Carl Ross is a co-founder of Save America's Forests, lobbying relentlessly against the cutting of old growth forests and rallying environmental groups to do joint campaigns with SAF. He has been attacked in the press and confronted in person by angry fellow environmentalists challenging his efforts to unify the movement behind important bills.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington DC Home now: North America, US, Washington DC Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Private citizen Shannen Rossmiller determined after 9/11 to do something. For Rossmiller, that became learning Arabic, researching terrorist tactics, and going online into their networks to extract information the FBI has used to thwart new attacks.
Home when commended: North America, US, Montana Home now: North America, US, Montana Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Matthew Rothman took great amounts of time out of his student life at Brown University to gain the trust of Providence's homeless and to photograph them. Rothman created an exhibit that he set up in Rhode Island's legislature, prompting politicians to vote for a major relief bill.
Home when commended: North America, US, Rhode Island Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Musician Bob Rowe has devoted his talent and his life to enriching the days of people in homes for the elderly, for vets and for the developmentally disabled. His nonprofit Renaissance Enterprises enlists other musicians and entertainers to volunteer with him in this venture, traveling constantly to do their gigs.
Home when commended: North America, US, Michigan Home now: North America, US, Michigan Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dick and Jeanne Roy decided in 1993 that he would give up the law practice that sustained their family's lifestyle and join Jeanne as a fulltime environmental activist. The resulting North West Earth Institute has developed programs that have spread from the Roys' Portland OR base to 650 communities in all 50 states.
Home when commended: North America, US, Oregon Home now: North America, US, Oregon Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dick and Jeanne Roy decided in 1993 that he would give up the law practice that sustained their family's lifestyle and join Jeanne as a fulltime environmental activist. The resulting North West Earth Institute has developed programs that have spread from the Roys' Portland OR base to 650 communities in all 50 states.
Home when commended: North America, US, Oregon Home now: North America, US, Oregon Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dick and Jeanne Roy decided in 1993 that he would give up the law practice that sustained their family's lifestyle and join Jeanne as a fulltime environmental activist. The resulting North West Earth Institute has developed programs that have spread from the Roys' Portland OR base to 650 communities in all 50 states.
Home when commended: North America, US, Oregon Home now: North America, US, Oregon Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Louis Rubio one of the leaders of South San Antonio High School’s Science Club, has braved jeers and teasing from other students to pioneer environmental responsibility in their school and in their city. These young people led massive recycling drives, raised money to plant drought-resistant plants and trees on the school grounds, then planted fruit and nut trees for needy families. (See also Jefferey Jiminez, Michael Reyes, Patricia Arambula and Iris Ybarra.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Texas Home now: North America, US, Texas Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Montreal's Twinkle Rudberg took the tragedy of her husband's murder by a teenaged mugger and turned it into L.O.V.E. (Leave Out ViolencE). LOVE brings perpetrators and victims together to learn about non-violence.
Home when commended: North America, Canada, Quebec Home now: North America, Canada, Quebec Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Howard Ruff of Pleasanton CA used his clout as a well-known financial consultant to secure the arrest of a Bangkok orphanage director and his co-conspirators, men who were sexually abusing the children in the orphanage. Ruff acted despite threats on his life and a significant drain on his income and his time, a drain that continues as he sponsors a new orphanage where the children are safe.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, Utah Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Mary Ruthsdotter and Molly MacGregor of Windsor, California have given up their teaching careers, and invested all their time and money into getting the stories of women’s lives told in the nation's history classes. As founders of the National Women's History Project, the two women have gotten March of each year declared a time for studying women's achievements in schools and colleges across the country.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Casey Ruud and James Simpkin risked their careers to blow the whistle on safety problems at the Hanford nuclear plant in Washington State when they both worked there. Their congressional testimony resulted in Hanford’s nuclear reactor being shut down for safety violations. Ruud and Simpkin were harassed and threatened with demotions, eventually leaving Hanford to try restarting their careers in South Carolina.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Marla Ruzicka, named a Giraffe Hero in 1996 for her early work as a humanitarian, has been killed in Baghdad on her way to aid an Iraqi family. She died as she lived her entire life, helping those in need. Click on her name for the story the Project did about her nine years ago when her path had already headed her toward the amazing work she would do in Afghanistan and Iraq in the too-few years to follow—
Home when commended: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Jack Ryan of Peoria IL, a veteran of 22 years of service as an FBI agent, refused an order to arrest non-violent peace activists for "domestic terrorism." Fired for this display of conscience, Ryan is seeking reinstatement of his pension, and is teaching non-violence at a small college.
Home when commended: North America, US, Illinois Home now: North America, US, Illinois Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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