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The View

Why Activist Benji Backer Says We Need to Change the Narrative on Climate Change.

NBC

Conservative environmentalist discusses the politics of climate change.

The Hill

Conservatives DO CARE About Climate Change, Some Young GOPers Are TRYING To Change The Narrative.

Fox News

Conservative Approaches Are Key To Climate Solutions.

New York Post

How the government is hurting environmentalism.

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NPR

Climate hasn’t been core to the GOP. These conservatives are trying to change that

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Today, Explained (VOX)

It’s not easy being a green conservative.

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The Free Beacon

The Right Response to the Environment.

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The New York Times

I’m a Conservative. We Need to Make the Environment Nonpartisan.

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Gingrich 360

Newt talks with Benji Backer about his new book, “The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future.”

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Underreported Stories with Chrissy Clark

Can Conservatives Believe in Climate Change?

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Richard Nixon Foundation

During his first State of the Union address, delivered in 1970, President Nixon designated the environment as the defining issue of the new decade. Benji Backer joins the Richard Nixon Library to share more.

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NPR's Here & Now

Conservative Republican argues for bipartisanship on the environment.

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The Daily Caller

America has a foreign energy habit, but we can break it.

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FOX 5

Benji Backer is “The Conservative Environmentalist.”

Real america's voice

How Best to Approach Clean Energy.

Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V

Benji Backer offers climate crisis strategies from his perspective on the political right.

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Carbon Brief

I’m a young conservative, and I want my party to lead the fight against climate change.

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The American Conservative

Washington Examiner

Pro-growth economic policies counter climate change rather than contributing to it.

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A Book with Legs

Activist Benji Backer joins Cole Smead to discuss “The Conservative Environmentalist,” which makes the case for the economic benefits of the strategic merging of conservative values and environmental sustainability.

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The New York Times

I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want my Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change.

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Manhattan Institute Podcast

Capitalism Can Save the Environment | Benji Backer.

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Newsweek

In the Fight Against Climate Change, Don’t Forget Rural America | Opinion.

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Newsweek's Better Planet

Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji argues that both are dead ends. 

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Fox News Radio

Make Nature Nonpartisan Again with The Janice Dean Podcast.

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Washington Examiner

Conservatives must reclaim earth day.

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Epoch tv

Can the right rescue the conservation movement from climate change fanatics? 

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upfront with Matt Smith

Wisconsin native, conservative out with a new book ‘The Conservative Environmentalist’.

The Morning Wire

Finding Common Ground on Environmental Issues.

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Todd Starnes Show

Benji Backer, founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, is on at 2:35 ET.

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Starts with Us

Conservative Environmentalist Benji Backer Talks Polarization and the Pressures to Conform

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Fox News Radio

Common Sense Solutions For A Sustainable Future hosted by Kennedy Saves the World.

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The Free Mind

The Free Mind Center discusses the book, the ACC, and what it means to be a conservative environmentalist.

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Isabel Brown Show

The Albuquerque Journal

‘The Conservative Environmentalist’ proposes bipartisan climate solutions.

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The Cool Down

Three nonpartisan climate solutions that receive conservative support: ‘Don’t think we agree on anything? Think again…’

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Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Backer discusses a historical bipartisan approach to environmental issues and proposes a balanced pathway that leverages American ingenuity and respects local knowledge.

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Chamber Business News

Author of new book The Conservative Environmentalist says conservation, love of environment is at heart of conservatism.

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Walk-Ins Welcome Podcast

4-Term Congresswoman, U.S. Army veteran, and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard sits down with Bridget to talk about her new book, For Love of Country: Leave The Democrat Party Behind.

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Upcoming Events

University of Wyoming/ October 8 , 2024

Nature is Non-Partisan – A Conversation with Benji Backer/ Sign Up!

University of Colorado-Boulder/ October 9 , 2024

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Colarado Springs, CO/ October 9 -11, 2024

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Yorba Linda, CA/ August 27, 2024

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Iowa / June 18, 2024

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San Diego / May 29, 2024

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Seattle, WA / May 23, 2024

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San Diego, CA / May 16, 2024

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Washington, DC / May 15, 2024

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Virtual / May 13, 2024

America’s Future Virtual Conversation / Exclusive to AF National Members, Sign Up!

Washington D.C. / May 1, 2024

The Conservative Environmentalist: The Right’s Past and Future Place at the Table / Sign Up!

Charlottesville, VA / April 29, 2024

UVA Blue Ridge Center / Sign Up!

New Book:

The Conservative Environmentalist

Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two  approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Executive Chairman and Founder of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he delivers an entirely new strategy to take care of the planet while putting put the  economic interest of the American people first.  

Backer makes the compelling case that conservative principles are the key to climate solutions that  actually work. In this book, you’ll visit the country’s most diverse ecosystems and consequential  manufacturing hubs—from Utah coal mines and Texas oil fields to Louisiana wetlands and Rhode Island  offshore wind farms—witnessing the power of individual entrepreneurship and local problem-solving.  You’ll be inspired by groundbreaking efforts to strengthen earth’s ecosystems (that Green New Dealers  and other Big Government advocates would prefer to keep hidden), like partnerships between oil and gas  companies and environmental nonprofits to preserve thousands of acres of wetlands.  

Drawing on cutting-edge science, a deep understanding of local community needs, and his experience rallying politicians on both sides of the aisle to take action, Backer offers hope for everyone who cares about the state of the great outdoors. Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, The Conservative Environmentalist is the fresh, audacious approach needed to ensure a sustainable future, and particularly one that works for America.

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