Voices
In This Series
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![Hurricane Irma slams into Miami]()
![Hurricane Irma slams into Miami]()
Climate change will destroy communities. Let’s help them move now.
Planned relocation will be expensive, but rebuilding in a flood or fire zone is even more so.
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![Youth activists discussing policy]()
![Youth activists discussing policy]()
Young people can do more than organize. We can also help make climate policy.
Youth climate councils give activists a way to influence the policies that their generation will be tapped to implement.
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![Tongass national forest]()
![Tongass national forest]()
America’s ‘climate forest’ is under attack. Biden can protect it.
Alaska’s Tongass forest was protected for nearly 20 years, then Trump reopened it for business. Now, nine Alaskan tribes and several climate orgs are calling on Biden to restore the Roadless Rule.
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![Women holding plastic bag]()
![Women holding plastic bag]()
We need a global leader on plastics. Could it be Biden?
Trump isolated the U.S. from global climate efforts, but Biden can move quickly to collaborate, especially on the plastic problem.
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![Voting booth teetering on a rock in the ocean]()
![Voting booth teetering on a rock in the ocean]()
Voter suppression is a climate justice issue — and 2020 is the tipping point
It’s going to take everyone to address the systemic racism that enables voter suppression tactics.
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![Citizens should have more say in their city's transit needs.]()
![Citizens should have more say in their city's transit needs.]()
How COVID is paving the way for participatory transit planning
This year is proving to be a transformative one for public transportation, despite more Americans staying at home.
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![Young man dancing in front of art-covered wall]()
![Young man dancing in front of art-covered wall]()
Dear Gen Z, to protect your right to protest, you must exercise your right to vote
Big oil and other polluters are counting on young people to not show up at the polls. Let’s prove them wrong.
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![Indigenous person in the Arctic]()
![Indigenous person in the Arctic]()
Acknowledging Indigenous land is the first step in taking better care of it
Our people’s tradition of mutual respect and cooperation is what will drive innovative climate solutions.
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![Young evangelical praying]()
![Young evangelical praying]()
Young evangelicals used to be skeptical of climate change. Not anymore. And we’re voting.
This election year, millennials and Gen Z are expected to comprise nearly 40 percent of the eligible voting population.
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![Environmental justice protest illustration]()
![Environmental justice protest illustration]()
If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy
It’s time for strong commitments to racial justice from every corner of the climate movement.
