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Today's guest on the show is the founder of the Environmental Voter Project, Nathaniel Stinnett. Nathaniel has an extremely powerful message to share with us about the importance of voting. I can honestly say that this perspective has dramatically shifted the way that I think about voting and the role that the action of voting can play in the outcome of an environmental issue.

Nonprofits work on many different issues and use lots of different methods to achieve their goals - from direct service delivery, to social justice advocacy, to non-partisan civic engagement.

As a Tarkio High School senior in April 1970, I didn't place Earth Day at the top of my priority list. Other than a few fumes inhaled while operating farm equipment, the air seemed plenty healthy and clean in my rural northwest Missouri community. Hogs and cattle smelled a little at times.

Many of us now realize that climate change and other environmental issues have become - quite literally - existential problems. So why are politicians still so unwilling to pass the laws and regulations that we desperately need?