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if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we'll come to you 808 to one 4,000 with everything that's going on these days, it is sometimes easy to miss the dramatic positive changes that are happening in the role across commerce and technology, health and the arts vast improvements are taking home driven mostly by ordinary people who don't often make headlines but they sure do make a difference. >> and tonight, you'll meet them. this is champions for change. welcome the champions for change. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. >> in the next hour, you're going to meet some really innovative people. >> each one quietly reshaping old ideas and dramatically

improving the way we all live our lives. >> later, i'll introduce you to my champion for change but first, we're going to hit the waves with one of hawaii is renowned surfers who also happens to be a top scientist he's inspiring a new way for researchers and everyone else to look at the ocean it's a familial relationship that we have as native hawaiians with the coral reef, we have a creation story that emphasizes life, really starts with the coral it's like greatest grandmother my name is cliff go bono. >> i'm from ela, hawaii and i'm a surfer and a scientist as this one beat, one big lego lab is a science research group essentially, but we're not the average scientists where a bunch of surfers and skater is an artist's we developed to protect our ocean and we provided to communities, we

need the lumps. i've come to realize that some of the most creative visuals are not necessarily formally trained in academia and not to say those degrees aren't important. i've just filed especially here in the islands, there's so much creativity get intelligence at surrounded by being a part of nature we met many years ago and we shared a feeling that in the conventional science framework, you were expected to be very one track cliffs renowned surfer, i loved to fish, serve skateboard like all these things that we kind of had the hide as being parts of ourselves you see all these little man dryness so yeah. and so early on in that academic journey, we sort of valid like have we ever get to the position that we have phds? and let's do it differently if you have a particular skill set that can help us develop, take now the g to protect our ocean, whether they're artists who also love chemistry, or whether they're musicians who also

enjoy doing statistics. >> the weirder you are, the more we want you here. >> we wanted to create the world roles greatest underwater observatory, which was ambitious for sure, but we love a good challenge over one-and-a-half million people watch this state. >> we should be able to see john panini of the camera it's good to know, good wipe down the heart of it is a camera that streams live 24/7 right away, we started capturing wildlife interactions in an organisms that are typically never seen when there's a human and they environment coral reefs are foundational to stabilize an ecosystem stump there are estimates that by the year 2050, up to 80% of the coral reefs could be lost. so

we have this ambitious goal over the next six years to map 1 million reefs by 2030 now we want to get there is by training 10,000 mappers with a simple iphone or gopro. anyone can do it i like to think about my ancestors who i've never met, but they were thinking about me seven generations before me. and i want to make sure that seven generations this down the road can enjoy what a beautiful place. we have today tomorrow while the ocean is majestic, it can also be dangerous and powerful. >> there aren't many natural forces stronger than a hurricane but a mother's protective instincts might just be one of those forces cnn's chief climate correspondent bill, we're meta mom on a mission with a new way to fortify homes against storms the most powerful storm ever to make landfall on the florida panhandle. the window to evacuate wait. is closed. >> i remember watching tv and

thinking if this stays on the same path, we're not going to make it and it's too late to leave. i'm originally from seattle, washington, and i met my husband up there. i was bartending and he was playing fresnel football for the seattle seahawks, we were having our first baby and so we purchased a home on the gulf coast right outside of destin. we had ava, my first baby girl when hurricane michael hit 12 weeks later doors stay away from windows so when code actually where i live is about 115 miles an hour. >> and hurricane michael was well beyond that already, the storm continued to shift. and then unfortunately hit mexico city beach where it was complete and total devastation and absolutely heartbreaking. the next morning when i woke up, there was a fire in me that this isn't right. i can't live from june to october every single year. >> hold the thing that a storm does not come and kill me and my my kids. >> and so driven purely by desire to protect her own family. >> and that rubin became an accidental pioneer in the field

