Timberland Celebrates Undiscovered Independent Environmental Activists

How many unsung environmental heroes are there in the world, tirelessly working to improve the health of the planet and all of the living creatures that call it home? In a culture where celebrities are applauded for taking the tiniest of steps while the everyday people doing the real work go mostly unnoticed by the general public, Timberland has dedicated itself to elevating environmental activists onto the global green scene.

In partnership with Changents.com, The Timberland Company is creating a unique consumer engagement engine to help get emerging eco-change agents their big break. The Earthkeepers Movement garners support for these activists on an interactive platform that connects people who are changing the world with the people who can help them do even more.

Meet the 2009 Earthkeepers Heroes – from an eco-photographer to a teacher designing green makeovers for homes with inner city youth – at Changents.com/Earthkeepers.

You can help your favorite Earthkeeper get exposure on national TV for defending the planet! All you have to do is grab a widget and post it to your social networking profile or blog. When you register to join Earthkeepers, you get the opportunity to win some cool prizes, too.

If Timberland gets 100,000 supporters for these Earthkeeper Heroes by November 1st, they’ll unveil a publicity stunt where you can take action to help the winning hero get on TV. Check it out at Changents.com.

Link [Earthkeepers]

Changent Katherine Walsh Greens Up Boston College

When Katherine Walsh joined a student organization called ‘Ecopledge’ at Boston College, it wasn’t exactly a popular group to be in. There were just five members, and the general sentiment among her fellow students at the time was that environmentalism was just for “crazy hippie treehuggers.” Then, as part of the group, Walsh attended the annual Northeast Climate Summit at the University of Vermont, meeting hundreds of other college students dedicated to environmentalism – and it changed her life.

When, as a sophomore, Walsh found herself thrust into a leadership position in Ecopledge, she decided to make some changes. From Changents.com:

We started questioning our focus as a group and realized we could not continue focusing on the national issues without trying to change our own issues at BC. We started off slowly, establishing and nurturing better relationships with Facilities Management,Residential Life, and Dining Services, or as we liked to refer to them as “The Big Three”. And so began the next three years of triumphs, disappointments, lessons, and great change. Some highlights: BC moving from 33rd to 12th in RecycleMania; the beginning and continuation of campus events like Harvest Fest, Mt. Trashmore, and the Better Off Contest; the changing of over 800 incandescent bulbs throughout campus to fluorescent bulbs; hiring of an Energy Manager, promoted to Director of Sustainability and Energy Management; the creation of a BC sustainability website (bc.edu/sustainability); the purchase of five BigBelly solar trash compactors; numerous energy retrofits in garage and Plex lighting and heating and cooling mechanisms; the creation of a campus organic garden. BC even just had its first (and very successful) “BCisGreen Week”.

BC Dining has been a true “Changent” of its own, establishing a Green Cafe of organic and local foods only, composting and new recycling patterns in the dining halls, and no longer selling bottled water within the actual food areas. These many accomplishments came through our committed long hours of meetings, campaigns, collecting signatures, hosting campus events, and campus-wide publicity through “The Heights”. We in Ecopedge were rewarded for our work with the Mass Lottery Community Champions Award, the “Ever to Excel” Award, the “Skills: Leadership Award”, and the 2008 Heights Person of the Year Award.

Today, Ecopledge is a popular campus organization with over two dozen members. In addition to winning the “Ever to Excel” Award as a group, Katherine Walsh won the 2008 Leadership Award for her efforts on behalf of the environment.

We’d like to congratulate Katherine and all the other past and present members of Ecopledge who have helped make Boston College a much greener place. Check out Katherine’s continued work to ‘Grow Boston Greener’ at Changents.com/KatherineWalsh.

Link [Changents]

Who’s Who in Green: Cate Trotter

The green job possibilities are endless – just ask Cate Trotter, who has the unlikely (and awesome) title of Sexy Sustainability Consultant. That’s right, if you want to know what’s hot, new and green, Trotter is your go-to girl. She’s a green trendspotter and entrepreneur, “working to get people inspired so we can achieve a sustainable future faster.”

