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Your Climate Leadership Deserves Recognition: Apply for the 2027 American Climate Leadership Awards
More than $200,000 in awards. National recognition. One opportunity to amplify your climate impact. Are you making a difference on climate change in your community? The 2027 American Climate Leadership Awards (ACLA) want to hear your story…
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A Historic Milestone for Our Democracy, Representation, and Climate
Yesterday, millions of Americans showed up. Today, we have something powerful to celebrate: progress, possibility, and renewed momentum for the future we choose…
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Time for a Change of Plans
The 2026 mid-term election cycle is only six days away. The most important thing on the ballot isn’t a candidate or a ballot issue; it’s democracy. We will see either a triumph of autocracy and/or the power of democracy in America reasserting itself. Three things distort the outcomes now.
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Ambition 2020: Climate Solutions Start with You, Me, Us
While the sparkle of New Year’s Eve has faded, and we are off and running well into 2020, it’s not too late for resolutions. Whether your list is long or nonexistent, consider adding another resolution to the top: raise ambition on climate solutions. Far too many Americans are unaware of how climate change impacts us…
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New Resource Announcement: Climate for Health Moving Forward Guide
Climate change is the greatest health threat of our time, and in response, health professionals across the U.S. and around the world are stepping into leadership on climate solutions. Changes to our climate are already impacting communities. These changes reach us all, especially impacting the most vulnerable among us. This is why climate change is…
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A Topographical Map of Climate Solutions: 34 Semifinalists Selected From a Pool of 200 for ACLA 2020
Have you ever wondered what the breadth and depth of campaigns look like at the grassroots level tackling climate change? We now have a new picture of what that looks like in stark relief. This year’s American Climate Leadership Awards semifinalists* are a topographical map of what is happening in states around our country…
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Nearly 200 apply for the American Climate Leadership Awards 2020
The American Climate Leadership Awards 2020 is excited to announce that they received 195 applications with a strong mix of health, faith, communities, and youth applicants. ecoAmerica staff is conducting an initial screening of each applicant, ensuring the application is complete, verifying credentials and evaluating the project. The top 30 applications will move on to…
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American Climate Perspectives Survey 2019, Vol. VII
Student Climate Strikes Raise Awareness, Understanding, Emotions Across the globe, young people are following the lead of Greta Thunberg, Jamie Margolin and Zero Hour, and other youth activists, and taking to the streets to demand policymaker action on climate change. From legal battles to coordinated strikes, over 4 million young people — across America and…
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Solar Energy: A Sunny Forecast
by Barbara Gottlieb, Environment & Health Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility The transition off fossil fuels — to slow climate change and to protect us from the pollution caused by burning methane, oil and coal — hinges on the availability of clean, safe, renewable alternatives. Those alternatives are increasingly at hand and affordable. Solar panels…
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The Time is Now to Rally the Nation’s Climate Champions: Apply or Nominate Heroes to the American Climate Leadership Awards Today!
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future climate strikes to raise awareness about the dangerous consequences of our warming planet. Last month in NYC Greta was the latest leading voice to sound the alarm about the dangers of a…
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Why Some Americans Don’t Worry About Climate Change
National polling data — including ecoAmerica’s — reveals that the vast majority of Americans are concerned about our changing climate. But there remain a staunch group of Americans who believe that the science is wrong, that the crisis is manufactured, and that we do not need to take action to change anything. The Americans who…
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Apply to win $150,000 in Awards: American Climate Leadership Awards
Mobilizing climate change action among people of faith, health, youth, or local communities can now earn you the chance to win $50k and an appearance on stage with former EPA Administrator and Director of the Center for Climate, Health, & the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Gina McCarthy Quick…
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Climate Change Intensifies Every Issue We Already Prioritize
Where and how does your faith community live out its values? As people of faith, we are motivated to act on a wide variety of issues rooted in our love for God, for our neighbors, and all God’s creation. Perhaps the focus is education or evangelism in the community. Maybe the focus is on helping…
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American Climate Perspectives Survey 2019, Vol. VI
Support for Energy in a Changing Climate: Wind and Solar Remain on Top, Nuclear Advances, Natural Gas Wanes As Americans experience record-breaking heat waves, floods, and wild fires this August, solutions to climate change are advancing, and getting introduced in the U.S. Congress. But do Americans understand the connection between energy, pollution, and climate? Which…