of disaster proofing, destruction. he had no experience in construction or business of this sort at all. >> no. >> i went down this rabbit hole of how do we build a 45 structure? >> some of that, and that's church brought up, emma doing or m2, 40 year-old italian company created by an engineer who discovered a really easy to construct that's it. >> build a home i could stand up to an earthquake. basically came up with a styrofoam and steel mesh sandwich on concrete bread. first you make these panels. any shape you want brown, straight. it could be a roof that could be stairs, it could be a park bench. it could be an airport. >> and then it is covered with scramble concrete would these panels have that's great. >> is that they're way more waterproof then traditional construction tickets. so if you see that building over there, the roofs not even finished, it's not even waterproofed and it just rained like three days in a row and not one droplet got into the second floor? we have a 250 mile an hour wind

rating, tours 50 yeah which they're actually has never been hurt. right? that would be a category yeah there's never been a hurricane that passed before as a climate reporter slash dad, i tend to measure global trends against the lifetime of my kids and just in the four years since my little boy, river was born, there have been over at separate billion-dollar disasters. just in the us as the planet over heats under a blanket of fossil fuel pollution it is clear the way we think about shelter has to evolve. >> i think people are hungry for something different. and i think as a construction community there's, there's enough paint full coming up in the next-generation that really want to learn these new innovative things what we saw over and over again, protecting family. >> that's a powerful motivator when it comes to innovation. and when we come back, we're going to meet such a family they built this thriving business from the ground up specifically designed to make

sure they're autistic son and other people on the spectrum can really shy jalen ian's verjee presented by charles schwab bone. your tomorrow. go to cnn.com slash champions to learn about the pioneers used the encouraged grit and creativity to move society forward and exciting and inspiring ways trees. >> don't have hearts, but they do have something like a heartbeat every. night, a tree gets a little bit beggar, and every day when the sun's on its leaves, it actually shrinks just a teeny bit and that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure with the tree time so i'm gonna go ahead and hit these

two tree tags that's pretty well in there start the tree tag right? so this is row 21, tree nine i'm graham hine co-founder and ceo of the plant hi, i'm roger hi in grams, younger brother and cto new trees can't cry out for help. so how do we get? they have this tree tag on them? yeah, so we give them a tree tag and now they can ask for help. >> the real challenge is, how do we look at the data from millions and millions of trees together we spent a long time figuring out how to collect data from the ocean as a completely different environment. >> but it's a really similar technical problem one of my fondest memories is roger in the ghraieb cranking away on nuts and bolts on the way glider. this is the pressure activated relief.

>> and dad with a foam surfboard carving away at it, covered in phone dust there a wave letters, every ocean at the plant ringing data back as we speak our values really come from our parents. let's ones next dad's invented airplanes, wheels a lunar rover, and snow vehicles. he's still an inventor at heart and we have an error it at that from him are mom i think has always been trying to get us outside. >> she just loves outdoors, which really led us to create things which could help the environment so, how long do you think these trees are trees are the lungs and he planted with the plan. our mission is to help keep the world's kreiz healthy think of us as a connector for the tree universe to a cloud and ai, which shows that one this transition from

being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet is something that i feel really passionately about. welcome back the champions for change you don't wind experts can find a variety of nuances in single bottle. but at the same time, there's never been much diversity among the people running the industry. but now a bold winemaker is fermenting some big changes in the business traveling wine or so synonymous with each other more african american steamers begin to see the world and it had these great experiences. wine is becoming much more of a pinpoint or passion point for their lives.

>> the age of the old white man drinking wine is over. we don't start to make this industry look the way the world works. it's not going to go much further. >> there's a berry and wine that goes beyond just what's in the bottle. there's a communication disconnect, there's a lapse in the two entities knowing how to speak to each other, be in the black community and the wine industry i launched a brand with the intention to really just diversify the one inch feet. we believe we are the connector. the fet wind company down is the number one imported luxury french wine the company from the south of france i started in the business in 2000, 1,000 that i was always one of only one in the room from a black person's stamp or a black male in particular it's super rare to find black owned wind companies in the us there's less than 1% how do we help be a steward for this changing every aspect from nine industry and bring in more people of color and especially more black americans into this trillion dollar industry. after the post