Trotter gives up the details about her many green hats on Changents.com:

Insider London’s Cutting-Edge Green Tour, a tour that I devised for the business I founded, showing individuals the latest, most unusual green developments in the city. The tour takes in London’s first five-star green hotel, better-than-fairtrade chocolate, futuristic biodegradable shoes, London’s hydrogen fuel cell bus… this list goes on. Everything from the smallest eco-product to the biggest, healthiest community is covered – pleasantly surprising people at every turn.

Insider Trends, my consultancy that combines my knowledge of what’s great and green with my marketing strategy expertise. I take businesses out and about, giving them powerful first-hand experience of the best initiatives. It means their green work is more likely to be successful, benefiting their business as well as the rest of us who share the planet with them.

Trotter’s Green Tour hits some pretty cool sights in London, so it’s definitely an important stop for any green-leaning travelers headed to the city. Ethical fashion, green architecture, eco food – it’s all on the agenda. Time Out London said “Trotter is a bubbly, engaging guide with a real passion for her subject.”

Taking it upon herself to help spread the word that sustainability is fun, cool, sexy and stylish is what Trotter is all about. Check out her field reports on ‘greenspottings’, vertical gardens and more.

Cate Trotter’s Green Score: 9,128

Who’s Who in Green: Christopher Swain

Some of Christopher Swain’s earliest memories are of the Atlantic Ocean. He has long loved to swim, wade, snorkel, bodyboard and run in the waves. But as an adult, he’s swimming for a cause as often as he swims for pleasure. Swain swims the entire length of dirty waterways like the Hudson, the Charles and the Columbia Rivers to raise awareness about water issues on our planet.

And these are not pleasant, leisurely swims. He’s dodged injury and death many times in the process, surviving collisions with boats, 12-foot waves, lightning storms, class IV+ rapids, giant storage dams, industrial chemicals, nuclear waste, oil slicks, raw sewage, toxic blue-green algae, and repeated Sea Lamprey Eel attacks.

In 2003, Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River. The purpose of the swim was to raise awareness about dislocated peoples and disrupted ecosystems of the Columbia River basin. His swim is the subject of the critically-acclaimed documentary SOURCE TO SEA: the Columbia River Swim, which received the Environmental Activism and Social Justice Award at the EarthVision Film Festival, and the Most Inspiring Adventure Film Award at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival.

In April 2009, Swain began a 1000+ mile swim down the Atlantic Coast from Marblehead, Massachusetts to Washington, DC, helping students in over 2,000 classrooms launch projects designed to improve the health of our ocean planet. Swain is taking the swim one segment at a time, and you can follow his progress at Changents.com/ChristopherSwain.

Swain told The Sierra Club,

“If you’re in the business of conservation, you’ve got a responsibility to get outside. You’re not doing your job if you don’t. It’s not about e-mail blasts. It’s about what you can go out there and experience and come back and testify to. If you look at the people who’ve really done anything–John Muir, David Brower, Rachel Carson–you can feel it in their writing. Your credibility is going to come from your experience.”

Want to help Christopher on his journey? Adopt a mile of his swim.

Christopher Swain’s Green Score: 40,254

Featured Change Agent: Scott Harrison is Bringing Clean Water to Africa

Scott Harrison had the kind of life many people dream of leading: a glamorous, exciting, privileged life in the glitzy world of upper class Manhattan.  Scott was a party promoter, living in a luxurious loft and dropping hundreds of dollars on Grey Goose vodka.  But something didn’t feel right.  He wasn’t happy.  That’s when he asked himself, ‘what does the opposite of my life look like?’  After doing some digging, he found it and in that instant, his life was profoundly changed.

Scott learned about Mercy Ships, an organization that offers free medical care in the world’s poorest nations on ‘floating hospitals’ – surgery ships where hundreds of top medical professionals from around the world spend their time – and some of them, their entire lives – giving to others.  Scott joined Mercy Ships as a photojournalist, documenting the process of providing medical help to people off the coast of West Africa who were desperately in need.  It was then that he fell in love with the country of Liberia, and realized how good he really had it: he had food to eat, and water to drink. Clean water. Over the next eight months, Scott grew increasingly inspired to do whatever he could to help these people, and that’s how charity: water was born.

