Kamala Harris signals the rise of the “climate voter”
  • August 15 2020
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Quartz: Kamala Harris signals the rise of the “climate voter”

Politicians in the United States have never been able to rely on climate concerns to turn out voters, or change their behavior at the ballot box. But something started to change in recent elections.

Interview of the Week, Nathaniel Stinnett CEO, Environmental Voter Project
  • August 14 2020
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Our Daily Planet: Interview of the Week, Nathaniel Stinnett CEO, Environmental Voter Project

ODP: New polling by Data For Progress shows that progressive climate policies are popular in key battleground states and voters seem to be motivated to vote due to climate and environmental issues. But that has not been true in the past. Why is this election different? Or is it?

2020: The Year American Voters _____ed The World
  • August 7 2020
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2020: The Year American Voters _____ed The World

This fall, you get to fill in the blank.

Will Climate Matter in the Election?
  • June 3 2020
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Climate One: Will Climate Matter in the Election?

The 2020 elections have moved climate change to the political mainstage in ways Americans haven’t seen before. For the first time, candidates were competing to declare themselves “the climate candidate” and debated their action plans with compelling urgency.

Citizens' Climate Lobby Guest Speaker: Nathaniel Stinnett
  • April 11 2020
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Citizens' Climate Lobby Guest Speaker: Nathaniel Stinnett

When Nathaniel Stinnett found out that environmentalists, by and large, were staying home on election day, he saw a problem in need of a solution. That’s why in 2015 he launched the Environmental Voter Project, which identifies environmentalists who don’t vote and reaches out to get them to the polls.

Environmentalists Most Motivated To Vote In 2020
  • April 3 2020
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Environmentalists Most Motivated To Vote In 2020

Of the 1,514 registered voters surveyed in the November poll, a stunning 14% listed climate and the environment as their top priority.

Stay Home. Stay Healthy. Promise to Vote.
  • March 29 2020
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Stay Home. Stay Healthy. Promise to Vote.

Now is the time to stay home and stay healthy.

Special Super Tuesday Preview with Nathaniel Stinnett, Environmental Voter Project
  • March 2 2020
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Our Daily Planet: Special Super Tuesday Preview with Nathaniel Stinnett, Environmental Voter Project

Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project that works to significantly increase voter demand for environmental leadership by identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.

In state after state, climate change emerges as a key issue for Democratic voters
  • February 24 2020
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The Washington Post: In state after state, climate change emerges as a key issue for Democratic voters

Climate change emerged as a front-burner issue in every state so far in this Democratic presidential primary season, in ways difficult to fathom only a few years ago.

An Obscure Issue Four Years Ago, Climate Emerged as a Top Concern in New Hampshire
  • February 12 2020
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Inside Climate News: An Obscure Issue Four Years Ago, Climate Emerged as a Top Concern in New Hampshire

Amid the over-the-top politicking that has come to define the first-in-the-nation primary, climate change rose from obscurity to a place among the top issues for Democratic voters. That marks a win for activists and several extraordinary campaigns in New Hampshire to elevate the recognition of climate as a crisis requiring political action.
  • April 19 2016
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Columbia Daily Tribune: Concerned about the environment? Then vote.

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. "Smells like money," we would say. But pollution -- that was a city problem.

People voting in voting booths.
  • April 8 2016
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Citizens Climate Lobby: Step one to make politicians care about climate change: VOTE!

The Environmental Voter Project identified over 15 million people for whom the climate is a high priority. The problem, however, is that they don't vote.
I Voted Today
  • March 4 2016
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Rachel's Network: Getting out the Environmental Vote

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?

Nathanial Stinnett, Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
  • January 21 2016
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Grist: The Voting Guru

When Stinnett - a veteran campaign strategist who has been involved with several U.S. Senate, congressional, state, and local races - saw the environment consistently low on lists of voter concerns, he wondered what was going on. Convinced that getting those people to the polls would be easier than getting non-believers to go green, Stinnett created the crowdfunded Environmental Voter Project.

People voting in voting booths.
  • November 8 2015
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You Are Here: Environmental Voter Project Looks To Bring Environmentalists to Polls

Chloe Goldstein interviews Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and CEO of the Environmental Voter Project.
Environmental Voting Project canvasser Heleena Mathew spoke with a Green Street resident. JOHN BLANDING/BOSTON GLOBE
  • November 1 2015
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Boston Globe: Group’s goal is to get non-voters to the polls

As the Boston City Council election nears, clipboard-toting canvassers are busy stumping for their chosen candidate, working to get out the vote in a low-key race. But an environmental group now door-knocking in the neighborhoods isn’t trying to get anyone elected. Instead, the group is hoping to persuade inconsistent voters — the kind political campaigns typically ignore — to simply head to the polls.

  • October 22 2015
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Nature: Climate policy: US environmentalists must turn out to vote

Democracy is crucial in the fight against global warming, attributing the inadequate response of most democracies to an overall lack of public engagement. Our findings at the Environmental Voter Project indicate that a contributory factor could be a lamentably low turnout by environmentalist voters.

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