Is Voting the Highest Form of Environmental Citizenship? Re-broadcast with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Nathaniel Stinnett discussing the importance of voting as a form of environmental citizenship.

I recorded this interview with Nathaniel Stinnett, the founder of the Environmental Voter Project, in the summer of 2016. While there are lots of differences between this election cycle and that of 2016, the ideas that Nathaniel shared remain relevant and important today. The Environmental Voter Project has dramatically expanded it’s capacity and scope since 2016, and now has an expansive reach, with ground operations in 19 states and more than 10 million potential voters contacted. Earth to Humans has changed a lot since 2016 as well. When we released this episode, the podcast was still called “Eyes on Conservation” and I was the sole producer, churning out episodes almost every week. When I launched the podcast back in the fall of 2014, I imagined it as an outlet to share the audio from unused interviews originally recorded for various documentary projects, but it quickly evolved into something much more than that. I feel extremely fortunate to now have the opportunity to work with an amazing team of producers that bring a far more diverse and interesting slate of stories to the show than I would be capable of producing on my own. But when prompted to dig into the archives for…

People in this episode

Host: Matt Podolsky

Guest: Nathaniel Stinnett

Topics covered

• environmental citizenship
• voting
• politics
• environmental advocacy
• history of the podcast
• civic engagement

Keywords

• voting
• environmental citizenship
• Environmental Voter Project
• civic engagement
• podcasting history
• Matt Podolsky
• Nathaniel Stinnett
• environmental advocacy
• 2016 election

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Environmental Voter Project, Wild Lens Collective

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