Episode 31 - How To Reframe The Power Of Your Vote With Nathaniel Stinnett Of The Environmental Voter Project

We’re heading to the polls and chatting all about voting today on the Positively Green Podcast! We interview Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that aims to significantly increase voter demand for environmental leadership by identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.

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Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015 after over a decade of experience as a senior advisor, consultant, and trainer for political campaigns and issue-advocacy nonprofits. Hailed as a "visionary" by The New York Times, and dubbed "The Voting Guru" by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Formerly an attorney at the international law firm DLA Piper LLP, Stinnett holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two daughters.

Show Notes:

• How the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) got started
• The effect of COVID-19 on voter turnout this year
• Why does environmental policy always sit lowest on the voting totem poll?
• How EVP actually identifies, engages, and mobilizes inactive voters and the challenges that come with that
• Pressing environmental issues that exist right now
• Results that EVP has seen from their efforts

How To Get Involved:

• Volunteer or get involved here
• Make a donation here
• Sign the Environmental Voter Pledge

Resource Mentioned:

• Quinta MKE CSA box
• Grassway Organics
• Kelsey’s Holistic Home eBook (code positivelygreen for 15% off)

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