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Richard Roy

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1993, Harvard-trained lawyer Dick Roy left behind his corner office in Portland, Oregon, to launch an encore career with his wife, Jeanne, devoted to a higher purpose: environmental sustainability. “We were acutely aware that climate change was on the horizon and...

Gary Oppenheimer

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 2009, master gardener and computer expert Gary Oppenheimer was running a community garden in New Jersey. Many of his fellow gardeners were frustrated that much of the fresh produce they grew went to waste. “I hate waste,” Oppenheimer says. There are 40 million home...

Jerry Moles

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A native son of rural Virginia, Jerry Moles spent decades as a college professor and consultant helping rural communities cultivate productive, income-generating and environmentally friendly agricultural businesses. He worked mostly on the West Coast and in Sri Lanka....

Ke Chung Kim

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

For more than 50 years, a heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) 155 miles long and 2.4 miles wide has separated North Korea and South Korea. For nearly as long, insect taxonomist and forensic entomologist Ke Chung Kim has dreamed of a united Korea. During a...

Sajed Kamal

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Sajed Kamal grew up in Bangladesh and came to the United States in 1963 to pursue his education. Developing an early interest in renewable energy, he went on to turn that interest into a 30-year career in sustainable, renewable energy education. Along with teaching...

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