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American Climate Perspectives Survey 2024, Vol. II
ecoAmerica’s latest survey reveals that Americans are ready and eager for health professionals to advance climate action. The survey findings offer a clear call for the health sector and health professionals to lead in educating and guiding all Americans to understand and care for health in a changing climate.
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Dismantling Voter Suppression: Exercising Our Rights for a Sustainable Future
Exercising your right to vote is fundamental to democracy. Yet, voter suppression tactics continue to threaten this essential democratic process, particularly impacting marginalized communities. Through our votes, we have the power to support policies that protect our environment…
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Climate Ambassadors: Inspiring Action
As we reflect on the first quarter of 2024, our Climate Ambassadors have once again showcased their unwavering dedication and effectiveness in fostering meaningful climate action…
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Seizing the Moment to Lead on Climate
By Daniel Barry Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” When it comes to planning and action around climate change, though, we need to flip his advice: If we wish to avoid repeating the past, we must learn from the future. Recent extreme weather events underscore…
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Climate Leader Query: Katharine Hayhoe
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. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and co-director of the Climate Science…
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Sustainability City: Climate Week Engages Stakeholders Across Borders
The world was watching President Trump on September 19 as he gave his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, reaffirming an “America First” policy. The previous day, his chief economic advisor confirmed that the US wants to pull out of the Paris climate agreement –after calling a breakfast meeting many…
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Communicating Compassion: Supporting Mental Health Before and After a Storm
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose have reawakened conversations on the connection between climate change and extreme weather. And it’s relatively easy to find solid explainers on the science of how our warming world intensifies storms (this one and this one, for example). But climate communication is about more than just sharing facts and potential solutions.…
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Lessons from Harvey: The Need to Lead
Hurricane Harvey, which struck Houston late last month, was unprecedented: The category 4 storm left some 50 inches of rain in its wake, killing more than 60 people and displacing well over 50,000 residents to date. And the extent of damage to homes, businesses, and infrastructure is still being calculated. As Hurricane Irma bears down…
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Climate Doomsday or a Livable Future? What Motivates Americans
A recent New York magazine article, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” stirred up controversy by synthesizing the worst-case predictions of climate change and its possible impacts. Rather than dwelling on these scenarios, however, climate communicators can use the attention the article drew to the issue as an opportunity to reframe how we discuss it. As ecoAmerica’s…
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American Climate Perspectives: New Insights on the Role of Religion in Climate Attitudes
Our daily news is flooded with stories on the myriad of ways America is divided, causing us to lose sight of our commonality. Climate change is a topic notoriously rife with polarized political viewpoints. But the gaps in opinion and support are narrowing, and alignment on the issue is on the rise. ecoAmerica decided to explore a key factor thought to…
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Let’s Lead on Climate: Higher Education Success Story, Loyola University Chicago
Taking Climate Beyond Campus Boundary Lines One of a series of campus events surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’ (photo: Loyola University Chicago) Loyola University Chicago is a campus committed to addressing climate change and making climate impacts on natural and social systems a key aspect of social justice teaching. In the…
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Let’s Lead on Climate: Higher Education Success Story, Santa Fe Community College
Preparing the Workforce of the Next Generation for Green Jobs A student gets a tour of SFCC’s adsorber, which converts solar energy into chilled water Santa Fe Community College is committed to addressing climate change as an invaluable component of Santa Fe’s 25-year Sustainability Plan. The College established the SFCC Trades and Advanced Technology Center…
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Let’s Lead on Climate: Higher Education Success Story, California State University, Northridge
A President’s Commitment Dianne F. Harrison, Ph.D., president of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has been a vocal and visible leader regionally, nationally, and across her campus on sustainability and climate change awareness. Shortly after Harrison’s arrival at CSUN in 2012, she made sustainability one of eight planning priorities for the university, and in 2013…
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ecoAmerica Launches Local Climate Engagement Programs with National League of Cities & Local Government Commission
Today, ecoAmerica announced the launches of partnerships with two major organizations, the National League of Cities (NLC) and the Local Government Commission (LGC), to accelerate local climate leadership. Through the Path to Positive program, both partners are activating mayors and other local leaders to lead on climate and engage their communities on solutions. “NLC and…