A few doors down from my office there's a guy with a ready laugh and a shared love of Macintoshes named Dom Hyde, a philosopher who works on the logic of vagueness among other things. He's also very active in environmental matters, particularly those associated with the D'Aguilar Range, which is a beautiful tall timber forested region just to the northeast of Brisbane, where I live. It also includes the water catchment for Brisbane.
So you might think that when Dom and his friends proposed that this range should be a UNESCO Biosphere, government would fall over itself in protecting this crucial area. Well, you would if you didn't know Queensland politics and the influence of developers here. However, agreement from the councils and State government has been reached, and the proposal is now underway. Congrats to Dom. He's a powerhouse in the face of apathy.
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Three cheers for Dom! We were undergrads together, and even then he was building his couches from leftover beer crates and spare bicycle parts. Sort of took the "well, one thing can just become another thing easy enough" to heart, and in retrospect it all led to activism and vagueness.