Charity: water is a nonprofit organization that has funded more than 600 water projects in 11 developing nations.  They fund local engineers who drill freshwater wells and teach basic sanitation and hygiene.  The wells cost between $4,000 and $10,000 each to dig.

Scott has been able to put his connections in NYC to good use, organizing fundraising projects that have helped bring in the money needed to pay for clean running water for the neediest of communities. Luckily, Scott’s friends wanted to help – and so have thousands of other people who have heard about charity: water’s mission.

You can help, too – whether you’d like to donate money, buy 5 charity: water bracelets so you can spread the message to your friends and family (100% of proceeds goes to building wells), or join Changents as a backer.  As a Changents backer, you can act as a fan, a buzz builder, or a volunteer.  You can also respond to Scott’s action requests to help charity: water continue to make a vital difference in Africa.

Link [Changents] + [Charity: water]

Featured Change Agent: Mike Davis is Recycling Pollution into Solutions

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week we’re putting the spotlight on Mike Davis, a change agent who’s fighting to turn millions of chemical-filled discarded cigarette butts into cigarette collection bins.  That’s right, he’s pushing the ‘Responsible Smokers Act’, which seeks to educate the public about the environmental and health impacts of the improper disposal of cigarette butts, which contain carcinogens.

The rationale behind Mike’s idea is simple: smokers make their own choice to expose themselves to the harmful substances in cigarettes.  But when they litter the streets, waterways, parks and other public spaces with the remnants of those cigarettes, they’re infringing on non-smokers’ rights not to be contact with those substances.  There hasn’t been a lot of research into whether improperly discarded cigarette butts might be contaminating our water and soil.  As Mike points out, cigarette filters were created to trap and contain many of the harmful ingredients in cigarettes – so, how do we know those toxins aren’t getting to the rest of us through other means?

Mike Davis’ solution is not only to make the public more aware of this problem, but to actually recycle used cigarette filters, which are made of cellulose acetate, into cigarette collection bins. He’s currently working with the patent holder of cigarette butt recycling and hopes to have a program in place soon.

Mike is currently seeking someone with a degree in business and knowledge about startups and running non-profit organizations to help him develop his business model.  He’s also seeking a 501 ©(3) fiscal sponsorship so he can begin accepting donations, a chemist to help him in the process of recycling the cigarette filters and a web designer willing to donate their time and skills to help him build a website for the Responsible Smokers Act.

If you can provide any of these services or want to help Mike in another way, join Changents as a backer.  Respond to his action requests, volunteer, give Mike support or just help spread the word.  Joining Changents is easy and becoming a backer will allow you to help out other change agents seeking to make the world a better place as well.

Link [Changents]

Featured Change Agent: Seacology Aims to Save Islands Around the World

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week’s featured Change Agent is ‘Seacology’. Seacology is an international environmental non-profit organization that is focusing their efforts on saving endangered species, habitats and cultures of islands around the world, from the Caribbean to Indonesia. In the last 400 years, the majority of the world’s plant and animal extinctions have taken place on islands in what leading biologist Dr. Peter J. Bryant has called “one of the swiftest and most profound biological catastrophes in the history of the earth.”

The knowledge that island habitats are so fragile, and that indigenous people are so often forced to choose between economic development and protecting their natural resources, led to the formation of Seacology.  Seacology is headed up by executive director Duane Silverstein along with a small staff including Susan Racanelli, Ellen Kamoe, Emily Klokkevold, Karen Peterson and Lisa Rosenthal.   Seacology also has field representatives around the world who scout out projects.

With the help of volunteers, Seacology has saved 163,811 acres of island terrestrial habitat and 1,808,443 acres of coral reef and other marine habitat.  They’ve also built or funded 76 schools, community centers, water delivery systems and other critically needed island facilities and 26 scholarship programs, vital medical services and supplies and other critical support for island communities.

