Featured Change Agents

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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

  58 Backers

  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: Global Warming

  12 Backers

  1 Action Request

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  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

  74 Backers

  4 Action Requests

  

  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: Alternative, Energy, Environment, Fossil, Global Warming, Solar, Wind

  9 Backers

  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: Alternative, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Music Industry

  52 Backers

  10 Action Requests

  

  Living a GREEN and SUSTAINABLE life style can be easy. We want to share these changes in our every day habits that save energy and money. We make short video stories about this topic.

  Debrianna and David Mansini-Forlano

  Everyday GREEN Action that YOU can do NOW.

  Cause Area: Environment, lower your carbon footprint at home.

  33 Backers

  1 Action Request

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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

  11 Backers

  4 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: Child Soldiers, Congo, Genocide, Human Rights, International, Poverty, Refugees, War & Conflict

  4 Backers

  1 Action Request
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  Making cigarette receptacles with educational materials from cigarette butts themselves. Join the Responsible Smokers Act - a self-sustaining non-profit solution and be a part of the Green Revolution!!

  Mike Davis

  The Solution is in the Problem!!!

  Cause Areas: Adult, Conservation, Education, Environment, Ethical Companies, Health, Human Rights, K-12, Land, Man-Made Disaster, Research, Sustainability, Water, Pollution Prevention, Collection, and Education

  123 Backers

  5 Action Requests

  

  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: Poverty, Poverty

  18 Backers

  3 Action Requests

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  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: Alternative, renewable energy

  7 Backers

  1 Action Request

  

  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: Alternative, Energy, Environment, Fossil, Global Warming, Land, Solar, Sustainability, Water, Wind

  6 Backers

  1 Action Request
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  ...Treehouses? Are you wondering what they have to do with changing the world for the better? O2 Treehouse makes environmentally friendly geodesic sphere treehouses with a social cause. Every time we install a treehouse part of the profits go towards building community owned treehouses in an under privileged community. Eco tourists and volunteers visiting the community stay in the treehouses and the revenue goes directly to fund other important projects like water, agricultural, or education projects.

  Dustin Feider

  Connecting the World with Treehouses

  Cause Areas: Environment, Sustainability, Environment, Conservation, Economic Development

  36 Backers

  1 Action Request

  

  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: Fair Sourcing

  10 Backers

  3 Action Requests

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  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 Area: Human Rights

  83 Backers

  4 Action Requests

  

  If you’re on the road and hear the sounds of a ukulele gently wafting out the windows of a tricked-out, green Harvester school bus, close behind you'll see us – a group of 12 college students rocking and rolling across the country this summer out to educate the world about alternative fuels.

  The Big Green Bus

  Join The Big Green Machine Dream Team To Tame Climate Change

  Cause Areas: Alternative, Energy, Environment

  103 Backers

  4 Action Requests