Rahilla Zafar

Entrepreneurship Program Director, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

Fascinated by the idea of photography, Snapistan co-creator Natasha Noorani decided to use it as a tool to help inspire and show a different side of Pakistan that many living outside of it may never know exists.

Elana Estrin

Features Writer and Public Affairs Representative, Harry Ransom Center and The University of Texas at Austin's College of Fine Arts

Two days after Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured in a Tucson shooting, renowned journalist Bill Moyers found himself sitting in a radiology lab awaiting an MRI for a torn muscle.

Vicki Gass

Senior Associate for Rights and Development at the Washington Office on Latin America

What was more terrible than the civil war of the 1980s and Hurricane Mitch, which ravaged the region in 1998? Tropical Depression 12-E, a storm that dropped more than five feet of water over ten days, forcing 60,000 people into shelters.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Mitt ...

Gernot Wagner

Economist, Environmental Defense Fund and author, 'But Will the Planet Notice?'

How many more extreme weather events will it take for us to realize that it may be better to have an orderly decrease in emissions through predictable laws rather than wildly disruptive natural disasters?

Rick Steves

Writer of European travel guidebooks and host of travel shows on public television and public radio (www.ricksteves.com)

One of the joys of my work is sending travelers to Vernazza. And today I read an email from one Vernazzan who fears they may not rebuild and it could become a ghost town.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's ...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The m...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: EPA, ...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Repub...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coal ...

Rabbi Michael M. Cohen

Author, 'Einstein's Rabbi: A Tale of Science and the Soul'

The road to wholeness after Irene for some was quick and for others longer. Some are still travelers on that journey. The message of the shofar can help remind us not to lose hope along that path.

Peter Hanlon

Senior Research and Policy Analyst, GRACE Communications Foundation

Whether it's the flooded Northeast or drought-stricken Texas, the threats couldn't be more different, but the problems are remarkably the same: Farms are devastated. Power plants shut down. Water supplies are threatened.

Susan Buchanan

Business Writer

The United Houma Nation, with its family tree firmly planted in Louisiana's coastal parishes for the last 300 years, doesn't want to see its centers drown as the wetlands shrink.

Liza de Guia

Founder and Chief Storyteller, food. curated., www.foodcurated.com

"I didn't have time to think about being scared." On August 28th, hundreds of farms in upstate New York were destroyed by massive floods caused by Hu...

Alison Rose Levy

Eco-Health Journalist, Advocate, and Radio Host for the Progressive Radio Network

In these upstate regions in Ulster, Sullivan, and Delaware counties, there's a new breed of organic and sustainable farming.