Check out this video of Seacology’s southern Madagascar project:

Seacology has received many honors for their work, including the Islands Magazine Blue Award, the Travel + Leisure Global Vision Award, the Yahoo Pick for Good and the California Association of Nonprofits Achievement in Innovation Award.

Seacology is currently seeking educators, parents and students interested in joining their free Adopt-an-Island program, which educates students about the threats facing islands on both an environmental and humanitarian level.  Teachers will be sent pictures and background information on the project of your choice, and can then discuss the project with students and develop fundraising strategies to support the project.  Join Changents.com as a backer to reply to this action request and get involved!

Link [Changents] + [Seacology]

Featured Change Agent: The Canary Project is Helping the World Visualize Global Warming

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week, we’re featuring ‘The Canary Project’, which aims to spread awareness about global warming through artwork and visual media.  The Canary Project was created by husband and wife team Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris, a couple with dramatically different backgrounds who began working together toward this common goal.  Ed, a former partner in a private investigation firm working for NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, certainly didn’t expect to quit his job to produce artwork with his wife.  But, that’s how it happened.

Susannah is a photographer who has long been drawn to landscapes, and how humans can find so much emotional meaning in photos of places they’ve never even been to. Susannah takes photographs of places all over the world that have been impacted by climate change, recently traveling to Antarctica and Peru. She has also photographed places where she and Ed have noted efforts to adapt to and/or fight climate change. Susannah and Ed believe that climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, and one that needs to be publicized.  They’ve been showing their photography in clubs and other venues in New York for years, but wanted the message to reach much further.

Soon, Susannah and Ed realized that they needed more than just photographs to capture the attention of the world.  They began working with artists, writers and scientists on collaborations that led to The Canary Project in its current form.  The Canary Project has spent this summer shooting innovative renewable energy projects in Spain, talking to artists and designers working on sustainability issues in Barcelona, and hooked up with fellow Change Agents ‘The Big Green Bus’ in San Francisco.  They launched ‘Green Patriot Posters’, an effort to create positive, strong images that urge sustainability action similar to WWII-era posters that urged team spirit.

Check out this video introduction of The Canary Project:

The Canary Project is currently seeking climate change-related artwork, and help with their ‘Green Patriot’ project.  They’re also asking supporters to sign up for wind energy and support at www.newwindenergy.com/canary.  To see the rest of The Canary Project’s action opportunities, check out their Changents page.

Help Susannah and Ed spread this very important message across the globe.  Join Changents today as a backer.  You can support them as a donor, publicity generator, advocate, fan or active volunteer.  Learn more about The Canary Project and view the rest of Susannah and Ed’s videos at Canary-Project.org.

Link [Changents] + [The Canary Project]

Featured Change Agent: Debrianna and David Mansini-Forlano Give Their Green Tips

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week’s featured change agents are Debrianna and David Mansini-Forlano, a couple who don’t just talk about making changes in their lives, they live it.  The Mansini-Forlanos’ goal is simple: they’re working on making their lives as green as possible, and they want to share it with the world through the videos they post on CurrentTV.

Video topics cover everything from Earthships to electric cars, with stories and interviews on all different forms of sustainability. The pair, who call themselves ‘twodee’ on CurrentTV, aim to present ‘some of the most interesting, inventive and creative people who are the problem solvers when it comes to climate change, supporting local communities and thinking toward a long term existence on our planet’.

The Mansini-Forlanos are showing everyone how easy it can be to go green in your own life.  They detail their own efforts including their electric car, solar water heater, composting, rain harvesting and all of the cool new gadgets they’ve discovered to aid them in their conservation efforts.  They also loan money to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world through micro-lending organization KIVA.

Check out all of the Mansini-Forlanos’ videos at their page on CurrentTV.  Their YouTube video, below, also packs as many green tips as possible into a 3-minute clip:

Help the Mansini-Forlanos in their efforts to educate the public about going green by joining Changents as a backer.  It’s easy –  once you join Changents, you can help Change Agents by spreading the word, responding to action requests, donating funds, or acting as an advocate.

