The Revelator - 30 Ways Environmentalists Can Participate in Democracy
Voting on election day is job one, but the planet needs your civic commitment every other day of the year, too.
Climate One - Political Climate: The Midterm Forecast
EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with Climate One about where he believes the upcoming midterm races currently stand.
Sign up for November 2022 GOTV Shifts Today!
Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in ahead of the Nov. 8 election!
Thrillest - If You Care About Climate Change, Head to the Polls
Don't be deterred by a lack of political attention on climate change. Your vote can change that.
Sign up for our Oct. 11 Day of Action
Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in VA, ME, NH, NM, & AZ ahead of the Nov. 8 election!
NPR - Living On Earth: Green Voters and the 2022 Midterms
EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett has a conversation with Living on Earth Host Steve Curwood about how the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act might affect environmental voter turnout.
Radio Kingston: Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster
EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett has a conversation with the Green Radio Hour on why environmentalists don't vote and how the EVP is getting them to the polls.
The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act. The 2022 midterm elections are less than 90 days away. With historic investments in climate action almost signed into law and historic stakes for the upcoming elections, what should the climate movement do now?
HuffPost: ‘Dormant’ Climate Voters Could Swing Elections In Key States, New Poll Suggests
Driving the voters who rarely cast ballots to turn out may be the trick to bringing climate hawks off the sidelines.
Battleground State Poll: new data on voters in AZ, GA, NV, and PA
Read key findings from a survey of 3,296 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania
Yay for the Paris Agreement... but now we need to VOTE!
With the European Union formally joining the Paris Climate Agreement on Wednesday, over 55 countries (representing over 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions) have signed on to the accord which will now officially enter into force on November 4th.
The Easiest Way For Massachusetts Residents To Fight Climate Change
By the end of this century, Massachusetts may experience as many as 24 days above 100°F each year, not to mention nearly 1 in 5 Boston homes could wash away due to rising sea levels.
Politicians Know Whether You Vote Or Not
Don’t worry - this isn’t some sinister plot. When you mark your ballot, your choice is still a secret...but that’s pretty much the only part of voting that’s a secret.
Climate Change is more Polarizing than Abortion...So now what?
The science is settled and the stakes couldn't be higher, but huge numbers of Americans still deny climate change and now it's getting harder for the rest of us to change their minds.
The Easiest Way to Fight Climate Change
Climate change is big and scary...and sometimes it's hard to figure out how we, as individuals, can fight against something so enormous. But there's one thing that each of us can do today.
5 States Where Environmental Voters Could Have a Huge Impact in 2016
Elections are decided by the people who actually show up...and environmentalists don't always show up. Using big data analytics, predictive modeling, and public voter files, the Environmental Voter Project has discovered that 15.78 million environmentalists don't vote in mid-term elections, and a whopping 10.1 million didn't even vote in the 2012 Presidential election.
The Environmental Voter Project is partnering with Vote for Home, a great new video project where well-known musicians and artists discuss the importance of voting as a way to address the impacts of climate change.
It Only Takes 14 Minutes to Fight Climate Change
Imagine if 15 million environmentalists decided to take 14 minutes and vote next Election Day. It could change everything.
The 2016 Elections That Nobody's Talking About
Tens of millions of Americans will also have the opportunity to vote for a new mayor in 2016.
Paris Gives Us Climate Hope. Voting Will Give Us Climate Results.
It wasn't just in Paris. People from around the world began celebrating on Saturday evening as officials from more than 190 countries agreed to a landmark global deal to address climate change.
A new report from the Environmental Voter Project claims to have identified a hidden voting bloc in nine states: low-propensity environmental voters.
WBUR Cognoscenti: So You're Serious About Climate Change: Vote In Your Local Elections
After the trauma of the 2020 election cycle, the American people would be forgiven for seeking a brief break from politics. We lived through a bitter presidential campaign, two runoff elections in Georgia to determine control of the U.S. Senate, and an armed insurrection at the Capitol, all amidst a global pandemic. It should come as no surprise that this has left voters, volunteers and donors with a serious case of election fatigue.
HuffPost: The ‘Army Of Environmental Super Voters’ Is Growing, And Marching On City Hall
Nathaniel Stinnett launched the Environmental Voter Project in 2015 to resolve a simple but enormously important contradiction. Polls found a vast majority of Americans understood climate change and wanted the government to act. And while millions of those people were registered to vote, many never cast ballots.
Our Daily Planet: Environmental Voter Project extends to 5 new states to mobiliize millions
The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) has announced that it will be expanding its voter outreach programs into five new states: Alaska, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and New York. With this addition, the EVP will now operate in 17 states to identify inactive environmentalists and equip them with the tools to become lifelong voters.
Citizen's Climate Lobby: Environmental Voter Project helped put climate near top of national agenda
At Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we often say the solution to climate change is democracy. Well, the first step to engage with our democracy is voting. Research shows, however, that many who are concerned about the state of our climate don’t even take that initial step. In fact, tens of millions of people who identify as environmentalists have been no-shows at the polls on election day.
Living on Earth: Georgia's green voters helped deliver the Senate to the Democrats
Voters most likely to rank the environment as their top priority are young, Black or Latino, and they were key voters in the two recent senatorial wins in Georgia that gave the majority to Democrats.
Mother Earth Podcast: Nathaniel Stinnett on how to make our leaders protect the environment
In this second of two special bonus episodes to Season One of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a timely conversation with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project.
The Climate Pod: What Motivates Environmental Voters?
This week, Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, joins the show to answer one basic question: what the hell is going on with environmental voters? Just kidding...kinda.
Our Daily Planet: Environmental Voters Were Highly Influential This Year
This week we were so excited to get to sit down with Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director and founder of the Environmental Voter Project, to get some insights about the recent election and what climate activists can learn from it. Nathaniel brings some truly valuable insight into who climate voters are, what happened with the Latinx vote in 2020, and what EVP is planning in Georgia for the special Senate races currently underway.
My Climate Journey: Nathaniel Stinnett Returns!
Back by popular demand, today's guest is Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-profit that aims to significantly increase voter demand for environmental leadership by identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.