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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Molly Kawahata
She uses hope to bring more people into the climate camp — and to the polls
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Moñeka De Oro
She’s bringing climate solutions and a just transition to the Pacific Islands
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Monica Huertas
She’s the port authority for a community without an advocate