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Mapping, tracking and quantifying effective environmental activism. View the data and add your group/campaign to our database www.theenvironmentalmovement.org Visit our substack https://theenvironmentalmovement.substack.com.
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Check out www.influencetracker.org - a portal to explore network connections between Australian groups and individuals listed on lobbying registers and other influence databases.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Group focus:🌍 The Australian Youth Climate Coalition has run 47 campaigns nationwide that we have recorded so far.

Our database shows young people are doing more than protesting - they're running sophisticated, targeted campaigns for climate action.

Explore their work: theenvironmentalmove...
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Who are we? The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is Australia’s largest youth-run organisation, our mission is to build a movement of young people leading solutions to the climate crisis. Young people have the most to lose from global warming, but we also have a lot to gain. Climate change is our best opportunity to create
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June 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Group focus:☀️ Solar Citizens has launched 52 campaigns across Australia, and that's not even including recent years. This makes them one of our most active energy groups.

They're proving that organised advocacy can accelerate the solar transition at scale. Check it out: theenvironmentalmove...
Solar Citizens
Australia has some of the world’s best solar and wind resources, so we reckon powering our lives with cheap renewable energy is a no-brainer. For over a decade we’ve brought together everyday Australians to grow and protect clean technology like rooftop solar and electric vehicles. Now, with more than three million solar rooftops glinting across
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June 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
📊 DATABASE SPOTLIGHT: GetUp! has run 133 environmental campaigns across Australia before 2022 - making them our most active group by far.

From climate action to conservation, they've been everywhere, and played a huge role in social change in AU.

See their full profile: theenvironmentalmove...!
GetUp!
The GetUp movement is driven by the hopes and values of everyday people. By combining the power of one million members, movement partners, and a central team of expert strategists, we do what it takes to make an extraordinary impact. GetUp members come from every walk of life, and are united by a shared belief
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June 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ARN believes every advocacy group deserves quality research support! Whether you need campaign analysis, policy research, or community data - our volunteer researchers are ready to help Oceanian movement groups create the change they want to see. Check out advocacyresearch.org today. 🔍
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June 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Campaign wins:🤝 "A Real Deal for Geelong" shows how climate action connects to housing, work, and community care.

They talked to 200+ locals to understand that climate isn't separate from daily struggles - it's all connected.

Explore their approach: theenvironmentalmove...
A Real Deal for Geelong
Building power from the ground up to ensure no-one is left behind. A collaborative response to the challenges faced by our community. Geelong Sustainability is part of an alliance of unions, faith groups and community organisations who have been meeting regularly to discuss how to win a Real Deal for Geelong. A Real Deal for
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June 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🔥 JUST PUBLISHED: After Woodside got the green light, what now?

Our analysis of 32 past campaigns against Big Gas in Australia reveals the uncomfortable truth about what actually works (spoiler: it's not what you think).

New issue: theenvironmentalmove... 🧵
After Woodside
What past campaigns against Big Gas tell us about what to do next
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June 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Campaign wins: 🌳 VICTORY: STEP successfully protected the Blue Gum High Forest in St Ives!

One of our database's "campaign goal achieved" success stories - showing that local conservation efforts can actually win against development pressure.

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Blue Gum
Blue Gum High Forest. In 2007 the Blue Gum High Forest Group, a coalition of concerned groups, won their long- running campaign to protect the Blue Gum High Forest in St Ives. They: - succeeded in having the Blue Gum High Forest ecological community listed as critically endangered under Commonwealth legislation - campaigned
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June 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🎯 Want your environmental campaign to actually work?
Our data on 1,500+ campaigns reveals 4 key factors that separate success from failure:
✓ Clear, measurable goals
✓ Appropriate targeting
✓ Strategic flexibility
✓ Resource alignment
Deep dive in our latest substack: theenvironmentalmove...
Does environmental activism succeed?
A deep dive into what makes a campaign, what they focus on, and what they achieve.
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June 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🌞 CROWD-FUNDED SUCCESS: The Blue Mountains Renewable Energy Coop actually achieved their goal.

They crowdfunded a solar system for Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre - proof that grassroots solar initiatives can work when communities come together.

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Crowd Funded Campaign for Solar System on Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre
SUCCESS: Winmalee solar funded by community. By Erland on 14 May 2016 in Community We’re incredibly excited that our crowd-funding campaign to donate a solar system to the Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre is now complete! A very special thanks to the many amazing and generous people who chipped in to help a local community organisation run from
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June 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
🗺️ We analysed 4,000+ enviro groups and found something fascinating: activism in Australia vs New Zealand vs Pacific Islands are completely different. Geography isn't just shaping WHERE activism happens—it's shaping WHAT activism looks like. Check out the surprising patterns we discovered 🧵
June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🌿 We mapped 3,100 environmental groups across Australia and discovered something surprising: there was a massive surge in 2005, then... 2019 happened. What do these patterns reveal about how environmental activism really works? The data tells a story beyond the protests. 🧵
Beyond the banners
What 3,100 environmental groups tell us about activism in action
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June 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Climate change hits marginalised communities hardest - but their voices are often left out. Check out this research by Michelle Prasad is grounded in justice and equity, and shares stories and strategies from First Nations and CALD climate leaders commonslibrary.org/first-nation...
First Nations and Multicultural Voices from the Climate Movement
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
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May 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What messages can motivate climate action? Imagining a future scenario that involves oneself or close others. This provides valuable guidance to help campaigns move beyond their current focus on information sharing to prompt action #climateaction
Great information for motivating both private and collective climate action: interventions that targeted two or more mechanisms—such as imagining a future scenario that involved oneself or close others—were most effective & substantially more effective than sharing info www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS
Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Our research hub uses big data to explore connections between environmental activism and environmental change. Here's the first of our newsletter series, introducing our approach and thoughts on what activism impact actually is. theenvironmentalmovement.substack.com/p/effective-...
Effective activism
We know we need it. But what actually is it?
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May 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM