Chula Vista

1996 – Brick Award Now renamed as Dosomething Awards[96]
1997–1999 – Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship
1998 – Reebok International Human Rights Award
2000 – International Ashoka Fellowship
2008 – Time Magazine Environmental Hero[97]
2008 – Elle Magazine Green Award
2008 – One of the George Lucas Foundation's "Daring Dozen"
2008 – Hunt Prime Mover Award; Hunt Alternatives Fund
2008 – Campaign for America's Future "Paul Wellstone Award"
2008 – Global Green USA "Community Environmental Leadership" Award
2008 – San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Award
2008 – Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship[98]
2008 – World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader"
2008 – Essence Magazine 25 Most Inspiring African Americans
2009 – Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award[99]
2009 – Eco-Entrepreneur Award, Institute for Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Innovation; Howard University
2009 – Individual Thought Leadership, Energy & Environment Awards; Aspen Institute[100]
2009 - Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World
2010 – NAACP President's Award[9]
2010 – Commonwealth Club of California – Inforum's 21st Century Visionary Award
2010 – Global Exchange Human Rights Award Honoree.[101]
2011 – Ebony Magazine's Power 150
2012 – Rolling Stone Magazine 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done
2013 – The Root Magazine 100 Honorees
2013 – Ebony Magazine's Power 100
2015 – National Urban League's Toyota Clean Energy Honoree[102]
2015 – Environmental Media Association's Green Biz Global Innovator Award[103]
2015 – Rainbow Push Coalition's 2015 Vanguard Award[104]
2015 – David E. Glover Vanguard Award[105]

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”