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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Founded in 2002, this coalition of non-profits works to raise awareness about the dangers of toxic ingredients in personal-care products and works to protect the health of consumers and workers that make the products by driving policy changes that support safer formulations.

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Twitter: @safecosmetics

Navdanya

This participatory research initiative was started by world-renowned physicist, feminist, author and environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, PhD. “Navdanya” means “nine seeds,” which represent India’s collective source of food security. Navdanya’s mission is to protect and conserve plant biodiversity, create awareness of the dangers of genetic engineering, protect indigenous knowledge and culture and support local farmers. The program has its own seed bank and organic farm in northern India and has conserved more than 5,000 crop varieties.

www.navdanya.org

Twitter: @drvandanashiva

Vandana Shiva, PhD

Physicist Dr. Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental and human rights activist. She is founder of Navdanya, a network of Indian seed keepers and organic producers. She is author of multiple books including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace, Stolen Harvest: the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. www.navdanya.org Twitter: @drvandanashiva

Majora Carter

Carter, an urban planning visionary and MacArthur “genius” grant winner, believes that urban renewal must include eco-friendly practices as well as job training and environmentally sustainable economic development. She now promotes her pioneering efforts through her own economic planning firm, the Majora Carter Group, and her pioneering ideas have been put into practice in the South Bronx as well in New Orleans and several North Carolina coastal towns.

http://www.majoracartergroup.com/

Twitter: @majoracarter

Pesticide Action Network – North America

The dedicated team at Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN North America, or PANNA), along with their worldwide partners, works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. Their mission is to link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network that challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.

http://www.panna.org/

Twitter: @pesticideaction

Van Jones

Internationally recognized for his pioneering efforts in human rights and clean-energy economy, Van Jones served as a White House adviser and is currently a senior fellow in the Energy and Environment program at the Center for New American Progress. He is also the founder of “Green For All,” a national organization working to get green jobs to disadvantaged communities.

http://www.vanjones.net/

Twitter: @VanJones68

Simran Sethi

An Emmy-award winning journalist, author and associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, this popular eco-hero holds an MBA in sustainable business from Presidio School of Management and is a regular contributor to TreeHugger, NBC, PBS, The Huffington Post and Oprah.com. Sethi’s online column “The Green Girl” at Oprah.com (www.oprah.com) includes posts about her eco-friendly home renovations.

www.simransethi.com

Twitter: @simransethi