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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Theme of 2013 Earth Day Comes Alive in Social Media Project
April 29, 2013 
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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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Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll Named
April 26, 2013 0 Comments
Starting in 2008, ecoAmerica has been helping millions of college students in America make environmental commitment a part of their college choices. Our “Green Colleges” rating system devised in partnership with the Princeton Review has resulted in annual sustainability ratings on a scale of 60-99. In this piece in USA TODAY, Clara Ritger writes that […]
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New Report: Ethical Consumerism Continues to Grow
April 23, 2013 Comments Off
A new report by the Natural Marketing Institute, “A Look at Key Sustainability Trends in the U.S.” offers some in-depth and comprehensive findings on the psyche of the green consumer. Based on NMI’s LOHAS segmentation techniques (which stands for “Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability”), this report details findings on price sensitivity, attitudes about bottled water, practicality vs. […]
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What Does Climate Change Have to Do With Health Care?
April 11, 2013 Comments Off
As Co-founder and President of Healthcare Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, Gary Cohen challenges our healthcare system to make sustainability a part of standard operating procedure. ecoAmerica has been working with HCWH on a new program called Healthy People, Healthy Planet, to make climate change strategies part of the broader vision of healthcare providers. Why healthcare? In […]
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Talk About Scaling Up: Hundreds of Colleges Creating our Clean Energy Future, Today
April 9, 2013 1 Comment
We’re thrilled to announce the latest progress of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a Second Nature program developed in collaboration with ecoAmerica in 2007. The progress made in the last year alone is adding up to some amazing numbers: From June 2012 to March 2013, ACUPCC signatories have significantly […]
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Republicans Already Convinced, says George Mason/Yale Survey
April 3, 2013 Comments Off
George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communications’ new poll on the attitudes of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents came out yesterday, and results show that despite the much-discussed partisan divide, standard climate messages are making some significant non-partisan inroads. The GMU/Yale study found that the majority of Republicans think climate change is happening (52 percent), […]
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This week’s U.S.-China Climate Call to Action – signed during John Kerry’s first trip to Beijing as Secretary of State – contains the most specific climate solutions language we’ve yet seen from this administration. The Call to Action officially forms a Climate Change Working Group between the two countries, to move forward on research, renewable […]
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