Role Models

Going completely sustainable is hard, but Role Models make it easier! The organizations, leaders, and companies below are striving to work and live sustainably.

Local Role Models 

Urban Roots (Facebook/Instagram: @urbanroots)
Carbon Free Family (Instagram: @carbonfreefamily)

Get Involved with Urban Roots

We love Urban Roots, and we think you will too! Check out the link above on how you can be a part of this unique non-profit.

Global Role Models 

 Lucy Biggers (Instagram: @lucybiggers)
 Patagonia 
 Ben & Jerry's 
 Pattie Gonia (Instagram: @pattiegonia)
 Leah Thomas (Instagram: @greengirlleah)
 Gift of Hope (Facebook/Instagram: @giftofhopehaiti)
 Greta Thunberg (Instagram: @gretathunberg)

Lucy Biggers' Webpage!

why we love Patagonia

Films and Documentaries 

About Climate Change 
Before the Flood 
Merchants of Doubt 
Demain/Tomorrow 
An Inconvenient Sequel 

About Waste 
​The Story of Plastic 
Minimalism
The True Cost 
The Story of Stuff
The Soil Story

About Land 
Biggest Little Farm
The Ground Between Us 

About Water​
Dark Waters ​
Tapped
Flint: The Poisoning of an American City 
The Story of Bottled Water 
Great Lakes Bad Lines

About Energy ​
The Carbon Rush
Gasland​

About Community and Society 
13th 
Just Mercy 
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Books and Podcasts

Books

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein 
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 
AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
The Fracking Debate by Daniel Raimi 
Collapse by Jared Diamond​
​Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Podcasts 

​Why Our Brains Weren't Made to Deal with Climate Change
How to Compost at Home 
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