Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of
village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a
plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a
near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Hickey researched a man - made chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, that has been used since the 1940s to make industrial and household products, like nonstick coatings and heat - resistant wiring, including at a factory owned by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics
near the
village water treatment
plant.
The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a
village in Rensselaer County
near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics
plant run by Saint - Gobain.
Reports from the ground indicate Baruva
village is under consideration as a possible site, despite the fact it is located
near Sompeta — the
village that «launched» the anti-coal movement in India when over 3,000 people rose up to stop a coal
plant.