Sentences with phrase «grassroots environmental effort»

As Founder and President of Environmental Progress, Michael led the grassroots environmental effort to save nuclear power plants in Illinois and New York, which prevented an increase in emissions equivalent to adding 5.7 million cars to the road.

ESM 442 - Communication for Civic Engagement & Grassroots Organizing [2 units] Alario Reviews the role and effectiveness of grassroots environmental efforts on local, statewide, and national scales.

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The Conservation Alliance is an organization of businesses whose collective contributions support grassroots environmental organizations and their efforts to protect wild places where outdoor enthusiasts recreate.

This iteration began with a series of public programs that focused on ways in which grassroots efforts can come together to make a positive impact on environmental stewardship.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

Yesterday we looked at the big picture: how the grassroots environmental movements of the 60s were quickly co-opted by the New Left and the Democrat Party, while providing employment for the «environmental activism industry» that grew up around the environmentalists» efforts.

In the end, what's needed is atomic humanism — a reaffirmation of nuclear energy's transcendent moral purpose — and a grassroots, civil society effort to rescue humankind's most important environmental technology from the anti-humanists.

But the DOE paper itself, as well as subsequent debates about it, left out many important parts of the environmental movement and their contributions to keeping environmentalism alive: environmental - health advocates, the environmental - justice movement, the international «sustainability» movement, and the dozens of other grassroots efforts related to the environment.

Thanks to the efforts of grassroots campaigners like Yu, the human and environmental costs of a proposed mega-dam project on the Salween (Nu) river led Beijing to call off that project in 2004.