Within the walls of the MIT Media Lab in Boston, Anirudh Sharma and Nikhil Kaushik invented Air-Ink, a professional art supply made directly from car exhaust and soot. Since they officially began “capturing” pollution in June 2016, Sharma, Kaushik, and the rest of their team at Graviky Labs have cleaned 1.6 trillion liters of air (Source).

Organization: Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. They amplify the power of their millions of members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a healthy world (Source).