It’s not an easy time to be an outspoken environmental activist in Brazil, yet Fe Cortez has managed to make it seem not only effortless but also chic. As the founder of Menos Um Lixo, a reusable cup company, she’s gotten her colorful collapsible products into the hands of influential Brazilians around the country – […]
Autumn Peltier, an Indigenous activist from the Anishinabek First Nation Canada, is one of those rare people who will never need to search for a purpose in life. She seemingly came out of the womb already set on her path: to advocate for people’s right to clean water, the rights of water itself, and the […]
It was the sight of the plastic-filled insides of a washed-up whale on the news that moved 23-year-old Jolene Marie Cholock-Rotinsulu to launch a campaign and start-up company dedicated to reducing plastic use and waste, reaching hundreds of thousands of people through her social media as well as visits to villages and schools across her […]
The way terms like “activist burnout” and “climate anxiety” roll off the tongue of 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor is a worrying but telling insight into what it’s like to be a face of the global youth climate change movement. Pulling 12-hour days in the halls of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, founding her own advocacy organization […]
