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, […]
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Yale Poll: Climate Change Belief Drops 7%, Likely Influenced by Cold Winter
May 14, 2013 
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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 […]
Read more 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 […]
Read more 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 […]
Read more 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 […]
Read more 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, […]
Read more 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 […]
Read more Theme of 2013 Earth Day Comes Alive in Social Media Project
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
In the months leading up to Earth Day last week, the Earth Day Network put together an international, participatory, social media project to put a human face on climate change. From Dayton, Ohio, to Timor Leste, from Chile to India, thousands of fascinating photos and stories attest to the impacts that climate change is having […]
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