Sentences with phrase «largest grassroots movement»

Born in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has grown to become the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment, inspiring individuals, communities, businesses and organizations in more than 170 countries and territories to take tangible climate action for over a decade.

«Fair Elections for New York is coming off an intense six - month campaign that has built the largest grassroots movement for election reform that this state has ever seen,» the release states.

La Via Campensina, one of the world's largest grassroots movements, is holding their seventh International Conference this July to advocate agroecology as the path towards Food Sovereignty.

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In the end, the book is a fascinating glimpse into a grassroots political party that has become the largest in New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogether.

«The craft beer community is at its most critical moment since its inception as larger brewing corporations have bought into our grassroots movement, irrevocably changing the marketplace.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

However, grassroots action is beginning to build up into a larger movement.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

Father Edwin Gariguez was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2012 for leading a grassroots movement against a large - scale nickel mine to protect Mindoro Island's (a major island in the northwestern Philippines) biodiversity and indigenous people.

This question led to the first ever legal hackathon in 2012 and became the impetus for a movement that has become the largest grassroots legal innovation community in the world, with more than 75 chapters on 6 continents and over 10,000 members.

The unprecedented grassroots energy from the Planned Parenthood community and the larger reproductive rights movement helped stop the ACA repeal bill from even leaving the House.

Others in the group include Julie Daniluk, host of The Healthy Gourmet; social entrepreneur Kelly Drennan, who is dedicated to greening the fashion industry; Rob Grand, owner of Canada's largest green lifestyle retailer, Grassroots Environmental Products; Ryan Wiseman, who has been active in the green / environment movement for 15 years; and Wayne Roberts, who manages the Toronto Food Policy and is a member of Toronto's Environmental Task Force.