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  • December Poll Finds Climate Action, Concern on the Rise

    December Poll Finds Climate Action, Concern on the Rise

    Anyone paying attention to the news on climate change in 2017 has learned about record-setting climate impacts, dire predictions, and over 30 rollbacks of important protections at the federal level. The abundance of negative news has the potential to deflate aspiration into resignation, and motivation into fatalism. Despite all of the bad news, however, there…

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  • Speaking Through Your Spending: Divesting from Fossil Fuels
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    Speaking Through Your Spending: Divesting from Fossil Fuels

    Last week, in response to the threats posed by climate change, The World Bank made a blockbuster announcement: After 2019, it will no longer finance oil and gas extraction. It shared its decision at  the One Planet Summit, convened by bank president Yim Yong Kim,  U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, and French President Emmanuel Macron to further…

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  • Let’s Lead Case Study: Sacramento Combines Equity Plus Livability
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    Let’s Lead Case Study: Sacramento Combines Equity Plus Livability

    How are leaders across the country stepping up to take action on climate change? ecoAmerica has released Let’s Lead On Climate, a brand-new guide that features nine success stories of initiatives by local organizations who are inspiring and engaging communities around them to make climate solutions a priority. In the guide, you’ll hear from local health, faith,…

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  • 5 Major Nursing Groups Join Climate Action Collaborative
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    5 Major Nursing Groups Join Climate Action Collaborative

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Washington, DC, 11/28/17–Today, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) and ecoAmerica’s Climate for Health program announced that five prominent nursing organizations have joined them as signatories of the new Nursing Collaborative on Climate Change and Health. The collaborative will empower millions of nurses nationwide to reduce their climate impact, help patients, communities, and…

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  • Let’s Lead Case Study: Midway Church Makes Everyone Welcome
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    Let’s Lead Case Study: Midway Church Makes Everyone Welcome

    How are leaders across the country stepping up to take action on climate change? ecoAmerica has released Let’s Lead On Climate, a brand-new guide that features nine success stories of initiatives by local organizations who are inspiring and engaging communities around them to make climate solutions a priority. In the guide, you’ll hear from local health, faith,…

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  • Let’s Lead Case Study: Florida BRACEs Itself
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    Let’s Lead Case Study: Florida BRACEs Itself

    How are leaders across the country stepping up to take action on climate change? ecoAmerica has released Let’s Lead On Climate, a brand-new guide that features nine success stories of initiatives by local organizations who are inspiring and engaging communities around them to make climate solutions a priority. In the guide, you’ll hear from local health, faith,…

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  • Path to Positive Utah Kicks Off in Salt Lake City
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    Path to Positive Utah Kicks Off in Salt Lake City

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 14, 2017 – Prominent Utah leaders from business, government, higher education, faith communities and civic organizations united on Nov. 14, 2017 to sign a declaration acknowledging shared responsibility for protecting Utah’s economy, air quality and environment, and safeguarding against the risks of climate change. The gathering kicked off Path to Positive Utah, a collaborative initiative sponsored…

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  • Let’s Lead Case Study: A Just, Sustainable Providence
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    Let’s Lead Case Study: A Just, Sustainable Providence

    How are leaders across the country stepping up to take action on climate change? ecoAmerica has released Let’s Lead On Climate, a brand-new guide that features nine success stories of initiatives by local organizations who are inspiring and engaging communities around them to make climate solutions a priority. In the guide, you’ll hear from local health, faith,…

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  • Climate Leaders Share Their Success Stories
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    Climate Leaders Share Their Success Stories

    Across the nation, Americans are now taking up the mantle on climate change as action on the issue moves from the federal level to the state and local level. People are looking to community leaders for solutions. Fortunately, local climate leadership is burgeoning, and with increased visibility and clearer guidance, it has the opportunity to…

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  • American Climate Perspectives: Top 10 Trends in Climate Opinion

    American Climate Perspectives: Top 10 Trends in Climate Opinion

    In an effort to better understand trends in Americans’ shifting attitudes on and awareness of climate change, and to underscore areas of common ground, ecoAmerica synthesized findings from the latest national polls in its American Climate Perspectives: 2017 Annual Summary and released the results in our October 2017 American Climate Perspectives report. Here are the top 10 most significant…

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  • Climate Leader Query: Shantha Ready Alonso
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    Climate Leader Query: Shantha Ready Alonso

    The 2017 American Climate Leadership Summit (October 25-26) will feature conversations with prominent climate experts and advocates.  ecoAmerica offered some of our guest speakers an opportunity to answer up to three questions related to climate change and what we can do about it. Shantha Ready Alonso, Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries, educates, equips and…

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