Climate-Concerned
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Climate advocacy groups
Climate Advocacy Groups Worthy of Involvement and Support
Interested in contributing your time and/or money to support climate advocacy? Below are four organizations offering different ways to meaningfully participate in effective advocacy efforts. (Click on any of the logos to go to their websites.)
Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers focus on building the political will in Congress to support national bipartisan solutions to climate change. Since Congress has the leverage to make the greatest change, focusing on it leads to especially meaningful work.
CCL has a chapter in almost every congressional district in the country. The chapters train and organize volunteers to:
- Lobby members of Congress in support of key climate-related bills
- Educate and build partnerships with local business and community group leaders to support key bills
- Engage with and influence the media to report on the climate and related legislation
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Currently, CCL is advocating for passage of:
- Carbon fee and cash back dividend legislation, which would put a price on carbon and return all the revenues to individual households.
- BIG WIRES bill to strengthen the electrical grid by ensuring that regional energy operators can back each other up during energy crunches.
- Prove It act to initiate the data collection necessary to develop a carbon border adjustment tariff.
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Volunteers:
- Meet regularly with members of Congress and their staffs to discuss pending legislation
- Write letters and opinion pieces in support of legislation
- Meet with local business and community groups to enlist their support for legislation
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Volunteers contact climate-concerned potential voters by phone, postcard, and door-to-door canvassing, urging them to vote in federal and state elections.
This nonpartisan effort uses data analytics and predictive modeling to identify millions of registered-to-vote environmentalists by name and address. It then uses public voter files to focus only on those who do not regularly vote in 19 states where EVP feels its efforts can have the greatest impact.
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By contacting these seldom/never voters who are environmentally concerned, EVP hopes to stimulate them to become regular voters. The message is strictly nonpartisan, not endorsing any individual candidates. Volunteers receive specific names and addresses of targets for postcard and canvassing efforts. For phone banking efforts, volunteers working from home receive live calls when the target picks up the phone.
The Climate Action Now app makes it easy for you to express your climate concerns to your political representatives and governmental leaders.
The app sends you a daily prompt about a current climate topic, such as:
- Tell the president to put a price on carbon
- Tell the EPA to close all loopholes in the Proposed Methane Rule
- Tell your members of Congress to cosponsor the BIG WIRES act
The app provides text embedded in an email automatically addressed to each appropriate party. You can simply hit "send" or you can edit it first.
Founded in 2021 by Bill McKibben and others to encourage climate-concerned people over 60 years old to campaign for a sustainable society and planet.
Third Act working groups are organized geographically in about two dozen states, as well as by affinity groups such as lawyers, educators, and faith groups.
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The groups focus on get-out-the-vote efforts to elect leaders who prioritize climate action.