The story of how a young man becomes a sustainability advocate. We have to realize there is only one earth, one shot to get things right. Part of the One in 8 Million is an oral history project in which a different individual among New York City's 8 million residents is profiled each week of 2009. As Jodi Rudoren, deputy Metro editor, put it in a memo earlier this year: "The criteria for profile subjects are simple: Interesting person. Great talker. Never before mentioned in the NYT."