george floyd movement. and we saw a lot of racial injustice in the world. i was made aware of the route spine and for me they shared a mission with that. we had or i had which was how do we make the industry more diverse? >> i appreciate all of you for coming tonight and support in our organization. the roots fine is creating a way for people of color get the education, to get the mentor ship so that they are ready to be out working and so get a career in this business. >> as part of our participation in the root spawn, we are huge supporters of the rooted in france initiative my winery and winds are in france and i know the beauty of the old world to hear that they were wanting to send students to burgundy work in this historic wine region and have that experience. it was important to be able to foster for minorities, especially black kids who wanted to learn more about wine to give them that cultural experience. of france, while also giving them the experience of working in the wine industry a lot of people think i'm over there just tasting wine and

frolicking through the vineyards. >> you're doing accounting, logistics, supply chain, marketing, things of that nature with one and spirits based case studies, dong nai hey, the roots fun. they're giving opportunities in terms of employment internships mentorship, a network or community for me to see these kids come back and then further themselves to now go work in wine is amazing. from day one. it's been our goal to disrupt the industry and take down the big boys. and when you have that sort of mission in place, you recognize the underdogs and you want to give opportunities to the underdogs. and we will forever foster those programs and initiatives they give a voice and a platform to those that are not expected to succeed and you know that expectation to succeed can also allude people on the autism spectrum, especially in the workplace. >> but one family designed a car wash specifically with

neurodivergent workers in mind. and now they're concept is cleaning up in the creation arising tide. hey guys, doesn't go as day. it was, love and duty i'm rising tide is to empower people with autism and related disability through gainful employment in the car wash into string andrew is my younger brother and andrew has autism. >> andrews diagnosis came when he was about two-and-a-half to three years old as he got a little older, it became obvious that in order for andrew to to live a full adult life, we'd have to take action so you start to say to yourself, what's going to happen when i'm gone. >> house sitting in a car wash one day, they said andrew can

do that so i decided i would create a business, help andrew where he could work he needed community be surrounded like people like him this truly is a fail let me business so andrew is yet the makes his lunch and he's ready to go to work andrew has a life, he has an identity flavor, rising tide was amazing for me about 80% of our staff is on the autism spectrum. >> the first thing that we do is try to look at the workplace through our employees eyes. we designed to paddle. now, instead of having a lot of difficult social interactions, we have a smooth process, both our team and our customers. >> we clarified the workplace for our team members through a variety of systems and we tried to embed training into the workplace wherever we can if a

team member forgets how to do something, they can quickly scan a qr code, review the training, and get back to work. we use color codes as much as possible. tube welcome to rising tide car wash. here, i feel like i've just been able to to learn more and grow as a person and as a professional, i want to be a manager my new, my new goal is to travel play is money. >> it is an accepting place, is like a proof that people with autism can leave, you can choose he noem judge, witches by one certain aspect of autism because everybody with autism is different our team members are incredibly talented for this world has not been designed hi and for them my hope is that they find the confidence that they can do the things they want to do in this

world. >> empowering society. one person at a time that is a consistent theme among our champions for change. and after the break and engineers breakthrough in artificial intelligence is now helping veterans who lost limbs hold on to hope trees don't have hearts but they do have something like a heartbeat every night, a tree gets a little bit bigger and every day it actually shrinks just a teeny bit. >> and that motion, which is less than a human hair, is what we measure with the tree tag all right, so i'm going to put these to treat tags so, this is row 21, tree nine trees are the lungs the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the world's trees healthy. >> think of us as a connector for the tree universe to the

cloud and take ai from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet something that i feel really passionately about engineered to minimize noise. >> and built for adventure which can also be your own quiet kanban in the ones the fully electric qa and chime an electric vehicle that recharges you how we get there? matters organic soil from miracle grow has grown me the best garden i have ever had. >> good soil and you get good results. >> look at that. the broccoli was

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help a lot of ukrainians i'm originally from ukraine i left one day before the war started. we started as probiotics because we believe robotics will unlock many technologies for all humanity to me longer and feel more active life as per hand, is a bianna can't and it can give back money functions as per hand, understands user behavior and helps to choose right grip and advance because of ai. also, it detects muscle activity since my start off working in prosthetics, i was always looking for a product that will be more reliable in aesthetically when v matt v is jima v, huge potential off

