It would be just about impossible to film adventure racers lost in Ecuador’s jungles or trail runners flitting through slot canyons in Death Valley no wider than a doorway. Maybe that’s part of why Doug Myers, a five-time Emmy award-winning director and producer, enjoys such rugged challenges.
Mr. Myers has made a career of filming marquee sporting events. Along with Emmys and being one of ESPN’s first hires back in 1979, his résumé boasts several Olympic Games starting with Seoul in 1988, as well as professional and college sports championships, including Super Bowls, World Series, Stanley Cups, NBA Finals and NCAA Final Fours.
But in his own athletic pursuits, Mr. Myers shuns the spotlight: “I came to multi-sport racing in my mid to late 30s. Before that I was pretty much a softball player with a gym membership.”
Moving to California changed things. “I got caught up in that pervasive health and fitness culture,” Mr. Myers says. “I started with aerobics, then step and spinning, but I’ve always been more an outdoors guy — skiing, hiking, backpacking.”
Another move landed him in outdoors heaven. “Moving across the bridge from San Francisco to Marin County kicked it off. Marin has preserved open space and tons of great trails. On any given day, half the people you see are in bike shorts in either pre- or post-ride mode. And Marin, specifically Mt. Tamalpais, is the birthplace of mountain biking.”

To strike a healthy balance between the Earth and its inhabitants, we need to assess the impact of our everyday behavior on the natural environment and change course. As coordinator of Sustainable Princeton’s steering committee, Diane Landis has made great strides in spreading awareness and prompting residents, businesses/nonprofits, schools and local government to take action.

Before accepting the part-time position last May, Ms. Landis had already dug a path in the right direction as founder of the Princeton School Garden Cooperative, which established gardens as outdoor classrooms in the Princeton public schools. The mother of three also teaches yoga in her home and at the Institute for Advanced Study. One of hatha yoga’s basic tenets relates to not harming the body or pushing it past its limits, and Ms. Landis thinks we should apply the same principle to the Earth.

Honey Brook Organic Farm Manager Jim Kinsel operates one of the largest community supported agriculture programs in the country. In the beginning of the season CSA  embers pay a flat fee for a weekly share of fruits and vegetables. Each week from June to November the Hopewell farm delivers about 2,500 CSA shares throughout New Jersey, from South Orange to Cherry Hill, offering residents of the Garden State thousands of pounds of food crops — tomatoes, strawberries, eggplant.

With three years of farming experience, Mr. Kinsel came to Honey Brook in 1991,  establishing what he says was one of the first organic farms in the state. He describes his first attempt at farming like this: “The first year I knew absolutely nothing. It was a total leap, a leap of faith.” He remembers making $4,000 profit his first year at Honey Brook, which was named Watershed Organic Farm until 2004. Disappointed, his partner left the
farm. On the other hand, the money buoyed Mr. Kinsel’s spirit. “I viewed it as an
extreme success,” he says. “Not only did we harvest crops but we made a modest return.”