Dear Climate Friend,

Thank you to our many members who took action prior to the election, from meeting with candidates to helping people register to vote to casting your own ballot. Collectively, we helped get candidates elected at the national, state and local level who will take action on climate change. But as we well know, that is not enough!

Now it is time to let those in office know that action is urgently needed.  This is particularly important at the state and local level, because that is where new policies can be implemented, their effectiveness demonstrated, and they can become models for other states and the nation as a whole. Our members in Florida, South Carolina and California are already experiencing the effects of climate breakdown. The recently released IPCC report and Fourth National Climate Assessment make it clear that, unaddressed, climate change will undermine our way of life even more broadly as early as the end of the coming decade. For the sake of those younger than us, for future generations and for ourselves as we become older and more vulnerable, we each must step up and take action in the coming year. There is momentum building across the country and your elder voice is an essential part of that. We welcome your greater involvement in ECA!

For the our grandchildren, future generations and all life,

Thank you to all those who made a contribution to ECA on #Giving Tuesday. Your gifts totaled $3,649.44 and got close to our goal! Will you give to help us surpass the goal?

But we have a bit more to go.

It’s nearing the end of the year and we are preparing for the year ahead. In order to achieve the climate action needed, on the tight timeline presented in the recent UN report, it will take all of us. We hope you will consider making a year end contribution to support Elders Climate Action, which will allow us to continue to build resources and opportunities for elders to get inspired, informed and engaged in supporting climate action on the local, state and national level in 2019.

Did you know that Elders (those 55+ and over) are the least likely population to care about and take action on climate change? Yet, elders are one of the most affected demographics of climate change. We are here to prove the data wrong and prove that Elders CARE about CLIMATE CHANGE!

Will you join us and take a stand on the climate crisis?  We are dedicated to proving that elders care and we are mobilizing to unify our voice, our vote and our choices to support climate action.



Building the political will towards climate action has mostly been left to the people. As the largest voting bloc in the United States we elders have the power to change the future for our grandchildren, future generations and all life.

Help us Reach our Goal of $5000 by December 31, 2018 to Jump Start ECA in 2019. Give now and support a legacy of change.

Consider a monthly gift and help support ECA’s efforts to build a movement of elders taking action on climate change throughout the year ahead.

We made great strides in Climate Action in 2018!

Our Highlights from the Year

2018 Election – ECA gets out the vote

Submitted by Paul Dryfoos

ECA Mass organized a partnership with the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) to encourage voter participation among strong environmentalists in five swing states – Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Georgia. Over the course of seven weeks leading up to the election, the ECA team of 54 volunteers contacted over 100,000 Florida voters, and over 130,000 voters overall. The ECA team focused primarily on Florida because it is a key swing state where environmental protection is a top priority among voters. Our goal was to encourage voter turnout and get them to pledge to vote in all future elections.

 

We did this as part of a national campaign organized by EVP that has accrued three million voter contacts in the past year. We are not aware of any other outreach effort targeting environmental voters at anywhere near this scale.

 

Sincere thanks to everyone who joined the ECA GOTV team and thanks to EVP for their pioneering work in environmental voter identification and outreach.

 

We are just beginning to build a strong pro-climate, pro-environment voting bloc in this nation. Both ECA and the EVP are committed to this goal, and we had a pretty good dry run in 2018. Today is the day that we start building the environmental voter bloc for yet another "most important election of our lifetimes" in 2020. Stay tuned.

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Books for your Grandchildren

As the holidays near we thought you might like a little help finding great gift ideas for your grandchildren. Give a gift that starts a climate conversation in your own family.

Read about these books and find more book Ideas on our website -- With Your Grandchildren Section

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