Sentence examples for environmental organizers from inspiring English sources

At least two leading environmental organizers have been prosecuted in recent weeks, and several others have received sharp warnings to tone down their criticism of local officials.

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On the same day, in Kabul, the Environment Minister of Afghanistan and other senior officials joined youth environmental organizers in the first grassroots-mobilizing event on climate change in the country's history.

The assets that I had going into the fray were the accumulated vacation time that I had built up for being a workaholic environmental organizer over the past two and half years at Sierra Club, the campaign organizing skills that I developed there and in my previous activism, and the invaluable network of forward thinking folks I had gotten to work with and know in the process.

The announcement of the planned solar panels on the roof at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which would be used to heat water and generate a small amount of electricity, came just a few weeks after the White House rebuffed an environmental organizer who tried to present the White House with a panel from an array installed by President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s.

"Kind of ironic," Cameron Vass, an environmental organizer, told me, "the guy with unlimited vacation physically has no time to talk about it".

The impulse to protect her own children from climate threats initially motivated labor and environmental organizer Lisa Hoyos to enter the climate fight.

The roster includes community organizers from across the country: one from a Texas environmental organization, another from the Alaska Public Interest Group, a third from Ozone Action in Washington.

This is the first major lesson for environmental movement organizers: when people rise up they rise up because of unbearable socio-economic circumstances -- oppressive, corrupt regimes, austerity measures, and aggressive assaults upon their economic and civil rights.

But the scars are also armor for this Sierra Club environmental justice organizer in Texas.

This label comes as no surprise to Rhonda Anderson, who grew up just north of Delray and has become an environmental justice organizer for the Sierra Club's Detroit branch.