One of the basic tenets of communicating on climate change is to connect with people personally, and engage them emotionally. Americans need trusted messengers who have the ability to relate climate change to their daily lives, and provide relevant and practical ways to participate in solutions. In this interview with POWDER magazine, ecoAmerica board member Erick […]
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New Nature Rocks Website Offers New Paths to the Outdoors
May 16, 2013 
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This week, the Nature Rocks program is debuting a new website with a lot more ways to get kids active in the outdoors. Developed by the Nature Conservancy, the new site offers an expanded, colorful, and user-friendly way of finding activities for children and their parents that connect them easily to their environment. With a new, […]
Read moreYale Poll: Climate Change Belief Drops 7%, Likely Influenced by Cold Winter
May 14, 2013 0 Comments
Last week, Yale and George Mason Universities released their latest report on American attitudes about climate, and found that belief in climate change has dropped 7 percent in just half a year – mostly, they surmised, due to a cold winter. Will Oremus at Slate responded to this by writing about unscientific humans are. But for […]
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Vote for ecoAmerica at SXSW Eco
May 13, 2013 0 Comments
ecoAmerica has submitted a panel to bring our world-class research, analysis, and insight to the SXSW Eco conference in Austin, TX this October. We’ve proposed a session titled “America at a Tipping Point: Climate Gets Personal,” to share our perspectives and practical approach to inspiring and empowering Americans on climate solutions by harnessing climate as […]
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Best Practices: Learning from the Human Rights Campaign’s Social Media Sweep
May 8, 2013 0 Comments
As we embrace climate as a social issue, we have the opportunity to glean best practices from other social movements. The good news is that we don’t have to pull out our history books — we have current learnings from the not-so-distant past. What compelled an estimated 10 million Facebook users to change their profile […]
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The Moral Arguments for Action: Who is Using them, and How?
May 3, 2013 0 Comments
While there is much study of the efficacy of ethical arguments for taking action on climate change, there is less known about who is using them, and how. In a recent study, the National Climate Ethics Campaign and the Resource Innovation Group looked at 135 organizations, both religious and secular, that rely primarily or partially […]
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Climate Change Gets Personal
May 1, 2013 0 Comments
Today, Yale and George Mason released their most recent findings on American sentiment on extreme weather and climate change, from a phone poll conducted in April. They found that 85 percent of Americans had personally experienced an extreme weather event during the last year, 80 percent had a family member or friend who’d experienced one, […]
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Moving past denial: climate change in public school curriculum
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
Earlier this month, the Guardian reported on a contentious effort to infuse climate change into American public school curriculum. Whether to include climate change in curricula – and how to talk about it – has been a hot topic, as opposing forces have tried to block lesson plans in 18 states. While progress has been […]
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Leveling the Field
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