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opportunity to go back inhaled the my job i feel very blessed that i can see people being restored functions that they lost during this injury it is hard to beat involved in all these stories, but his wait, easier. when you see how it helps people it is always inspiring to see medical technology helping people but, not all breakthroughs last forever. >> one of my biggest worries as a doctor is the rapidly growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics it's a modern-day problem. >> but one champion is now turning to an ancient source to help solve it. plants are everything there. what provide

our food, our housing materials, or musical instruments are clothing and our medicines when i look at a plant, i'm looking to its chemistry and trying to understand the secrets that may unveil new medicines the use of plants as medicines go goes back to the very origins of humanity, is 34,000 species have been documented as being used in some form of traditional medicine get scientists have only looked at around 1,000 of these plants i've traveled to some incredible places across the world in my search for nature's next medicines were looking for the next type of antibiotic the work that i do is deeply personal to me. i was born with multiple congenital defects of my skeletal system, which required the amputation of my leg at the age of three i

developed a hospital acquired infection that nearly took my life luckily, back in the 1980s, we still had antibiotics that worked against some of these really bad bacteria today. we're not so fortunate alive are antibiotics have been around for a long time, and the pathogenic bacteria continue to develop resistance to them unless you come up with a continuous supply of new antibiotics acting by new mechanisms, it's not just enough to have a new antibiotic over 1 million people die every year due to untreatable infections and so i've dedicated my life to searching for new medicines from nature to combat the worst of these drug resistant infections we collect plants in the field. >> we pressed them and deposit them into an herbarium, which is like a library of life we

also take samples back to the lab where we pull out the chemistry for the plant we've discovered molecules and these plants that are very effective in the treatment of the worst drug resistant bacteria syria, including mersa or drug resistant staph the next phase of our research involves moving these discoveries from the lab two human clinical trials, we could see a scenario in 102030 years where many infections are not responsive to any type of antibiotic and for that reason, dr. waves work is essential to help prevent that from happening around 45% of all flowering plants all at risk of extinction we're losing vast opportunities to alleviate human suffering and to treat disease this is not just about saving nature for nature sake. >> this is about saving

humanity. >> there's a lot of work that has to be done from public health to personal addiction after the break, you're going to meet my champion for change and see his powerful approach to fighting teen substance abuse trees. >> don't have hearts but they do have something like a heartbeat every night, a tree gets a little bit bigger and every day you can actually shrinks just a teeny bit and that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure with the tree tag all right, so i'm gonna go ahead and put these to treat tags so this is row 21, tree nine trees are lungs of the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the world's trees healthy. think of us as a connector for the tree universe to the cloud out and to ai from

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to three-to-one, three-to-one today i learned thoughts on capitol hill welcome back to champions for change. i'm dr. sanjay gupta tonight. >> we are spotlighting visionaries we're sparking huge improvements, sometimes with one big idea. >> and sometimes through countless small ones. >> our next champion is weaving community and providing warmth to society's most vulnerable what would you do if you ended up having a family member experience homelessness that was the question that i really was wrestling with. what when my mom ended up on the streets,

when i tried to help her and or reach out to her, she kept saying, i'm on my own journey with all of the emotion and all of the frustration that i was working through, it inspired me to do something i started my company stock pop and ashes, but the goal of for every blanket that we sell will donate a blanket to your local homeless shelter these blankets over here these are all box that blankets donation blankets that are going to be going out to shelters this week week so far, almost a half, 1 million has been designated to homeless shelters around the united states the. >> people that, come in here, you don't have someone don't have anything. these blanket they helped tape life. they really do there. was a, time where i just drove by people on the street and whispered under my breath, goh get a job. >> but now there's an actual reality where i see the people with dignity now and. that's

what my mom inspired in my life now when i do blank, it drops every once in a while. my mom comes and joins me. she's gone through an entire recovery from coming off the streets getting sober. and now she's helping people when it facility on their recovery journeys i think the most important thing is to see that a homeless person or person in struggle is somebody's mother or uncle, or father, or son, or brother these problems can happen to any of us all of our blankets come in these boxes, make a local impact and we want our packaging to encourage people to take action in their community so they can scan this qr code and find ways to get involved and they can also fill this box up with items and donate to their local shelter. a lot of people want to make a difference, but they don't know where to start. and so we created love your city.org for people to search your city find organizations and have the

