In his online post on Climate Rage yesterday, Paul Krugman cites ecoAmerica's American Climate Values Survey (ACVS). In trying to discern the cause for all the anti-environmental and climate anger, he references the ACVS and it's finding that environmentalism, and climate especially, are feminine. Krugman suggests that this and anti-intellectualism are two culture issues at the heart of the "climate rage."
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The U.S. Green Building Council named ecoAmerica as one of the recipients of the 2009 Leadership Awards. ecoAmerica was recognized, along with AASHE and Second Nature, for signifying vision, leadership and commitment to the evolution of green building design and construction. Meighen Speiser, ecoAmerica's VP of Marketing, went to Phoenix on Friday, Nov. 13th to receive the award during the 2009 Greenbuild Conference.
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Please vote for ecoAmerica's Community College Green Jobs Initiative and help us win $15,000! ecoAmerica has applied for a grant from Free Range Studios, a creative design and social influence agency for $15,000 worth of their services in order to truly catalyze student participation in this program. Voting is taking place now and remains open until December 1st. Help ecoAmerica win this grant by voting, and we will create the 21st century American workforce!
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The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at
Columbia University and the American Psychological Association have both
recently released comprehensive research reports on the psychology of climate
change. Both of these pieces of
research can inform and enhance any communications on climate. Those of us who
work to change awareness, attitudes and values on climate change, will find them
both interesting, informative and helpful in our work.
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Last Thursday saw the release of a new Pew survey on public attitudes toward climate that revealed some hard news: only 57% of respondents think that there is solid evidence that the Earth is getting warmer (vs. 71% in April 2008). Robert Perkowitz, President of ecoAmerica, discusses this trend, how organizations like 350.org are challenging that trend, and why other organizations and companies need to pick up the pace.
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At ecoAmerica, we designed several programs aimed at the higher education audience. Our hope was that by starting with people and focusing on opportunities and benefits, that we would catalyze a transformation of the higher education sector. Forbes recently released its report on America's Greenest Collegest, acknowledging the sector's momentum and using two ecoAmerica programs as criteria: the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment and The Princeton Review's Green Rating.
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This week, The Princeton Review announced the second annual
College Green Ratings, which we helped them launch last year. We are thrilled
to see that number of schools participating in the survey increased by 30% (697
this year vs. 534 last year), representing another positive metric. ecoAmerica partnered with the Princeton Review, known for its test-prep
courses, books and website resources helping students choose and get in
to colleges, to develop the Green Rating which measures the environmental practices most relevant to students and parents in the college selection process.
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