"I meet with my board — Martin Luther King, Malcolm, Ella Baker, Mandela. I ask them, am I doing the right thing? And sometimes, they say, 'No.'"

And sometimes, they say, "Yes." Van Jones' guiding board of directors keeps him grounded on his fight for both environmental and social justice. Jones is president of Green For All, and he says that a social problem like poverty can have an environmental solution: Put people to work greening the environment. Majora talks with Jones about his "burn out" moment and the eco-divide he hopes to shrink.

"Tell us what it's like on a typical day to do grocery shopping in the South Bronx."
"It sucks. I mean, there's no other way to put it."

But Zena Nelson decided it didn't have to suck. That her neighbors in the South Bronx shouldn't have to shop for groceries at the convenience store. That they deserved good, fresh food. So Nelson and other community members started a food cooperative to bring fruit and vegetables into the Bronx: the South Bronx Food Cooperative.
 

 "This one guy made me laugh so hard last year.  I pulled up at this gas station... He's a little bit drunk, and he's sitting there at that gas station, and he points a finger at me....He says, 'You're that woman...You get shit done.' I said, 'Can I use that as a reference on one of my grant applications?"

To many, Winona LaDuke is "that Indian woman" who was Ralph Nader's running mate. But she is also someone who fights for native communities, as executive director of Honor the Earth. Majora talks with LaDuke about preserving indigenous taro in Hawaii, reconnecting native kids to food, and building a world for the next seven generations.

 As the first female finance minister of Nigeria, Okonjo-Iweala had a tough road. Her first task? Clean up Nigeria's economy - then ranked the second most financially corrupt government in the world. Okonjo-Iweala went on - amazingly - to do so, and also to get rid of an $18 billion debt. Majora talks to Okonjo-Iweala about why women are such a good investment, and what it will take to get the world to invest in Africa.

 Often called the "Mayor of Hunts Point," his South Bronx neighborhood, Chickie went from doing time in prison to (willingly) picking up trash on the corner. Majora talks to Chickie about his guerilla neighborhood-improvement tactics, and she is reminded how much one person can do by sticking close to home.

Larry Brilliant, who runs Google.org's philanthropic initiatives, has always done his best to embody Google's motto, "Don't be evil." In fact, he might have gone a bit overboard at times — in his pre-Google life, Brilliant became a doctor, meditated for years in a Himalayan village, and helped to eradicate smallpox. Majora talks to him about trying to get a job while wearing a monk's robes, and what Americans just don't get about yoga.