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.
WGBH News: How Important Is Climate Change In the New Hampshire Primary?
The Guardian: More U.S. Voters Than Ever Care About Climate - But Will They Go To The Polls?
Environmental issues tend to fall through the cracks in American politics, where they are often ignored, belittled or even denied by politicians. Yet this familiar political climate, much like Earth's climate, is more changeable than it might seem.
Buzzfeed News: Forget About The Climate Deniers. It’s The Climate Liars We Need To Stop.
The international scientific community is shouting from the rooftops that we have just 11 years to act to avert climate catastrophe. Yet it often seems like nobody is listening — climate denial thrives, and politicians are doubling down on fossil fuels in the face of a global emergency.
Huffpost: The Group Raising An NRA-Style ‘Army Of Environmental Super Voters’ Is Expanding
Greentech Media: The Environmental Voter Problem
The Revelator: Can The Environmental Movement Carry A 'Green Wave' Into 2020?
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?
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.
You Are Here: Environmental Voter Project Looks To Bring Environmentalists to Polls
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.
Nature: Climate policy: US environmentalists must turn out to vote