RALEIGH — Roanoke Valley resident and community activist Gary Grant is one of three individuals profiled in a television documentary airing Thursday, Feb. 11, at 9:30 p.m., on UNC-TV, North Carolina Public Television.

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“We hope the documentary provides inspiration for people who believe that one individual can make a huge difference in protecting the environment,”

said Dr. Tom Linden, executive producer and director of the Medical and Science Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The program was written and produced by students in the science documentary television course at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The three “environmental heroes” include: • Grant, a community activist from Tillery who has worked for decades to protect his African-American farming community from polluting industries such as corporate hog farms. He led the fight to institute a hog farm moratorium in North Carolina.

• Dean Brooks, a former dairy farmer from Goldston in Chatham County who started and runs one of the largest compost businesses in the southeastern United States. He and his family turn organic waste into profit while reducing garbage going into landfills.

• Todd Miller, founder and executive director of the North Carolina Coastal Federation in Newport, who has built one of the largest coastal protection organizations on the East Coast.

The documentary previously was a finalist in both the Carrboro Film Festival and the North Carolina Visions Film Festival.

On the Web: For more information about the documentary, go to: http://www.unctv.org/environmentalheroes/index.html.

For more information about the Medical and Science Journalism Program, go to: http://www.jomc.unc.edu/medicaljournalism.