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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