Updates

October 22 2018
Press

New Green Strategy: Change The Electorate, Not The Election

It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.

October 19 2018
Press

WGBH News: Environmentalists Have Their Favorite Candidates, But That Doesn't Matter If They Rarely Cast A Ballot

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.

October 12 2018
Press

The Guardian: 'We Need Some Fire': Climate Change Activists Issue Call To Arms for Voters

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?

October 9 2018
Press

Climate Connections: Mobilizing an Army of Environmental Voters

Climate change is a high priority for many Americans. But on election days, many of those passionate environmentalists do not vote.

September 4 2018
Press

Think Progress: A 'Jaw-Dropping' 15 Million Super-Environmentalists Don't Vote In The Midterms

The Environmental Voter Project aims to mobilize "the silent green majority."

August 30 2018
Press

Grist: Inside the Manipulative, Tricky, Devious, World-Saving Plan of the Environmental Voter Project

Relying on tools of behavioral psychology, a get-out-the-vote effort urges environmentalists to the polls -- and barely mentions the environment at all.

June 14 2018
Press

CBS News: Non-profit seeks to propel registered environmentalists to the polls

Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, is striving to get environmentalists to vote in elections. Stinnett joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" to explain his goals.

June 1 2018
Press

The New York Times: Visionaries: Taking On Climate Change

Nathaniel Stinnett rarely talks about the environment; climate change even less. For the person who runs the Environmental Voter Project, that may sound surprising. To Mr. Stinnett, it’s pretty obvious, even if it’s difficult.

April 22 2018
Press

Huffington Post: This Year, Earth Day Is On Nov. 6

This year, if you care about the environment, you should spend April 22 and every other day working toward a more important date ― Nov. 6, Election Day. That’s when we can force policymakers to protect our climate and natural resources. Nov. 6 is this year’s Earth Day, and all of us need to show up.

Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project

April 21 2018
Press

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.