do what you love
love what you do
Table of doers
Who, where, when:
Their innovative solution:
The need:
Robert Owen
Wales,
United Kingdom
Early 1800’s
http://www.robert-owen.mid-wales.com
He sparked the cooperative movement through his work creating “model communities” in the United Kingdom.
He was upset with the living conditions in his community, especially the way that the mill workers were being treated and he was determined to make a change.
Florence Nightengale
Europe
Mid 1800’s
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
She was a pioneer of modern nursing.
She was inspired by what she took as a Christian divine calling experienced first in 1837 and later throughout her life.
Saul David Alinsky
hicago, USA
The 1930’s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
He was a main figure of community organizing. He lead new ways to organize the poor and powerless and created a backyard revolution in cities across America.
As a slum kid raised in Chicago he decided to make a change in his own backyard, beginning locally.
Wangari Maathai
Kenya
Since 1970’s
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org
She is an environmental and political activist. She founded the Green Belt Movement which has now planted over 40 million trees across Kenya to prevent soil erosion, especially focusing on mobilizing women in poverty.
As the daughter of farmers in the highlands of Mount Kenya she became inspired by her surroundings to use her passion for the environment and female empowerment.
Ray Anderson
Texas, USA
Since 1994
He is the founder and chairman of Interface Inc. (floor manufacturer). He is committed to reducing and later eliminating petroleum from the company’s manufacturing processes.
Read a book by Paul Hawken entitled The Ecology of Commerce, which argues that the industrial system is destroying the planet. He was immediately moved to make a drastic change in the way his company impacted the environment.
Cecilia Zanotti
Brazil
Since 2003
Co-founded an NGO called Projeto Bagagem, which is a community based eco- friendly tourism network.
Peggy Liu
China
Since 2007
She founded JUCCCE (Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy).
“The world is at war with energy and China is our common battlefield”.
