Help get environmentalists to the polls


Bruce Jamison

CCL is collaborating with the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) as a way to engage in the election process in a non-partisan way. The project finds registered voters who are interested in environmental issues but do not consistently vote. You may think they are rare, but they exist in the millions. The goal of the project is to turn this group into regular, habitual voters. It does not engage in promoting any candidate or party.

Tony Sirna leads the Election Engagement Action Team. You can learn more about the Team and the EVP on their homepage. Much of the homepage is from the 2022 elections, useful but currently dated. The best way to find out how you can participate is to click on the forum discussions on the left side of the home page. There is a recent forum article from Tony that is particularly useful if you are wondering how to get involved.

The main activities are phone banking with a sophisticated dialer and writing postcards (appeals to go vote and how to do it). Both are directed at those environmentally aware voters who just don’t get to the polls. We are looking for people to organize phone bank parties and to staff national call centers, and, of course, callers and writers.

If you'd like to lead a phone bank, please view the training recording, read through the trainer guide, and let me know at brucecoryj@gmail.com.

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