Featured Change Agents

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  I am a single mom in the South Bronx who quit her day job to be come a full time activist. I am now seeking to create the first Hunts Point Urban Farm and creating a nonprofit that would create a network of urban farms in the Boogie Down!

  Tanya Fields

  Mom From the Boogie Down Seeks to Bring Urban Farm Uptown

  Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Land; Environmental Justice/ Urban Farming

  1,064 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

  

  I am Tin-Ho Chow (call me Tino), and I'll be riding my bike across the United States from Providence to Seattle to raise awareness and money for affordable housing.

  Tin-Ho Chow

  Biking across US for affordable housing

  Cause Area: Homelessness

  2,949 Story Views

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  In the world - rape is something that degrades and destroys everyone it touches. In the DR Congo - it is a weapon of war that is used to destroy an entire culture. Experience the story of the DRC through two women's story of working there. NOW YOU KNOW - NOW WE DO SOMETHING

  Congocast

  Raising Awareness of the Rape Crisis in the DR Congo

  Cause Areas: Human Rights: Child Soldiers, Genocide, Poverty; War & Conflict: Congo; Hunger: International; Refugees

  8,414 Story Views

  1 Action Request

  

  Fortunate are those who can recall a single moment that changed their perspective of the world -- for ChangeAgent Brad Corrigan, who has performed on the stage of a sold out Madison Square Garden, it was stepping foot in burnings piles of trash, alongside the people who live there.

  Brad Corrigan

  Trashing Poverty in a Nicaraguan Landfill

  Cause Areas: Human Rights: Poverty

  19,134 Story Views

  4 Action Requests
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  Like many other lakes in small villages, Lake Patzcuaro in the state of Michoacan, Mexico is heavily polluted and rapidly shrinking. This is an ecological and social disaster. On April 5th, 2009, I will go there and delve deeper, and use what I find to contribute to a necessary change.

  Sophie Phillips

  Creating Awareness to Foster Change

  Cause Areas: Environment: Conservation, Endangered, Global Warming; Education; Corporate Responsibility: Ethical Companies; Health

  6,865 Story Views

  1 Action Request

  

  Former New York party promoter founds organization to alleviate the world's water crisis.

  Scott Harrison

  water changes everything.

  Cause Area: Environment: Water

  28,777 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

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  On April 22, 2009, I dove into the freezing-cold, dirty Atlantic Ocean in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and began a 1000+ mile swim to Washington, DC. Along the way, I will help students in over 2,000 classrooms launch projects designed to improve the health of our ocean planet.

  Christopher Swain

  Swimming For A Healthy World

  Cause Areas: Environment: Conservation, Endangered, Global Warming, Water; Improving the health of our ocean planet

  19,397 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

  

  Have you ever asked yourself, what does "organic" really mean? I'm traveling the country with my friend Mark to talk with farmers, urban gardeners, teachers and restaurant owners about where our food comes from. We'll be sharing what we learn through videos, blog posts and updates from the road!

  Dorothee Royal-Hedinger

  Exploring America's Sustainable Food Landscape

  Cause Area: Environment; sustainable food

  3,312 Story Views

  3 Action Requests
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  If you want to know what's cool, new and green, you've come to the right place. I'm a green trendspotter and entrepreneur, working to get people inspired so we can achieve a sustainable future faster.

  Cate Trotter

  Sexy sustainability inspiration for businesses and individuals

  Cause Area: Environment

  7,566 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

  

  Very simply, Eco-Running is the variation of recreational running in which the participant collects the litter that is found along the path traveled. Run. Pick up trash. Repeat. Participate in the movement that is changing your world one run at a time!

  Samuel Huber

  Combine your passion for fitness with environmental activism!

  Cause Area: Environment; Litter Reduction/Elimination

  2,048 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

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  Art for Water Installation: 13,699 recycled clear plastic water bottle caps used to represent people who die every day from lack of access to clean water. Christine Destrempes is engaging the public in making this installation.

  Christine Destrempes

  Art for Water

  Cause Area: Environment: Water; To Raise Awareness of Global Water Crisis through Art

  6,313 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

  

  We're Anna and Marcus, a team both in life and work, from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Algalita has been studying plastics in the ocean for over 10 years. Plastics are entering the food chain, and even showing up in fish you and I eat! Learn about some of the unusual ways we're working to raise awareness.

  JUNKride

  JUNKride: awareness and action to stop the plague of plastic in our oceans

  Cause Areas: Environment: Conservation, Water; Education; Energy; Corporate Responsibility: Sustainability

  4,530 Story Views

  3 Action Requests
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  Nick and I (Mark) were up late one night, marvelling at the sheer scale of green activity going on around us, and yet confused about how frustratingly difficult it was for our friends to find out "how to be green". So we set up Project Dirt to be an active community, linking environmental projects. At the moment we're trialling in South London, but hoping to expand really soon. So do get stuck in and follow our story as it evolves!

  Project Dirt

  Bringing people together to make environmental change happen

  Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Conservation, Endangered; Energy: Alternative; Corporate Responsibility

  6,578 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

  

  We're Nate and Sami out of RISD. We use design as a tool to battle social and environmental problems. Nate is designing sustainable products for marginalized communities, while Sami is teaching Design for Social Entrepreneurship at RISD and getting ready to pilot an eco-home redecorating show with inner-city teens. Follow us as we pursue our careers as impact designers!

  Sami Nerenberg & Nate Bastien

  Designing Social and Environmental Impact

  Cause Area: Environment

  8,980 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

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  This year I'm travelling in Europe, visiting natural areas, sustainable agriculture farms and getting involved in mobilisation for protests at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen. Last year I was working on building, supporting and training Climate Action Groups in Australia. I also engage in direct action, political lobbying, policy formulation and education about climate change and ways to take action.

  Erland Howden

  Community Climate Action

  Cause Areas: Energy: Alternative, Fossil, Solar; Environment: Conservation, Global Warming

  12,214 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

  

  Join this volunteer mission trip to EL Mynia, Egypt and experience history in the making. You will contribute to rendering inadequate housing part of ancient tales, while you travel to one of the most exotic destinations in the world.

  Mitssy Rovira

  What if you had the power to help one family change their reality?

  Cause Area: Homelessness; “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

  1,189 Story Views

  1 Action Request