Infographic: A Field Guide to the U.S. Environmental Movement

InsideClimate News 2014-04-07

Summary:

The 10 organizations leading the environmental movement collectively have 15 million members and and an annual budget of more than $525 million.

By Katherine Bagley

The 120-year-old U.S. environmental movement has undergone a tectonic shift and resurgence over the last several years, spearheaded by the failed legislative effort to cap carbon emissions in 2010. In the aftermath of that debacle, some the biggest environmental groups reshaped their missions—supplementing inside-the-Beltway campaigning with grassroots organizing and civil disobedience action not seen in this country since the 1970s. New groups from the hyperlocal to the national and global were born.

Today the 10 organizations driving the modern green wave—profiled in the infographic below—collectively have 15 million members, 2,000-plus staffers and annual budgets of more than $525 million to advance environmental agendas at the local, national and international levels.

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Tags:

activism

Authors:

Katherine Bagley

Date tagged:

04/07/2014, 08:20

Date published:

04/07/2014, 02:00