The following profiles on environmental activists, heroes, and martyrs were curated by the Ethics Center's Environmental Ethics Fellows.
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
The Next Generation - Youth “Artivist” and Environmental Advocate
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Selina Leem
The Future of an Island Home
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Anna Jane Joyner
When the Apple Falls Far From the Tree
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Abby Barrows
Fighting Plastic Pollution with Citizen Science
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Leng Ouch
Protector of the Cambodian Forests
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Teresa Baker
Diversifying the Environmental Movement
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Julia Butterfly Hill
Keeping Hope Alive for California Redwoods
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Berta Cáceres
Honduran Indigenous Rights Activist and Environmental Martyr
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Elon Musk
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Maxima Acuña
"Badass Grandma Standing Up to Big Mining"
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Chris McKay
Microbes, Morals, and Mars
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Majora Carter
Creating Better Neighborhoods at Home
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Michelle Marvier
21st Century Conservation
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Michel Laberge
Revolutionizing Energy with Nuclear Fusion
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Winona LaDuke
Indigenous Environmental and Land Rights Activist
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Gregory Mankiw
A Bipartisan Solution to Pollution
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Al Gore
America's First Political Climate Action Hero
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Amory Lovins
The Soft Energy Path
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Larry Gibson
The Keeper of the Mountains
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Tony DeBrum
A Large Voice from Tiny Islands
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
A Continuing Struggle over Oil
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Wangari Muta Maathai
Empowerment Through Reforestation
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Carl Sagan
Cosmic Environmentalism
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Paul Ehrlich
Doomsday Environmentalist
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David Brower
Building Bridges and Stopping Dams
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Rachel Carson
The Perfect Poison in a Time of Toxins
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Lynn White
Christianity and Environmentalism
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Ansel Adams
The Strength of the Shutter: Photography and the Environmental Movement
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Aldo Leopold
Intrinsic Environmentalism
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Theodore Roosevelt
President and Pragmatic Conservationist
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John Muir
Conservation versus Preservation