ability to donate financially and you can also fill out a volunteer form and get involved. if we all come together and do a small part we're going to make a huge impact addiction is a major reason that many people end up living on the street. >> there is some good news on that front the amount of drugs now being consumed as actually gone down but the drugs themselves have also become stronger and deadlier and easier to get even for the very young as youngest, ten years old. and that's where my champion for change steps up. he guides recovering teenage attics at a very special school that i visited in colorado welcome to 52 at high school, we are the largest recovery high school in the country we serve students who struggle with substance abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, and other destructive hey, years. and we teach kids how to live without drugs and alcohol. one de at a time i am key so

today's topic is about getting sober. >> how i got high to be honest, i was miserable and actor predictions pretty much every day every morning starts with something i think known as boat. be opened. and authentic together to sit and listen to that meeting is one of the most powerful things i think i've ever done. >> i remember this period of time where it was like if i wasn't high i like was going to kill myself. >> there's this quote that said that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. the opposite of addiction is human connection. and that's what, that time period really is are you breaking new ground with a program like this that's the hope. >> i think a lot of other recovery high schools do a lot of clinical pieces. and that's cool. >> but i'm sorry. >> another 16-year-old that looks like me. that sounds like

me. that now has a year, 18 months, two years sober, sharing with me what they did to get sober is better than any doctor or clinical person can ever do to help them so how much of your own personal life experience is part of this role for you. >> i mean, it's everything i started. my journey in active addiction as early as 14, 15 years old have five felonies today. felonies that i acquired while under the influence of drugs and alcohol and active addiction it's hard to reconcile the man that's sitting in front of me with all that yeah. >> are you the exception to the rule or are you the rule? >> there's a lot of us out here who have recreated our lives in recovery. but it is a part of my story and it is very important that i share those very terrible and inhumane things that i did. an active addiction. so we can give hope to others that they can recover to i know every single kid i can tell you about their story.

i can tell you what they've been through when they do make mistakes or things do happen, not in them up about it and loving on them, supporting them and figure out what do we need to do next? to help them get to the next level i started drinking and using when i was 13 or smoking crack and fentanyl and drinking and ended up getting nar canned and was in the hospital. >> keith was like a really big support through all of that and would just continuously show me that he loved me and cared about me. and i've been sober since then and now i have 17 months congratulations for that. >> thank you. >> do you dream about the future? >> yeah. >> a few years ago, i didn't think i'd be alive and so it was really weird turning 18 and having plans to go to college and just all of the things that i get to do now at one point, i didn't know of lucy was going to live or die. and now i know lucy is going to do whatever

she wants to do in this world. every single one of these kids gives us all hope today that no matter how hard your life is, things can get better. one day at a time i don't think i will ever forget lucy's face. >> or stop thinking about her future after the break, you're going to meet a fashion designer who found inspiration in a row, native american roots and in the process lifted up for community champions for change is presented by charles schwab bone, your tomorrow go to cnn.com slash champions to learn about the pioneers using courage, grit, and creativity to move society forward and exciting and inspiring ways trees, don't have hearts but they do have something like a heartbeat every. night a tree

gets a little bit bigger. >> and every day when the sun's on its leaves, it actually shrinks just a teeny belt. and that motion which has less than a human hair is what we measure with the treatment all right, so i'm gonna go ahead and add these to treat tags that's pretty well-known there start the, tree tag, right so this is row 21, tree nine i'm graham hind, co-founder and ceo of the plant. >> i'm roger high-end brands, younger brother and cto land trees can't cry out for house. so how do we get is they have this tree tag on them? yeah. so we give them a tree tag and now they can ask for help. >> the real challenge is, how do we look at the data from millions and millions of trees together we spent a long time

