The Change Gang: people making waves
In This Series
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Tanya Fields: Breaking locks and planting seeds in the South Bronx
Empty lots plus a passion for nutrition: How a food-stamp-reliant mother of four got into the food-justice movement.
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Betsy MacLean: Community development as public health
Can sustainability make sense in the inner city? Sure -- if you talk about saving money instead of saving polar bears.
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Kate Zidar: A sewershed grows in Brooklyn
Salvaging a notoriously polluted urban creek takes nerds of steel.
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Skate punk gets business degree to sharpen his activist chops
Erick Boustead first brewed his heady mixture of music, organizing, and online media to fund a skate park.
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Max Cadji: Worms against the philanthro-pimps!
A food activist brings lessons learned in the Peace Corps and Madagascar back to the San Francisco Bay Area in a quest to create businesses that can thrive without grants.
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Plant a tree, pay a salary, save the climate — all at once
Tim Whitley's Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty bird-dogs big problems by connecting their solutions.
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Energy bar-ista moves from reality TV to real food
Corey Rennell took what he learned as a contestant on a survivalist reality-TV show and packed it into the ultra-natural Core Meal bars he now sells.
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Soul food survivor: The transformation of Trazana Staples
Here's how a Nashville resident remade herself into a crusader for healthy eating and built an oasis in a food desert.
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How a 21-year-old ended up in India with a bag full of solar flashlights
Ximena Prugue didn't know anything about India before she went there to hand out solar flashlights. All she knew was that she wanted to make a difference.
