Please invest in Our Daily Planet today, by making a one time or monthly contribution.
We do not charge our readers a subscription fee for our content. We want to continue to grow our readership, particularly among millennials and public servants. Voluntary contributions from readers will help us employ interns and freelance journalists, expand our content, and reach a larger audience.
If you make a contribution of $150 or more, you will become an official “Friend of the Planet” and receive a Friend of the Planet T-shirt or water bottle.
This week we were so excited to get to sit down with Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director and founder of the Environmental Voter Project, to get some insights about the recent election and what climate activists can learn from it. Nathaniel brings some truly valuable insight into who climate voters are, what happened with the Latinx […]
Continue Reading 186 words
Despite what Donald Trump says, fraud is not occurring in our vote-counting process. To state otherwise is incendiary and dangerous. What’s worse is that other Republican leaders have failed to denounce these claims that something nefarious is happening with our election. Hang in there everyone, let’s count all the votes. And an extra thank you […]
Continue Reading 80 words
When we filmed this interview on Thursday afternoon we still didn’t know the result of the presidential race, nor a handful of Senate races like in Georgia or North Carolina. But we do know some things: There’s a decent chance that the Senate is in Republican control–this could change if both Georgia U.S. Senate elections […]
Continue Reading 281 words
by Natasha Lasky, ODP Contributing Writer While most Americans believe that the climate is changing, and would like the federal government to take action, there’s a sizeable generational disparity in the level of climate concern. Eighty percent of voters aged between 18 and 29 consider global warming to be “a major threat to life on […]
Continue Reading 484 words
There’s still a lot that we don’t know about the results of this election and while it was a long night, here’s what we do know as of very early this morning: It was not a wave election and even if Biden does win, he will have to govern a very divided nation that rejected […]
Continue Reading 355 words
Last night’s vice presidential debate solidified one thing: that Republicans know their weakness on climate issues and that they’re going to try with all their might to breathe new life into the narrative that action on the environmental kills jobs. Even before a question was asked by moderator Susan Page specifically on the environment, Vice […]
Continue Reading 540 wordsSubscribe to the email that top lawmakers, renowned scientists, and thousands of concerned citizens turn to each morning for the latest environmental news and analysis.
