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  • September 30 2022
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Thrillest - If You Care About Climate Change, Head to the Polls

Don't be deterred by a lack of political attention on climate change. Your vote can change that.

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  • September 20 2022
  • Blog posts

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Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in VA, ME, NH, NM, & AZ ahead of the Nov. 8 election!

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  • September 9 2022
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NPR - Living On Earth: Green Voters and the 2022 Midterms

EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett has a conversation with Living on Earth Host Steve Curwood about how the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act might affect environmental voter turnout.

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  • August 29 2022
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Radio Kingston: Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster

EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett has a conversation with the Green Radio Hour on why environmentalists don't vote and how the EVP is getting them to the polls.

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  • August 10 2022
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The Climate Pod: How To Build Climate Political Power After The Inflation Reduction Act (w/ Nathaniel Stinnett and Lori Lodes)

The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act. The 2022 midterm elections are less than 90 days away. With historic investments in climate action almost signed into law and historic stakes for the upcoming elections, what should the climate movement do now?

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  • July 28 2022
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HuffPost: ‘Dormant’ Climate Voters Could Swing Elections In Key States, New Poll Suggests

Driving the voters who rarely cast ballots to turn out may be the trick to bringing climate hawks off the sidelines.

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  • July 28 2022
  • Reports & Studies

Battleground State Poll: new data on voters in AZ, GA, NV, and PA

Read key findings from a survey of 3,296 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania

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  • July 25 2022
  • Blog posts

“I’m not a numbers person, but I love numbers people”: An EVP Volunteer Profile

If there’s one thing the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) does flawlessly, it’s numbers. EVP uses data analytics to identify non-voting environmentalists across 17 states and then applies behavioral science-informed messaging to turn those environmentalists into better voters. To date, EVP has helped turn over 1,030,000 non-voting environmentalists into “super-voters” who now vote in every election.

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  • July 19 2022
  • Press

The Hill: Climate movement must stop hoping for political heroes

EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett wrote an Op-Ed for The Hill in response to the recent announcement that Senator Joe Manchin will not support climate change legislation.

Climate activists, including members of Extinction Rebellion, participate in a demonstration in front of the Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse against a recent Supreme Court ruling on June 30, 2022 in New York City.
  • July 5 2022
  • Press

WGBH: 'It’s our job to show up': How environmentalists can build political power after the EPA ruling

EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett spoke with Boston Public Radio about the recent West Virginia v EPA Supreme Court decision and the role that EVP is playing in getting non-voting environmentalists to change their ways.

Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters on Nov. 2, 2020, at Turner Field in Atlanta. Credit: Brynn Anderson/AP
  • January 20 2021
  • Press

Living on Earth: Georgia's green voters helped deliver the Senate to the Democrats

Voters most likely to rank the environment as their top priority are young, Black or Latino, and they were key voters in the two recent senatorial wins in Georgia that gave the majority to Democrats.

Nathanial Stinnett, Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
  • December 18 2020
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Mother Earth Podcast: Nathaniel Stinnett on how to make our leaders protect the environment

In this second of two special bonus episodes to Season One of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a timely conversation with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project.

The Climate Pod
  • December 9 2020
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The Climate Pod: What Motivates Environmental Voters?

This week, Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, joins the show to answer one basic question: what the hell is going on with environmental voters? Just kidding...kinda.

Nathanial Stinnett, Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
  • December 4 2020
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Our Daily Planet: Environmental Voters Were Highly Influential This Year

This week we were so excited to get to sit down with Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director and founder of the Environmental Voter Project, to get some insights about the recent election and what climate activists can learn from it. Nathaniel brings some truly valuable insight into who climate voters are, what happened with the Latinx vote in 2020, and what EVP is planning in Georgia for the special Senate races currently underway.

Nathanial Stinnett, Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
  • December 2 2020
  • Press

My Climate Journey: Nathaniel Stinnett Returns!

Back by popular demand, today's guest is Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-profit that aims to significantly increase voter demand for environmental leadership by identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.

Nathanial Stinnett, Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project
  • November 27 2020
  • Press

Living on Earth: Mustering Georgia's Environmental Voters

The 2020 Presidential election had a historic turnout, including young voters and voters of color, who are statistically more likely than other voters to list climate or the environment as their top priority when voting. Nathaniel Stinnett explains to Steve Curwood how turnout of environmentally-focused voters might influence Georgia's twin US Senate run-off elections January 5th.

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  • November 18 2020
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The Washington Post: So How Much Did Climate Change Matter In The 2020 Election?

Two big issues dominated the 2020 election: the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. But voters concerned about climate change still helped Joe Biden win the White House.

The Sunrise Movement organized protests like this one in July 2019 in Philadelphia to pressure the Democratic National Committee to hold a primary debate focused on climate change. (Jeff Brady/NPR)
  • November 11 2020
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WHYY: Pennsylvania Environmentalists Actually Voted This Year. That's A Big Deal.

In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, voters prioritizing environmental issues may have tipped the scales of the election in favor of Joe Biden.

Activist signs during the "Fire Drill Fridays" climate change protest and rally outside on Capital Hill on December 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images
  • November 10 2020
  • Press

Heated: 600,000 new environmental voters

Since the election, a lot of ink has been spilled about youth voter turnout, which increased about 8 percent compared to 2016. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the climate movement. But not all climate-related get-out-the-vote efforts were focused on people under the age of 35

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  • November 2 2020
  • Press

Gizmodo: Inside Environmentalists' Final Efforts to Get Out the Vote

This election cycle, the climate crisis is on Americans’ minds. In an October poll from the New York Times and Siena College, 58% of people surveyed said they were “very concerned” or at least “somewhat concerned” about climate change, and potential voters in swing states expressed worry about its effects in their communities.

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