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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered as a man of principle.  His dedication to equality and nonviolence has shaped the landscape of modern America. That is why he is honored with a federal holiday on the third Monday of January.  Many communities and schools devote this day to the service of others through activities such as food drives, cleaning projects and youth programs. To get involved locally is easy. All you need to do is go to the MLK Day of Service website and enter your zip code to find service projects near you. Read on...

Both audibly and visually, Eco Elvis is Kansas City, Missouri’s loudest attention-getter for environmentalism. He dresses in an obnoxious green-sequined jumpsuit studded with bottle caps and rhinestones and authentically “sweated” with recycled Fanta orange drink. At 6’ 4”—plus another six inches added by his Elvis wig—he quakes with Elvis charisma. Read on…

Theo Colborn, Ph.D., is an environmental-health analyst best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—substances in the environment that mimic hormones and disrupt the hormonal processes in wildlife and humans. In 1991, she convened the interdisciplinary conference that produced the historic Wingspread Consensus Statement that alerted the world about endocrine disruption. She is coauthor of the book Our Stolen Future, which describes how chemical pollutants cause  birth defects, reproductive failures and sexual abnormalities. Read on...

John de Graaf is an activist filmmaker who has been producing documentaries—primarily for public television—for 30 years. His films, Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza, explore with humor the exorbitant environmental and social costs of American consumerism since the 1950s. As a filmmaker, he has received more than 100 regional, national and international awards. He also founded the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Fest, held annually at the University of Washington in Seattle. Read on…

Featured in Business Week, the New York Times, CNN and NPR, along with dozens of other major publications, and appearing in television shows and films, on radio programs and at countless conferences, South Bronx environmental-justice advocate Majora Carter is one very busy woman. But a nearly bursting agenda and numerous obstacles have never deterred her. As a former associate told the New York Times, “That woman has no fear.” And he couldn’t have said it better. Read on…