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Baltimore's googly-eyed, solar-and-water-powered trash-eating wheel that keeps the harbor clean.

An Indigenous-led nonprofit installs off-grid solar and battery systems for Navajo and Hopi families still living without electricity.

The first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the US is quietly buying and receiving back parcels of Ohlone territory across the San Francisco Bay Area, acre by acre.

Co-founded by Jimmy Buffett in 1981, this Florida nonprofit funds manatee rescue, rehabilitation and the Adopt-A-Manatee programme that has made the species a global conservation icon.

Charm Industrial converts leftover crop and forestry residue into bio-oil that gets injected deep underground, locking carbon away for thousands of years.

A grassroots health movement that has mobilized more than a million Black women across the US to walk daily for their physical, mental and community health.

The world's largest reef restoration organization, returning hundreds of thousands of nursery-grown corals to Florida's reefs.

A Colorado nonprofit founded by a disabled Iraq war veteran that trains climbing gyms nationwide in adaptive techniques and takes climbers with disabilities on world-class rock and ice trips.

A Washington DC nonprofit rescues surplus food and trains unemployed residents to cook it into scratch meals for schools and shelters.

Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves and freely shares thousands of arid-adapted heirloom seed varieties tied to Indigenous farming traditions of the American Southwest.

Residents choking on port-truck diesel exhaust turned themselves into scientists, building the community air-monitoring model that reshaped California clean-air law.

Founded by Harlem residents in 1988, WE ACT puts air-quality sensors and policy power directly into the hands of the Black and Brown New Yorkers who breathe the city's worst air.

On 80 acres in upstate New York, a Black- and Indigenous-led farm is training a new generation of farmers of color while feeding families locked out of the food system.