Inspiration from people from around the world.

The Loess Plateau, an area covering 640,000 square kilometers in China’s north-central region, was a highly fertile land in the past. However, centuries of deforestation, overgrazing, and unsustainable farming led to severe soil erosion, leaving behind a …

Jadav, a farmer and father of three, lives in the remote northeastern Indian river island Majuli.  It is the largest river island in the world and experiences massive erosion due to yearly flooding.  Since 1917 the rate of erosion and land loss has accelerated and there is an imminent …

Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi plant trees together in northeastern rural China in the village of Yeli. Haixia is the elder and was born blind in his left eye because of a cataract. Later, in 2000, he had a work-related accident in a factory and lost …

Helio Da Silva is a retired business administrator. In his Sao Paulo neighborhood, there is a river where both sides of the riverbanks were degraded, full of garbage, and frequented …

The Eden Project came out of the imagination of a British businessman Sir Timothy Smit. The idea was to transform an old clay pit in Cornwall that was no longer of economic use. After raising 80 million pounds, Smit assembled a team of people to build …

The Black Mambas, founded in 2013, are an all-woman anti-poaching unit that successfully protects wildlife in Balule Wildlife Reserve in Kruger National Park of South Africa. Their mission is to make the park and its surroundings …

Liter of Light is a global, grassroots movement that uses inexpensive, readily available materials to provide high quality solar lighting to people with limited or no access to electricity.  
Liter of light started out after a typhoon hit the Philippines and wiped out …

While working with a very small, protected part of the Banks Peninsula of New Zealand, a botanist named Hugh Wilson identified the potential for nature to reassert herself and to regenerate the native forest. The problem was he had no money. Luckily, he met a businessman who had established a …

Everything fell into place when John Patterson, a retired businessman, came up with the idea of bringing a local gravel pit back to life as a garden. He’d been to see…