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Carolyn Raffensperger lives on the prairie of North Dakota. Her house is partially underground, protected from the constant wind by a rise in the earth. She and her husband, Fred Kirschenmann, grow their own food, heat their home with two woodstoves, and drink from a 400-foot-deep well. This might seem to be an unlikely place for an intellectual dynamo who aims to revolutionize the future of healing, but in fact it’s ideal. There’s room to think out here, she says. You can see what’s coming.

What Raffensperger hopes to see is nothing short of a new scientific era. Biology, chemistry, and other fields have made tremendous strides over the past half century, but they’ve also done their share of harm. As executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, or SEHN, Raffens-perger is part of a movement to democratize science and put it to work for the common good. If this burgeoning movement succeeds, the next great scientific advance won’t be another wonder drug or feat of genetic engineering. It will be putting a stop to our habits of technological recklessness and the damage that results from valuing efficiency and profit over a healthy world.