The Power of One

Everyone talks about saving the world, but how many are willing to risk everything--comfort, career, even life itself--while trying? In this Los Angeles Times Magazine special issue, we bring you the stories of four people whose individual efforts on behalf of their causes have required extraordinary determination and personal sacrifice. Whether you agree with them or not, it’s hard not to be inspired by the passion, compassion and commitment of those rallying to the cry on activist Julia Butterfly Hill’s favorite shirt . . . “Do Something.”