Updates

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.

Green thumb on the scale: Nathaniel Stinnett quit his job at a law firm to focus on nudging more environmentalists into the electorate. Photo by Danielle Robertson

April 9 2018
Press

Washington Monthly: Planet Earth Gets a Ground Game

In a crowded field, no issue more spectacularly illustrates the failures of our political system than climate change. We are hurtling toward catastrophes that threaten the very existence of humankind, yet the matter is almost totally absent from political discourse. Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address didn’t mention it. Neither did the official Democratic response. There are no fights being waged on climate policy in Congress; no government shutdowns based on it; no think pieces wondering whether Democrats should emphasize the environment over identity politics.

March 21 2018
Blog posts

Environmental Voter Project: 2017 Impact Report

You wanted results? Well, here they are. The Environmental Voter Project is thrilled to release its second Annual Impact Report.

March 14 2018
Press

The Great Battlefield Podcast: Identifying and Mobilizing Environmentalists with the Environmental Voter Project's Nathaniel Stinnett

Nathaniel Stinnett joins us to discuss how he and his team are using data analytics and behavioral science to increase the disproportionately low voter turnout of environmentalists.