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Fifteen-year-old Otana Jakpor's research influenced the California Air Resources Board in adopting a regulation that limits ozone emissions from air purifiers to less than 0.050 parts per million, making California the first state in the nation to regulate ozone generators.
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Posted by Diana Budds
Tony Anderson co-founded “Let’s Raise a Million,” an organization installing a million CFL bulbs in the homes of lower income individuals.
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Project Jatropha's main aim is to produce biofuel from Jatropha seedlings for tobacco farmers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while processing tobacco.
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Posted by Diana Budds
Oakland, CA resident Beth Terry led a successful campaign to get Brita to take back used water filters and recycle them.
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Interested in science and the ecology of the vernal pools, which are seasonal, temporary pools of water, Clay organized the Wetlands Education Team, to create a 1.25-acre wetland and teach students and property owners about the importance and protection of wetlands.
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Since 1998, Kemba Shakur’s Urban Releaf has planted 14,000 trees in Oakland and Richmond, CA, and trained more than 4,000 youth in their care.
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As an employee of Washington D.C.'s Department of the Environment, Jill Wohrle is helping to create the largest green jobs program for youth in the country.
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Posted by Amy Linn, SustainLane Staff
Tom “Smitty” Smith is one of the leading lights in the environmental movement, in his home state of Texas and beyond.
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When Sam Levin saw the movie "An Inconvenient Truth," he conceived of the idea of creating a school food garden as a way to help save the world. His student-run, organic garden now produces food for the school cafeteria.
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Miriam Avins is the founder of Baltimore Green Space, a non-profit land trust organization that works to support and permanently protect community adopted/created gardens on vacant lots.
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Dakota Palacio founded Beholdance to take a look at issues affecting the health and well being of our planet and to stand up and give youth a voice to our future, while instilling values, character and education regarding conservation and community service to better the world.
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Posted by Amy Linn, SustainLane Staff
Maya Donelson created a landmark organic food garden on the rooftop of San Francisco’s venerated Glide Memorial Church.
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Erik from Harford Day School inspired to write a book in his second grade about butterflies when he came to know that butterflies taste with their feet.
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