Upcycled Food Association
Upcycled Food Association (UFA) is a global trade association working to prevent food waste by growing the market for products made from ingredients that would otherwise be thrown away. Founded in 2019, UFA now connects hundreds of member companies, from small startups to major food brands, that transform surplus and “imperfect” produce, spent grain, avocado […]
Ermias Kebreab
Ermias Kebreab is a professor of animal science and associate dean for global engagement at UC Davis, where he also directs the World Food Center. Raised in Eritrea with a lifelong love of milk, he has built a career at the intersection of livestock productivity and environmental sustainability. His research took an unexpected turn toward […]
ReFED
ReFED is a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the U.S. food system through data-driven solutions and strategic capital. Founded in 2015 by a coalition of industry, government, and philanthropic leaders, ReFED produced the first national economic roadmap for reducing food waste, and its data and methodologies have since been adopted […]
The Revolutionary Love Project
Founded by visionary civil rights leader Valarie Kaur, the Revolutionary Love Project inspires and equips people to build beloved community, centered on the ethic of love. The project begins from a premise that challenges contemporary culture’s reduction of love to personal feeling: love has been captured by greeting cards and pop songs as personal and […]
University for Peace (UPEACE)
The University for Peace was established in 1980 by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, born from the conviction that lasting peace would need its own institution of higher learning—one dedicated not to winning wars but to understanding what makes them end for good. Headquartered on a campus built into a protected forest […]
Ian MacKenzie
Ian MacKenzie is a passionate artist dedicated to weaving visions of the possible, believing that if we can’t envision a future that works for all life, we are more likely to hold on to the familiar even when it’s clear it has become obsolete. Over the last 15+ years, he has used a variety of […]
Planet Project
The Planet Project exists to support the global shift toward a life-honoring, partnership-based planetary culture, using the word “Planet” to symbolize the wholeness and interconnectedness of all life—expressed in their tagline “All Life, One Planet.” Rather than building a movement of their own, the volunteer-driven U.S. nonprofit focuses on uplifting the many individuals and organizations […]
Valarie Kaur
Valarie Kaur is a civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, and author rooted in the Sikh farming communities of California’s Central Valley, where her family has lived for more than a century. Her grandfather gave her Sikh wisdom through stories and songs that showed the way of the sant-sipahi—the sage-warrior—where the sage loves […]
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Andrew Weil, M.D., is the physician most responsible for bringing integrative medicine into mainstream awareness—and for insisting that the word “integrative” actually mean something. Trained at Harvard in biology and medicine, he spent years studying medicinal plants, traditional healing systems, and cultural approaches to health across the Americas and Africa before concluding what conventional medicine […]
One Spirit Learning Alliance
Founded in 2001 by Rev. Diane Berke and Rev. Joyce Lichtenstein in the aftermath of September 11th, One Spirit Learning Alliance is a New York-based interspiritual education community whose vision is to inspire and advance the evolution of sacred consciousness in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. Rather than asking seekers to choose one […]
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) is the largest Indigenous peoples’ network in the world—a membership organization representing 135 communities across 21 African countries, from hunter-gatherer peoples of the Kalahari to nomadic pastoralists of the Sahel. Founded in 1997, IPACC works at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and the preservation of […]
The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis is a moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a family’s fight to preserve its legacy. For members of the Yurok Tribe in California, the Klamath River and its salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a […]
Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is a recognized global visionary who has spent more than 40 years committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, empowering women and girls, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. The breadth of her work ranges from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to guiding refugees in Ethiopian camps to protecting threatened Amazon […]
YES!
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sustainability), founded by two teenagers in California in 1990 Ocean Robbins & Ryan Eliason, connects, inspires, and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just, and regenerative ways of life for all. The organization provides co-creative brave spaces for people gifted with compassion and a desire to make a difference—people looking for […]
The Wellbeing Project
The Wellbeing Project, conceived in 2014 as a co-creation, works to integrate inner wellbeing and social change, recognizing that cultural and systemic transformation requires the effort, insight, and input of different groups woven into a larger whole. Today over 60 institutions worldwide co-create the Project, including leading nonprofits, intermediaries, foundations, universities, media groups, venture capital […]
Institute for Relational Repair and Mutuality
The Institute for Relational Repair and Mutuality invites people across race, class, and gender into the slow, courageous work of healing the wounds left by chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and systems that divide us. The organization nurtures practices and tends relationships that restore dignity, belonging, and interconnection, serving as a hub where relational repair circles […]