Media & Events
In the News history
The View
Why Activist Benji Backer Says We Need to Change the Narrative on Climate Change.
NBC
The Hill
Fox News
New York Post
NPR
Climate hasn’t been core to the GOP. These conservatives are trying to change that
Today, Explained (VOX)
It’s not easy being a green conservative.
The Free Beacon
The Right Response to the Environment.
The New York Times
I’m a Conservative. We Need to Make the Environment Nonpartisan.
Underreported Stories with Chrissy Clark
Can Conservatives Believe in Climate Change?
NPR's Here & Now
Conservative Republican argues for bipartisanship on the environment.
The Daily Caller
America has a foreign energy habit, but we can break it.
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.
The American Conservative
The Practical Environmentalist.
Washington Examiner
Pro-growth economic policies counter climate change rather than contributing to it.
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.
The New York Times
I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want my Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change.
Manhattan Institute Podcast
Capitalism Can Save the Environment | Benji Backer.
Newsweek
In the Fight Against Climate Change, Don’t Forget Rural America | Opinion.
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.
Fox News Radio
Make Nature Nonpartisan Again with The Janice Dean Podcast.
Washington Examiner
Conservatives must reclaim earth day.
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.
Todd Starnes Show
Benji Backer, founder and executive chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, is on at 2:35 ET.
Starts with Us
Fox News Radio
Common Sense Solutions For A Sustainable Future hosted by Kennedy Saves the World.
Isabel Brown Show
The Albuquerque Journal
‘The Conservative Environmentalist’ proposes bipartisan climate solutions.
The Cool Down
Three nonpartisan climate solutions that receive conservative support: ‘Don’t think we agree on anything? Think again…’
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.
Chamber Business News
Author of new book The Conservative Environmentalist says conservation, love of environment is at heart of conservatism.
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.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Iowa / June 18, 2024
Iowa Conservative Energy Dialogue / June 18 / Registration link
San Diego / May 29, 2024
Ducks Unlimited National Convention / Registration Link
Seattle, WA / May 23, 2024
University of Washington / Registration Link
San Diego, CA / May 16, 2024
UC SanDiego / Registration Link
Virtual / May 13, 2024
America’s Future Virtual Conversation / Exclusive to AF National Members, Sign Up!
Washington, DC / May 15, 2024
Nuclear Energy Policy Forum / Registration Link
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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