Co-Being in the United States: the projects changemakers recommend

The selection

• 350.orgWashington DC, USA“They anchored a global movement to a single number. The climate fight got a clear line to hold.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Equal Justice InitiativeMontgomery, USA“Bryan Stevenson says change starts when you get close to injustice. I believe him.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Ford FoundationNew York, USA“They aimed their giving straight at inequality and pulled their money out of fossil fuels. That is leadership, and it should be named.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Hannah ArendtNew York City, USA“Because she insisted on understanding politics as the realm of human plurality and action rather than administration, and because she never stopped asking what makes democratic life possible beyond bureaucratic processes.”Recommended by Alberto Alemanno
• Judith ShklarCambridge, MA, USA“Because she built an entire political theory around “putting cruelty first” as the foundation of liberalism, and because she showed that defending ordinary citizens from arbitrary power - whether public or private - is the core democratic project, not some secondary concern after we’ve sorted out grand constitutional principles.”Recommended by Alberto Alemanno
• Mellon FoundationNew York, USA“They put the arts and the humanities first in what they fund. It takes some nerve, and I respect it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Senseable City Lab (MIT)Cambridge, USA“Carlo Ratti reads the city as a living organism. His work helps us see ourselves inside it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Urban TilthRichmond, California, USARecommended by Rob Hopkins
• World Access for the BlindLos Angeles, USA“Daniel taught himself to see with sound, and now he teaches thousands. It changes what we think a person can learn.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume