Raised in East Moine, Illinois — with the Mississippi River practically in his backyard, Chad Pregracke has made it his life’s work to clean up that and many other great American waterways. As a teenager, Chad worked as a commercial diver, and as he did so, he began to notice the heaps of debris in […]
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now. While he is perhaps best known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary in the early 1960s and for his travels to India thereafter, it is his gentle insight into the human condition […]
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. He is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival … Redford is an avid environmentalist and remains a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He also is a staunch supporter of Native American rights, LGBT rights, and the fine arts. […]
Tom Regan was an American animal rights activist and philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001. From 1985, he also served with his wife as co-founder and co-president of the Culture and Animals […]
Born in 1925, Don Ritchie was was an Australian who, over a 45+ year period of time, officially saved 160 people from suicide (although those close to him claim that number is actually closer to 400). Ritchie resided next to The Gap, a famous cliff in Sydney, Australia, known for multiple suicide attempts. After witnessing […]
Ritz is a South Bronx teacher & administrator who believes that inner city students shouldn’t have to leave their urban communities to learn about life or live a full one … and one of the most effective methods he uses to bring these Truths across is community gardening. Ritz’s extended family of students and community […]
Fred Rogers was an American television personality who was most famous for creating, composing the theme music for, and hosting the educational television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001); a show which allowed the millions of children who watched itto bear witness to – and benefit from – Roger’s honest directness, his grandfatherly kind-heartedness, and his […]
Born in late September of 1207, Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Immensely popular in Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, the United States and South Asia, Rumi’s importance & reverence clearly transcends both national and ethnic borders. Rumi, was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, one whose doctrine advocated unlimited […]
Walter Russell was an American painter, sculptor, natural philosopher, author, and builder. While his books and lectures place him firmly in the New Thought Movement, the New York Herald Tribune more appropriately labeled him as “the modern Leonardo” … His legacy centers around a unique Cosmogony (or concept of the universe), having spent many years […]
Bayard Rustin was an American leader in the social movements for civil rights, peace, and gay rights. He openly championed non-violence as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters League. He also collaborated on the March on Washington Movement in 1941 to press for an end to discrimination in employment. He […]
Over 20 years ago, Mona Rutger realized that no one in her community was able to care for injured wildlife, so — alongside her full-time secretarial job — she became a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Originally she envisioned caring for wounded animals as a part-time hobby, thinking she would get a few dozen animals a year. […]
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