EDWARD ABBEY
Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and The Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism.
http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/edward-abbey/biography/

ANSEL ADAMS
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both on film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans
http://www.anseladams.com/

CARL ANTHONY
Carl Anthony is an architect, a former president of the Earth Island Institute, and a founder of the Urban Habitat Program in San Francisco, which works to promote multicultural leadership in the environmental movement.
http://www.bioneers.org/presenters/carl-anthony

JIM BACA
Jim Baca's environmental views have defined much of his political life. As head of the Bureau of Land Management under President Bill Clinton, he resigned when the administration failed to support his efforts to reform the agency's wild lands grazing policy. A former television anchorman, Baca is now mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
See Sierra Magazine For More Information
http://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149

WENDELL BERRY
Wendell Berry is an educator and the author of more than 40 works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He focuses primarily on the role of agriculture in society and human connections with the land. His work has earned him many prestigious awards such as the National Institute of the Arts and Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award, Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Ingersoll Foundation's T.S. Eliot Award to name a few. He and his wife live and work on their farm in Kentucky .- http://www.wendellberrybooks.com/author.html

JOSÉ BOVÉ
A French farmer who dismantled a McDonald's
Briarpatch, July 2001 - From Arms To Farms
http://www.bbcf.ca/_articles/josebove.htm

DAVID BROWER
David Ross Brower was born in Berkeley, California on July 1, 1912. He founded Earth Island Institute and was president of Earth Island Action Group. Brower was a life-long wilderness enthusiast and engaged in conservation battles starting in 1938.
http://www.browercenter.org/node/179

CARLA CLOER
Schoolteacher Carla Cloer grew up in California 's Sierra foothills. In the year 2000, she received the John Muir Award , the Sierra Club's highest honor, in recognition of her two decades of work protecting the giant sequoia groves she has visited since childhood. Her efforts culminated in President Clinton's creation of the Giant Sequoia National Monument in April 2000. See Sierra Magazine For

THEO COLBORN
Theo Colborn was a pharmacist and sheep farmer before going back to school for a doctorate in zoology. In 1987 she began studying the Great Lakes ecosystem and discovered that a broad range of synthetic chemicals, including dioxin and PCBs, were disrupting the endocrine systems of the region's fish, birds, and mammals. Her groundbreaking research indicated that very small amounts of these chemicals can have long-term health effects on children exposed to them in the womb. She is now a senior scientist at the World Wildlife Fund .
http://www.rachelcarsonprisen.no/eng/Prize-Winners/Theo-Colborn

 WOODY HARRELSON
Well known for his acting career, Woody Harrelson promotes sustainable living, including the use of industrial hemp. From 2001-2009 he and his wife Laura directed an online community called Voiceyourself dedicated to news briefs, comment forums, tips on how to become involved with environmental actions, and creating a place for people to connect with one another.
http://www.voiceyourself.com/ .

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ROBERT HASS
Robert Hass is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. As the U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, he sponsored a week-long celebration of American nature writing called "Watershed" and founded the River of Words Project, an international environmental poetry and art contest for children.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/194

PAUL HAWKEN
Paul Hawken has dedicated his life to redefining the relationship between business and the environment through sustainable practices. Hawken founded the Natural Capital Institute which created Wiser Earth (an open source networking tool for those concerned about social and environmental justice.).
http://www.paulhawken.com

JULIA "BUTTERFLY" HILL
Environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill lived on a 200-foot-
tall ancient redwood tree named Luna from December 10,  1997
to December 18, 1999, above the community of Stafford,
California, about 230 miles north of San Francisco.
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/hill/

DAVID HOLMGREN
David Holmgren is the co-originator of permaculture, along with Bill Mollison. Since he and Mollison published Permaculture One in 1978, Holmgren has continued to write books outlining permaculture principles and how they can be applied and has developed three properties according to these principles. He promotes the practicality of permaculture and the realism of sustainable living in contrast to dependency based consumerism.
http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/david_holmgren/

SEPP AND VERONIKA HOLZER
Sepp and Veronika Holzer are farmers living on the Krameterhof in Austria and implementing permaculture design strategies on their 45 hectare property. They have been living on the farm for over 30 years and were using sustainable agriculture techniques- working with ecological systems- long before they ever heard their integrated approach described as permaculture. Sepp Holzer now travels around the world sharing his knowledge about producing high yields while living lightly on the land
http://www.krameterhof.at/en/

