Jane Goodall became interested in the jungles of Africa after she read Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs when she was a young girl. The book inspired her to travel to Africa and work under anthropologist Louis Leakey, who asked her to study the chimpanzees in the area. Goodall's work revealed that h...

As a child, Alexandra Morton spent most of her free time playing in ponds and observing the wild creatures around her parents' home. She feared growing up and having to get a real job like the adults around her instead of continuing to develop her passion for the natural world. Everything changed...

As a young man, Mark Angelo was an avid white water rafting enthusiast. But a trip on the Blackfoot River in Montana changed his life forever. On that trip he discovered that mining waste was badly polluting the river near the Milltown dam. He went on to study, then teach, the importance of river...

Sara Ross (aka Red Sara) discovered a passion for cycling as a young child. While studying under Jim Green at the University of British Columbia, she learned the value of community. She realized that developing community and living a simpler, low-carbon-footprint life could be intertwined with re...

Pia Massie is the granddaughter of US civil rights activist Molly Todd. Massie absorbed the values of two generations of family who used protesting to convey to the public that something was wrong. She moved to Vancouver and joined one of Canada's most famous protests, the War-of-the-Woods protes...

Originally a journalist for City TV, Patricia Sims then moved into a documentary film career. She worked with Robert (Bob) Hunter, a co-founded of Greenpeace, on a documentary called For the Love of Dolphins and later specialized in films about large-brained mammals, including two films about ele...

John Hardy moved to Bali, Indonesia, in part to escape the harsh Toronto, Ontario, winters. There he started a jewellery business that grew into a world-wide brand. After watching the film "An Inconvenient Truth", he realized his business was contributing a lot to atmospheric carbon emission. He ...