Featured Change Agent: Chad Pregracke is Cleaning Up America’s Rivers

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

This week we’re putting the spotlight on Chad Pregacke, a change agent who set out to free the rivers he loves so much from the trash that was polluting their shorelines.  Chad, who grew up and spent much time along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, decided at 22 that he wanted to do something about the problem.  So, he started calling around seeking corporate sponsorships, and after many rejections, finally got his first one from Alcoa, Inc.  That helped him get started, and 10 years later, he’s traveling the rivers of America in his barge, cleaning them of trash.

Chad’s organization, Living Lands and Waters, has pulled over 4 million pounds of trash from the nation’s river since he first set out in 1997. LL&W now has 10 employees, a fleet of workboats and barges and many corporate sponsors. They’ve engaged thousands of people in river cleanups all over the U.S., and continue to work toward their mission of river cleanup, riverbottom restoration, educational workshops, Adopt-A-River-Mile and the Million Trees project.

Living Lands and Waters goes one step further in their efforts by giving away a million fruit and nut bearing hardwood trees to help restore watershed ecosystems.  The trees are offered in the hopes that communities will be able to get rid of invasive species and instead provide food and shelter for wildlife, and preserve the riverbottom ecosystems.

Check out this video clip from Big Ideas for a Small Planet, where Chad talks about Living Lands and Waters’ efforts.

Chad and Living Lands and Waters are actively seeking volunteers to help them in their current crusade, which is helping to restore the Midwest areas that were affected by this year’s flood.  See the Chad Pregracke Changents Action Opportunities page for more information.

Living Lands and Waters also hosts community cleanups, educational workshops and tree-plantings throughout the Midwest, and occasionally in other locations.  Join Changents as a backer or contact Living Lands and Waters by emailing madeline@livinglandsandwaters.org for more information.

As a Changents backer, you can offer your assistance in any way you can: as a volunteer right out there on the rivers, sponsors, advocates and publicity generators.  Even if you only have a few minutes of your day to spare, you can help get Living Lands & Waters’ message out so they can continue cleaning up our rivers.

Featured Change Agent: Agent 350 is Building a Global Climate Movement

Each week, EarthFirst.com is featuring a standout Change Agent from the social change platform, Changents.com. Today’s featured Change Agent is Jamie Henn, also known as Agent 350.

Jamie Henn wants you to remember one very important number: 350. He and his team at 350.org are working to spread their message – and this number – across the planet to fight global warming. What’s the significance of the number 350? It’s the number of parts per million that we need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to. Climate experts say that’s the magic number that can help us start reversing the damage we’ve done to the earth.

Jamie’s mission is to get everyone in the world aware of that number, and actively working to reach it – together, as citizens of the earth. The 350.org team is using the internet to crowd source cutting edge ideas as well as volunteers who can help them raise money, spread the buzz and turn 350 from a concept into reality.

This 23-year-old first became inspired to start 350.org as a college activist. He helped start the 2007 Step it Up campaign at Middlebury College in Vermont, which inspired people to gather around the U.S. on April 14th, 2007 in the name of cutting carbon emissions. The project, which encouraged cutting 80% of carbon emissions by 2050, soon became entwined with the 2008 presidential campaign and gained a lot of much-needed publicity for their cause. Jamie didn’t want Step it Up to be a one-time deal, though – he felt like there was still so much work to be done, and he wanted to be on the front lines to fight global warming.

There are many ways to participate in the 350 movement – even the busiest of people can find an opportunity to help out. Right now, Agent 350 has Action Opportunities on the Changents site that range from a crafting competition to helping spread their new video on YouTube, which you can view below.

Want to help Agent 350 spread the word about climate change and how we can all do our part to get carbon levels down to that all-important number? Join Changents as a backer and act as a publicity generator, fan, investor or advocate. There are so many ways to help, and each backer puts Agent 350 that much closer to their goal.

Featured Change Agent: Reverb Greening Up the Music Industry

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

Today’s featured change agent is Reverb, a non-profit organization that aims to clean up the music industry’s notorious wastefulness and pollution. Adam Gardner, Reverb’s founder, is a musician himself, and long complained to his environmentalist wife, Lauren, about the impact of his band’s tours. That’s when they came up with the idea of Reverb, and their first two projects were the Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette’s ‘Au Natural’ tour in 2004. They’ve since worked with bands like the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys.