figuring out how to collect data for me ocean as a completely different environment, but it's a really similar, a technical problem. one of my fondest memories is roger in the garage cranking away on nuts and bolts on the way glider. this is the pressure activated relief. >> and dad with a foam surfboard carving away at it, covered in phone dust there a wave letters in erosion of the planet, bringing data back as we speak our values really come from our parents let's ones next. >> dad's invented airplanes, wheels for lunar rover and snow vehicles still an inventor at heart and we have an that from him are mama i think has always been trying to get us outside. she just loves the outdoors, which really led us to create things which could help the environment so how long do you

think these trees are? >> trees are the lungs of the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the world's trees healthy think of us as a connector for the tree universe to a cloud and ai cliches that one this transition from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet it's something that i feel really passionately about like this. >> wow, you want to get back on back i'm bringing up 2.9% apr financing for up to 48 months on the gv at exclusively at your local genesis retailers so what's the codes as that's fine?

>> for seven? >> well, that's all working. >> that's really needs to pay. >> we're gonna get into me. okay. what's not present speak with her say you are a valued customer centered we can go in the window meanwhile, at a vrbo when other vacation rentals leave you hanging, try one where you can reach a human in about a minute as a former prosecutor, cnn's chief legal analyst, laura coates has seen lots of great public servants. >> but her champion for change never worked in a courtroom. instead, he presides over a dentist chair, giving back to the community in a way that's close to laura's heart you doing man? >> good. >> he does so much more than clean teeth also, he teaches,

he motivates. he's like a therapist he's. so much more than a dentist you have demonstrated philosophy of providing care and respect and dignity to anyone who needs your help. i do what i do because this is what god put me on this earth for i'm actually the daughter of a dentist who really devoted his life to public service and ensuring dental care was given to people who are most in need. >> he would go into the prisons he really believed in meeting people where they were you also wanted to go into the prisons. >> i understand as well the only to provide that service, but he recognize the many ways that why should they be denied the dignity of care? >> there's a shortage of diminished in prisons around the country. most inmates, i say 9.9% of them they really are grateful that they get to get out of pain. if i could be

courteous and kind and respectful and do my job and treat you good. good regardless of who you are where you are. >> that's my goal this is new foundations home for children. >> we have kids in the foster care system. we have kids in the juvenile justice system. he serves and underserved population. he's not making a lot of money off these kids. he comes because he feels lead to be here i got here around 2019 because i had other foster home that was at and that didn't work out as she cleans my teeth. he talks to me about my ambitions he remembers everything i tell and i'm not his only client so that's mind-blowing to know the backup plan of seed is somebody unknowingly for just doing my job, but the way that i do it. >> it will influence them to make good decisions and be more productive citizen he's absolutely creating a brighter future for these kids after he graduated from howard, he practiced with me for about nine years my hazel, she's a

reason that amr dennis today and my goal was to make sure that don dre knew that wife everyone meets, be treated with dignity and respect my father's work inspired me to be a champion for social justice and you know, i am a black woman in america intergenerational wealth has often alluded intergeneration. >> but what has not alluded us is the passing down of the knowledge of the community service that imparts a sense of morality and justice within us. and so to hear that he was inspired by his aunt and to feel compelled within himself to k forward is the highest form of intergenerational wealth and in that, we are

family knowing who you are and paying it forward. our next champion for change also did just that. when this fashion designer connected with or navajo heritage, she hung up or corporate career, she started her own label and she changed the fabric of modern indigenous art everything we do here at the shop is based on working with vintage things that have already been here on the planet so that's a way just for me to really approach sustainability from an indigenous land i was an active wear designer for major corporations. >> i decided to leave corporate fashion and start my own company. back in 2015, i re-branded in 2021 to the name for cancer my indigeneity has been really a big part of how the brand has evolved growing

up in indiana and a very rural area, being adopted did into a white family, but being native, there was always a void and as i got older, it became a stronger need for me to really oh, identity so i've found my mom and birth family who's mom? it's just been this continual bernie of learning more about all those sides of my family is in their stories. >> that's it came with understanding it's not just saying i'm part of my community, but actually putting that into motion and taking action, it's just wonderful to find ways to be part of a positive change in our community where a young people, a lot of them don't know people within creative industries that could help them. >> so i think that is my job as someone that comes from the outside that comes back with

