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
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
Of the 1,514 registered voters surveyed in the November poll, a stunning 14% listed climate and the environment as their top priority.
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.
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.
Citizens Climate Lobby: Step one to make politicians care about climate change: VOTE!
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