Check out this video of Adam Gardner talking about Reverb:

So, what exactly does Reverb do? Essentially, they help bands green up virtually any aspect of their tours, from running their buses on biodiesel to setting up recycling programs and going carbon neutral. They’ve helped bands make their merchandise eco-friendly, reduced waste and offered solar chargers for fans’ electronic devices.

From Reverb’s story on Changents:

Since 2004, we’ve greened 50 tours and 754 events, reduced over 38,000 tons of carbon dioxide, substituted over 265,000 gallons of biodiesel for conventional diesel, and reached over 5 million fans. Did you know that 80 percent of the carbon footprint associated with any tour comes from fans traveling to and from the show?!

While we’re helping bands and fans, we’re also working with more than 1,500 environmental non-profits to promote their messages and campaigns. What’s unique about Reverb is that we have one foot solidly in the environmental community and one foot solidly in the rock world.

For us, it’s about getting the tens of thousands of fans like you that bands are reaching every night to do a little something in their lives, even if it’s simply switching to a reusable water bottle. We’re also encouraging carpooling so fans will reduce their carbon footprints. Concerts are a perfect place to do car sharing – you’re all arriving and leaving at the same time. We’re trying out cool stuff like giving primo parking spaces to DMB concertgoers who motor to the show with at least four in a car.

Reverb’s ‘Eco Villages’ are an attraction themselves at shows, with a festival-like atmosphere and plenty of opportunities for music fans to learn about things like carbon offsetting, register to vote, win cool stuff and check out the latest green technologies. Fans can also get some help from reverb in offsetting their own carbon through the Fan Carbon Offset Program. They’ve partnered with PickupPal to help fans carpool to and from shows.

Want to help Reverb and have a lot of fun at the same time? Join their legion of volunteers and supporters through Changents and help them out with action requests like getting access to biodiesel in various cities, commenting on their blog, checking out their featured videos and helping them out at concerts (you can get free tickets!).

Link [Changents] + [Reverb] + [PickupPal]

Featured Change Agent: Brad Corrigan Fighting Poverty in Nicaraguan Trash Dump

Each week, EarthFirst.com will be featuring a new ‘Change Agent’ from Changents.com, a social media site that connects people who are doing good in the world with a support system of advocates, donors, publicity generators and fans.

Today’s featured Change Agent is Brad Corrigan, a musician whose unusual journey toward social change began when his band, Braddigan, was asked to perform at a benefit concert in the US for an orphanage in Nicaragua. Brad wasn’t content with merely playing the concert – he traveled to Nicaragua to see the orphanage firsthand, and the experience changed his life.

Brad was driven through a city trash dump by a tour guide, and was amazed at the sight of people living in squalor right there amongst the refuse. He visited several more times, snapping photos in amazement, and at one point a little girl ran up to the car and knocked on the window. What happened next launched Brad’s commitment to help the people of the Managua, Nicaragua trash dumps:

The girl literally dragged him from the car and with a proud smile introduced him to her family and showed him their one-room house (made from corrugated metal and other scraps). That day changed the course of Brad’s life — in March 2007 he founded Love Light and Melody to combat the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of the extreme poverty in this community, which is now his home away from home.

Through Love, Light and Melody Brad is fighting to battle the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of extreme poverty. The organization’s goal is to identify and meet the immediate physical needs, raise awareness about trash dump communities and fight social injustice through music and the arts. They’re actively working to develop job opportunities for these people, and establish a secure and sustainable landfill elsewhere in Managua. They’re helping an elementary school located in the depths of the trash dump with food, recreation and art classes for the children and setting up a property in Managua to serve as a vocational school.

If you’d like to help Love, Light and Melody achieve these goals and more, see Brad’s Change Agent page at Changents.com and join to become one of his backers. You can offer financial, moral or physical support or help Brad get his message out to the masses. You can also learn more about current projects at the Love, Light and Melody website.

Link [Changents] + [Love, Light & Melody]