CAROLE KING
Carole King is best known as a singer and songwriter, but over the past 16 years she's also made a name for herself as an environmental activist, working tirelessly to protect some of the nation's most pristine wilderness through the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.
See Sierra Magazine For More Information
http://www.caroleking.com/home.php

ENRIQUE LEFF
Enrique Leff is a philosopher and environmentalist from Mexico who focuses his work on epistemology, the political economy, and environmental education. His work has inspired many and he has continued to educate the public in Mexico as well as internationally through his involvement with the United Nations Environment Program.
http://proyecto.ecofondo.org.co/downloads/QUIEN%20ES%20ENRIQUE%20LEFF.pdf

ALDO LEOPOLD
Aldo Leopold was a key figure in the developing wildlife management and conservation systems in the United States . He worked within the newly formed U.S. Forest Service and participated in creating a management plan to designate Gila National Forest as wilderness area in 1924- the first area with such a designation.
http://www.aldoleopold.org

AMORY LOVINS
Amory Lovins is an experimental physicist and consultant who co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute and continues to work there as Chairman and Chief Scientist. He is internationally active in the fields of energy, resources, environment, development, and security. Lovins is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Mitchell Prize among others.
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Amory+B.+Lovins

L. HUNTER LOVINS
Hunter Lovins is the co-founder of the California Conservation Project (Tree People) and the Rocky Mountain Institute, and the president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions. She is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Mitchell Prize among others.
http://natcapsolutions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=247&Itemid=54

WANGARI MAATHAI
As the first female in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate, Wangari Maathai used her academic background in Biological Sciences to found the Green Belt Movement in 1986. She serves as a constant voice advocating for environmental conservation, and human rights. Passed away Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.
http://greenbeltmovement.org/w.php?id=3

CYNTHIA McKINNEY
Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) rated 100 percent on the League of Conservation Voters scorecard for 2000. In 1998 she and Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa) won the Sierra Club's Edgar Wayburn Award for their introduction of the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, which would protect all federal public lands from commercial logging.
See Sierra Magazine For More Information.
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/

RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ
Her commitment to creating a better world began early on when she became involved in the women's right movement as a teenager. Her human rights advocacy ties directly to environmental conservation as she works to preserve cultures that are suffering the horrors of genocide in part because of environmental racism. Her work earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html

BILL MOLLISON
Bill Mollison is one of the "Fathers of Permaculture." Permaculture (a combination of the words permanent and agriculture ) is an integrated design system which focuses on producing high yields with low impact techniques that obey ecological principles.
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/mollison.html

ARNE NAESS
Arne Naess was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "Deep Ecology". Deep Ecology focuses on the intrinsic value of nature and the interconnectedness of reality, acknowledges the spiritual aspect of nature, and denies the idea that nature is merely a physical object to be exploited by humans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/europe/15naess.html

POPPA NEUTRINO
Poppa Neutrino and his family have lived a nomadic lifestyle by working odd jobs and living in structures that they have built out of discarded waste. In 1998, Neutrino, with a crew that included his wife and a few friends, became the second known person in history to cross the Atlantic Ocean by raft and the first to do so on a raft made of scrap and recycled materials.
http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/Message/Poppa%20Neutrino%20Speaks.html

ROBERT REDFORD
I am so appalled by President Bush's plan to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development that I feel I must do whatever I can to help stop it.
http://www.alaskatrekker.com/redford.htm
Sundance Institute - http://www.sundance.org/

STEPHEN SCHNEIDER
Stephen Schneider was an internationally renowned climate scientist, dedicated to sharing information about global warming with the public. As a staff member at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1973-1996, Schneider co-founded the Climate Project.
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/

DAVID SUZUKI
Geneticist, broadcaster, author, and environmental activist David Suzuki is the host of Canadian television's long-running science program, The Nature of Things, and author of 32 books, including 15 for children. David Suzuki Foundation - http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
See Sierra Magazine For More Information
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

EDGAR WAYBURN
Now 94, Dr. Edgar Wayburn served five terms as president of the Sierra Club. During his many years of activism he helped establish California's Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Redwood National Park, and successfully campaigned for the preservation of 104 million acres of Alaskan open space.
http://scfoj.tumblr.com/post/431162267/dr-edgar-wayburn

For months this bicycle "RV" has been seen around Eugene. It is made of some foam and aluminum scrap. Folks like this pop up around Eugene every once in awhile. This bicycle "RV" is the owners home, doesn't create any pollution and was made from recycled materials. Thanx to this mystery man for keeping the vision alive and for demonstrating simplicity in living that benefits all of us in the world community. Thanx for bicycling and recycling!