1. RUDOLPH AMENGA-ETEGO

Bragging Rights: 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner!

Why Plum Loves Him: Leadership and grassroots activism. Rudolph is leading a campaign to make safe, affordable, drinking water accessible to all Ghanaians by 2010.

In the struggle to secure safe, affordable drinking water for the world's poor, Rudolf Amenga-Etego, the visionary founder and campaign coordinator for the National Coalition Against the Privatization of Water, has gained international recognition for his winning campaign to suspend a major water privatization project backed by the World Bank in his native Ghana. To counter the threat of water privatization,

Amenga-Etego's activism has come at great peril to his personal safety. During the period of political instability in Ghana following a long series of bloody coups, Amenga-Etego was seized and jailed without trial many times for heading student protests. As the head of the Globalization Response Program for the Integrated Social Development Centre, Amenga-Etego's soft-spoken integrity, warmth and his unique ability to move between the worlds of the powerful and the poor have helped elevate water privatization as an important political and public health issue not only on a global scale, but on a deeply human one as well.

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2. CONRAD ANKER

Bragging Rights: Has climbed the most technically challenging terrain in this world.

Why Plum Loves Him: Extreme athleticism and adventure-seeking spirit.

Conrad Anker's specialty is, simply put, climbing the most technically challenging terrain in this world. This quest has taken him from the mountains of Alaska and Antarctica to the big walls of Patagonia and Baffin Island and the massive peaks of the Himalaya.