It started with a T-shirt.

Elizabeth Stanton preaches a gospel of sport.

By Mariya Strauss

“Nature is the ultimate open platform -- it is there to teach you and give you whatever else you need,” says Rue Mapp. But Mapp realized that she rarely saw other African Americans enjoying the outdoors or being active in conservation and nature groups, so they were not always reaping those rewards. A few years ago, Mapp founded Outdoor Afro, a national organization and community to reconnect African Americans with natural spaces and one another through camping, birding, skiing, hiking, and gardening.

Artists can transform cities. They turn wasted buildings into studios and lofts. Galleries and cafes follow. The neighborhood gentrifies.

by Maxine Greenleaf

Many Harvard Business School classmates went to hedge funds or Wall Street, but Elizabeth Scharpf works in Africa... with sanitary pads.

Art can help solve the problem of slavery and trafficking. Or so thinks Kay Chernush.

Judith McGeary's t-shirt labels her clearly as an organic sticker: Agtivist.

This is Nancy Welsh’s math of urban renewal: She has subtracted 11 million pounds of construction debris from landfills.

Sarah Jamieson has raised nearly $800,000 for charity— mostly by running.

By Mimi Frost

You can’t exactly buy DNA on Amazon.

It’s hard to make a living, if you don’t have a car.  You may have a job offer, daycare, but if there’s no bus service, you