ecoAmerica has released "Trends in America's Climate & Environmental Attitudes: 2011," a summary of the latest polls on Americans' environmental beliefs, concerns, and priorities. The polls indicate "over the past two years, American public opinion on climate and environmental issues has gone through what may be a historic, negative shift." Read full report below or [...]
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Tag Archives: Climate
Day of reckoning for climate vote
November 3, 2010
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In this article commenting on the mid-term election results, Darren Samuelsohn and Robin Bravender directly relate election losses, particularly by Democrats, to the candidate's support for the 2009 climate bill.
Read moreClimate Denial: Man-Made or Natural?
November 2, 2010
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Bob Perkowitz, ecoAmerica's Founder and Chairman discusses how climate change denial is as man-made as the causes, influenced by fossil fuel-interests protecting their profits.
Read moreFraming the Narrative
November 2, 2010
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ecoAmerica’s America the Best conference, held September 28, 2010 in Washington, DC brought cross-sector leaders together for an important dialog on America's future, asking, among many questions: Is there another way? Can we transcend the system instead of trying to reform it? Is there a realistic, positive, and inspirational future that will engage Americans in [...]
Read moreIn Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy
October 20, 2010
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ecoAmerica's Climate Truths research tested and shared successful framing and language to motivate Americans on climate and energy solutions. In this article by Leslie Kaufman of The New York Times, she shares a case study of a conservative city in Kansas that is moved to embrace cleaner energy through study of the regional values of [...]
Read more“Hands Across the Sand” Offshore Drilling Protest – Was it a success?
July 2, 2010
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In a recent article in The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn assesses the turnout from the recent "Hands Across the Sand" an international offshore drilling protest that took place last Saturday, June 26th. He asserts that the turnout was relatively small, especially with respect to the recent oil spill. Cohn uses this example as an indication [...]
Read moreEmployee Engagement and Climate Change – Creating an Organisational and Environmental Win-Win
May 27, 2010
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Sustainable Life Media breaks down the best way to increase employee engagement in environmental initiatives. Many of the strategies the author recommends to communicate with, educate and measure the employees can, in a broad way, be used as tactics in engaging any audience in climate or environmental issues.
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Global Warming Isn’t All Science: The Emotional Side to Earth’s Climb In Temperature
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Climate Shift: Controversy and Teachable Moment
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College Green Rating with the Princeton Review
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Solution as Problem?: Sociologists on the Climate Wars
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Leveling the Field
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Climate Change Education: The Challenges of Teaching Science in America [VIDEO]
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Declining American (or just Republican?) Support on Green Energy Policies
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Sustainability Education and Economic Development Initiative: Program Review 2012 Released
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Framing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
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Care for Personal Health = Care for Global Climate
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I Know Not What Course Others May Take
by Meighen Speiser I was recently sent a link to watch Naomi Klein on Democracy Now, discussing climate deniers and the partisan debate created around climate. While her words and thoughts are not new to us ecoAmericans, nor those in the movement that have partnered with us, the interview stirred me. I became [...]
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