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.
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
Boston College News: Research for Change
Grist: Environmental Leaders on Hope and Progress in the Age of Trump
Inc. Magazine: Environmentalists Don't Vote. This Man Will Change That With Big Data
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Interviews Nathaniel Stinnett
Grist: If you care about climate change, why aren't you voting?
Our EveryAction Hero: The Environmental Voter Project
Campaigns & Elections: The Science Behind Turning Out Environmental Voters
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.