Environment California

Environment California

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organization_name = Environment California
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founded = 1970's
location = flagicon|USA Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
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fields = Environmentalism
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homepage = [http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/ www.environmentcalifornia.org]

Environment California is a 501(c)(4) non-profit political organization that lobbies for environmental legislation in the U.S. state of California and on a national level. [ [http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/ Home - Environment California ] ]

History

Environment California was formed by the California Public Interest Research Group in 2003 to take over its environmental work. [ [http://www.ffpir.org/enviro.html The Fund For Public Interest Research ] ] Since becoming an independent organization, Environment California has lobbied for increased federal funding of national parks and keeping state parks open. [ [http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/ Home - Environment California ] ] Additionally, they supported the Million Solar Roofs Bill in 2006 and the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2007. [ [http://environmentcalifornia.org/energy/million-solar-roofs Million Solar Roofs - Environment California ] ]

tructure

Environment California works with the Fund for Public Interest Research (FFPIR) to recruit members and run campaigns across the state through canvassing offices. The funding that results from this is used to hire staff who conduct research, coordinate statewide campaigns, hold press conferences across the state, and lobby in Sacramento and Washington D.C. on a variety of environmental issues.Fact|date=March 2008

Canvassing

FFPIR runs canvassing offices in a partnership with Environment California to raise money and build citizen support for the group. [ [http://www.fundforthepublicinterest.org/ Fund for the Public Interest] ]

Bernadette Del Chiaro, Director of Environment California’s Clean Energy Program, defends the political value of the group's door and street fund raising in an official website created to respond to criticism. She states that in her experience this type of canvassing “absolutely elevated the issue in terms of public awareness, which, in turn, made it clearer to decision-makers that they needed to act”. [ [http://www.canvassingworks.org/canvassingworks/2006/09/bernadette_del_.html Canvassing Works: Bernadette Del Chiaro, Environment California, Energy Advocate ] ] A 2003 study of random canvass offices by Columbia University sociologist Dana Fisher charges this fund raising model with mistreating idealistic young people by using them as interchangeable parts and providing them with insufficient training. [Fisher, Dana. Activism, Inc.] Canvass staff that work on campaigns for Environment California are employed by its parent organization "FFPIR". [ [http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/jobs/career-positions Career Positions - Environment California ] ]

References

See also

*Environment Oregon


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