different gifts is to use that to create britches i met amy or the mip deal three, the navajo cultural honors program. >> she just wants to flip this scored on nato bar, native fashion and that allows me to freedom to kinda step outside the box there's so many makers that haven't had space and other places to sell that we open our house to that opportunity for them to get a start it's a really beautiful compilation of all different tribes coming together in the shop. >> fun part of my job is to revolutionize the performance space for indigenous peoples please never take this. i love this. it's a new way to reinvest in our young people because instead of creating events that make money for the event organizer is to create events that distribute to the

performers that creatives that are part of that show and then i've been in the fashion industry for a long time and to actually be in this place to honor my indigeneity and to practice reciprocity for everything that we take, we find a way to give back so we are a sustainable brand that simply found ways to be of service through everything i do, through my creative world up next, you'll meet two more champions for change who are now repurposing materials in amazing ways. one was restoring wetlands by turning old glass in the new shorelines. and another, who leads a group of artists, their talent and the media they use is inspiring a movement champions for is presented by charles schwab bone, your tomorrow. goh to cnn.com slash champions to learn about the pioneers using

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what we effect excellently referred to as glass mountain glass half-full started like most good ideas, over a bottle of wine we realized that like every other glass bottle in the state of louisiana, it would end up in a landfill because we didn't have adequate glass recycling system glass comes from sam. >> so we hatched a plan to recycled glass back in the sand sand is the second most exploited resource after water the first thing we thought of was coastal restoration because that that's where sand is needed in our state of louisiana. we are losing land at such an incredibly fast rate about a football fields worth of land every 100 minutes are coaston, louisiana is our livelihood we have pickup programs and we have dropped

off programs where folks can bring their glass us, it'll be crushed into a mixture of sand and gravel separated by size to date, we have recycled more than 6 million pounds of glass and we will don about six coastal restoration projects five, the mu is a lot of open water and we hope in the future that it's restored to a healthy wetland. be partnered with a different and scientists and engineers there to the safety and the feasibility of doing this. and now we're really translating that lab research into action we have a restoration makes out today and we'll be using it there'll these islands and plants, grasses, and trees we have a ton of partners on the ground to help with restoration projects. arthur from cicd is one of those partners. since they're really focused on work in the lower ninth cse, de settle for community engagement in development was created as a

tool for rebuilding of a community that was devastated by hurricane katrina. disaster preparedness is so sick again, here in new orleans, it's always been a very separable community to hurricanes very foreign glass, half full, and cicd we've come together to say, we're going to address this issue maybe at a smaller level but having massive impact a big goal of ours is to be able to replicate what we've done here for other cities and regions. and so our next expansion area is alabama instead of looking at things glass half, empty, wicked things, glass half full to what difference can you make in your community once i realized i can have an impact, felt like i really found what i was supposed to do finally, we have

one more champion for change. who crafts beauty from recycled material in her art but as you're about to see her real talent is bringing out the best and other artists a lot of the people that we worked with, our deem nonviable citizens, which just blows my mind we all are amazing creatures. given the right circumstances passion works is turning upside down. the expectations and the perceived reality of people with developmental differences our passion flowers are made from upcycled newspaper printing plates i love the passion flower yeah. >> every single step of that product is a job we are paying people minimum wage to

manufacturer those. i want to infuse opportunity for our community i had a brother who was institutionalized and as i grew up, i realized that often these spaces were excluded from community. since that time i've been obsessed with the idea of creating space for people to be their best selves her good days or her passion works days. >> she talks more she communicates more. she wants to be part of things more. i've seen her be able to open her mind two different things, and i've seen her art absolutely explode. >> my outlook on life is came show. i feel more competent. why do i reflect it outside i feel happier at one time i was

told years ago that these people would never make anything anybody would want to buy. we have generated over 3 million in sales. >> we have sold over 35,000 passion flowers. >> every product that goes out into the world helps tell our story. and makes people think differently about materials, about people, about regions, passion works is moving society forward this is a, movable model because we have taken it and shared it internationally. we're creating the evidence of what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it setting the example, and lifting humanity up you know, great changes are underway if you just take the time to stop, look and listen they are dreamt up and they are driven by