Featured Change Agents

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  Three hundred and fifty is something we all eat, sleep, live and literally breathe. You may not know it yet, but 350 is going to become the most important, talked about number on the planet. At least that’s the plan.

  Agent 350

  AGENT 350. Building a Global Climate Movement.

  Cause Area: Environment; Lead the World to 350

  24,103 Story Views

  7 Action Requests

  

  We are Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris, a husband and wife team that produces artworks and visual media about climate change. How can we convey the urgent reality of this issue; and how can we motivate others to act? Is it art if we try? Or is activism always different than art? Follow our projects and help us with your own vision! And, by the way, help us keep our marriage in tact! We need you!

  The Canary Project

  Helping The World Visualize Global Warming

  Cause Areas: Environment: Global Warming

  37,952 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

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  New Orleans, late October, 2006: I have never seen so much debris. It was everywhere. Home upon gutted home was thrown onto the sidewalk. On the surface it was just debris but the reality was that these were lives sprawled on the side of the road. Then, after two weeks it all became normal; the surreal became real.

  Tim White

  Art as Liberator in New Orleans

  Cause Area: Education; Disaster Recovery, Art Education

  6,870 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

  

  A team from Seventh Generation, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Yestermorrow Design/Build School formed the Carbon Shredders with the hope of starting a national low carbon diet movement. The idea caught on the group recently launched the Bonnaroo Carbon Shredders at the music festival.

  Carbon Shredders

  Carbon Shredders Go Global

  Cause Area: Environment: Global Warming

  4,546 Story Views

  1 Action Request
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  There are many issues that I am passionate about, some are Youth Engagement, Fair Trade, Sustainable Development, and Climate Change. Read further to see how a guy from little P.E.I., Canada has attended UN conferences, worked on a UNDP project and still has yet to get a university degree.

  Adam MacIsaac

  Engaging To Become Inspired

  Cause Areas: Education: Access, Adult, College; Energy: Alternative; Environment: Conservation

  5,409 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

  

  Our family will be traveling the U.S. in our veggie-powered Beetle visiting renewable energy sites and sustainable companies to make eco-videos for kids.

  Colin McCullough

  Cross-Country Eco-Video Project

  Cause Area: Energy: Alternative; renewable energy

  11,366 Story Views

  1 Action Request

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  I'm 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, Wind; Environment: Global Warming

  6,832 Story Views

  2 Action Requests

  

  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

  4,767 Story Views

  1 Action Request
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  This summer, watch as Reverb travels with major touring bands – The Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer and Maroon 5/Counting Crows – to help educate and engage fans around environmental sustainability.

  Reverb

  Working With Bands to Color the Music Industry Green

  Cause Areas: Energy: Alternative; Environment: Global Warming; Music Industry

  38,512 Story Views

  10 Action Requests

  

  Don't blame me when Environmental Doom Dude comes knockin' on your door - you should have listened to me all along!

  Tom Schueneman

  Global Warming is Real

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

  5,907 Story Views

  1 Action Request

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

  Scott Harrison

  water changes everything.

  Cause Area: Environment: Water

  13,337 Story Views

  3 Action Requests

  

  Seacology is an international environmental nonprofit organization that focuses on saving endangered species, habitats and cultures of islands throughout the world.

  Seacology

  Saving Island Environments Around the World

  Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Conservation, Endangered, Global Warming; Energy: Alternative; Education; Indigenous cultures

  9,302 Story Views

  1 Action Request
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  I was born in Iowa and raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Growing up I saw a lot of hopeful entrepreneurs in my country, but with no access to start-up funding the endless wheel of poverty would just keep on turning. It was up to me to be a “stick in the spokes” of that wheel.

  Chingwell Mutombu

  Microlender’s small loans spark big changes in the Congo

  Cause Area: Human Rights: Poverty; Poverty

  5,898 Story Views

  3 Action Requests

  

  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

  11,868 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

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  I am Elizabeth, your 23 year old designtrepreneur! I work hard to design sustainable solutions, and educate and inspire sustainable decisions. My main inspiration is human energy transfer, my project is POWERleap- a flooring system destined for high foot-traffic urban areas that generates electricity via human footfall!

  Elizabeth Redmond

  Designtrepreneur Turns the Alternative Energy Paradigm on its Head!

  Cause Area: Environment; Alternative Energy, Sustainable Materials

  21,326 Story Views

  4 Action Requests

  

  Western consumers are increasingly seeking organic products from exotic places. Producers in developing countries are producing them but don't have access to Western markets. Helping them to gain this access and to establish premium brands offers entire communities a new way of sustainable growth.

  Robin Bartling

  Premium Brands from the Developing World

  Cause Area: Corporate Responsibility: Fair Sourcing

  5,667 Story Views

  3 Action Requests