Lobbying
Laws, protections, and bans can help implement large scale structural shifts like nothing else. This also forces manufacturers and big business to comply with the laws and adapt to the changes that society accepts as the new norm. Nothing moves the needle like making local, state, or federal policy changes. If you are determined to make a difference go BIG. Lobby for change! The ripples Greta Thundberg is making at age 16 is mind blowing. Be the change you want to see.
THE POWER OF LOBBYING - THE GOOD & THE BAD - ARTICLES
Big Agriculture Bullies And Lobbies to Keep Americans in the Dark | Nancy Fink Huehnergarth | Forbes | May 5th, 2016
Californians Against Waste
Coke and Pepsi abandon the plastics lobby | Danielle Wiener-Bronner | CNN Business | July 30th, 2019
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition | Educate & Empower
Factory Farms | Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Factory Farms | Food & Water Watch
How 21 meddling kids could force a climate turnaround | Zoe Sayler | Grist | July 22nd, 2019
How the environmental movement can save the environment | Philip Bump | Grist | February 22nd, 2013
How to Participate in Politics | Ian Prasad Philbrick and David Leonhardt | New York Times
In order to 'feed the world' we must stop factory farming our animals| Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur | The Hill | October 15th, 2018
'It's our time to rise up': youth climate strikes held in 100 countries | Sandra Laville, Matthew Taylor and Daniel Hurst | The Guardian | March 15th, 2019
Lobbying Interests - Environment | OpenSecrets.org
Research: Who Is Lobbying Congress on Climate Change | Magali Delmas | Harvard Business Review | October 19th 2016
School climate strikes: 1.4 million people took part, say campaigners| Damian Carrington |The Guardian | March 19th, 2019
Students bring fresh wave of climate strikes to UK streets | Dominic Penna and Poppy Noor | The Guardian | April 12th, 2019
The Politics behind America’s Industrial Meat Industry | Savannah Kuper | Columbia University - Environmental News | April 2nd, 2014
'There is no planet B': best placards from the youth climate strike | The Guardian | March 15th, 2019
SOLO EFFORTS CAN BE EQUALLY POWERFUL
Greta Thundberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let go, I can’t’ | Jonathan Watts | The Guardian | March 11th, 2019
ORGANIZATIONS
Center for Biological Diversity
Friends of the Earth
Nature Conservancy
Ocean Conservancy
Rainforest Alliance
RESOURCES
Cal Recycle | Legislation & Regulations in California
EPA | Resource Conservation & Recovery Act
EPA | Laws & Regulations
EPA | Environmental Laws & Executive Orders
Humboldt University | Environmental Laws & Regulations
The Most Important New California Environmental and Health Laws of 2019 | Kelly O’Mara | KQED Science | January 2nd, 2019