Voting is a habit, not a series of one-off transactions. And at the Environmental Voter Project, we leverage the latest behavioral science to work year-round in local, state, and federal elections to turn non-voting environmentalists into consistent super-voters. To us, every election is an important behavioral intervention opportunity.
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.
Living on Earth: Mustering Georgia's Environmental Voters
The 2020 Presidential election had a historic turnout, including young voters and voters of color, who are statistically more likely than other voters to list climate or the environment as their top priority when voting. Nathaniel Stinnett explains to Steve Curwood how turnout of environmentally-focused voters might influence Georgia's twin US Senate run-off elections January 5th.
The Washington Post: So How Much Did Climate Change Matter In The 2020 Election?
Two big issues dominated the 2020 election: the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. But voters concerned about climate change still helped Joe Biden win the White House.
WHYY: Pennsylvania Environmentalists Actually Voted This Year. That's A Big Deal.
In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, voters prioritizing environmental issues may have tipped the scales of the election in favor of Joe Biden.
Heated: 600,000 new environmental voters
Since the election, a lot of ink has been spilled about youth voter turnout, which increased about 8 percent compared to 2016. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the climate movement. But not all climate-related get-out-the-vote efforts were focused on people under the age of 35
Let's flood Georgia with environmental voters on Jan. 5th
The cutting-edge Environmental Voter Project (EVP) has identified 382,844 environmentalists in Georgia who are very unlikely to vote in the Jan. 5th U.S. Senate runoff elections.
The Guardian: 'We Need Some Fire': Climate Change Activists Issue Call To Arms for Voters
Climate Connections: Mobilizing an Army of Environmental Voters
Think Progress: A 'Jaw-Dropping' 15 Million Super-Environmentalists Don't Vote In The Midterms
CBS News: Non-profit seeks to propel registered environmentalists to the polls
The New York Times: Visionaries: Taking On Climate Change
Huffington Post: This Year, Earth Day Is On Nov. 6
Yes! Magazine: 13 Climate Justice Leaders Imagined as Comic Superheroes
The Earth could use some climate-change-fighting superheroes right about now. And according to a new comic series by the nonprofit Amplifier, there are a few real-life ones in our midst. Thirteen of them, actually.
Washington Monthly: Planet Earth Gets a Ground Game
In a crowded field, no issue more spectacularly illustrates the failures of our political system than climate change. We are hurtling toward catastrophes that threaten the very existence of humankind, yet the matter is almost totally absent from political discourse. Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address didn’t mention it. Neither did the official Democratic response. There are no fights being waged on climate policy in Congress; no government shutdowns based on it; no think pieces wondering whether Democrats should emphasize the environment over identity politics.
