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My Climate Journey
Interview with Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
Monday, June 17, 2019
Jason Jacobs and Nathaniel Stinnett
Jason Jacobs (host of the My Climate Journey podcast) interviews Nathaniel Stinnett about The Environmental Voter Project.
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The Revelator
Can The Environmental Movement Carry A 'Green Wave' Into 2020?
Monday, May 13, 2019
Elected officials won't care about environmental issues unless environmental voters turn out to the polls.
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Living On Earth (Public Radio International)
No-Show Green Voters
Friday, May 3, 2019
Founder of the Environmental Voter Project, Nathaniel Stinnett, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss what it might mean for environmental policies if the 20 million "super-environmentalist" registered voters actually show up at the polls in greater numbers and what his organization is doing to get out that green vote.
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Ozy
New Taboo: Are You Ashamed of Your Voting Record?
Monday, February 25, 2019
By appealing to a voter’s idealized version of themselves — as a good citizen who makes the time to vote — campaigners can nudge people to the booth on Election Day.
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WBUR - Cognoscenti
America's Last Best Chance To Act On Climate
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
In the fight against climate change, 2020 may be the most important year any of us will live through.
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NBC News
'A Green Wave': Signs Point to Voters Demanding Action on Climate Change
Friday, December 28, 2018
Going into the midterm elections, few candidates made the warming planet a keystone of their campaigns despite devastating fires and storms that scientists say have been worsened by carbon pollution. Climate change has typically been low on voters’ lists of priorities.
But as a new Congress comes into power in January, that indifference could be changing. Surveys conducted for the midterms found that between 7 and 9 percent of the electorate named climate change or the environment as the top issue facing the country. Typically, the number lags around 2 percent, environmentalists say.
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Living On Earth (Public Radio International)
The Environmental Voting Gap
Friday, December 7, 2018
Environmental Voter Project Founder Nathaniel Stinnett joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss what it might mean for environmental policies if politicians tap into the base of some 20 million ‘super-environmentalist’ registered voters.
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The Revelator
New Green Strategy: Change The Electorate, Not The Election
Monday, October 22, 2018
It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.
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WGBH News (Boston NPR)
Environmentalists Have Their Favorite Candidates, But That Doesn't Matter If They Rarely Cast A Ballot
Friday, October 19, 2018
The Environmental Voter Project uses a surprisingly accurate combination of polls and predictive models to determine who's most likely to identify climate change or the environment as one of their top priorities. And they can see from voter records which of those environmentalists are not showing up for elections. Then, the group targets them, and tries to get them to vote.
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The Guardian
'We Need Some Fire': Climate Change Activists Issue Call To Arms for Voters
Friday, October 12, 2018
Campaigners say more than 15m people who care about the environment did not vote in the 2014 midterms -- can they create a 'green wave' this November?