Here at Environment North Carolina we don’t think you need to pay high-powered lobbyists to get your voice heard in the State House.

All you need is a clipboard.

This summer, hundreds of young people will learn about a campaign and head out in teams across the state to canvass for Environment North Carolina. You’ll probably meet one this summer if you’re home when they stop by your neighborhood. While it might seem like a small thing for just one person to renew his or her Environment North Carolina membership this summer, it truly adds up.

We’ll knock on nearly one hundred thousand doors this summer, andhave conversations with tens of thousands of Tar Heels across the state.

Those conversations will help to spread the word about Environment North Carolina, the new home of NCPIRG’s environmental work. They also help us expand our membership. Having members not only funds our day-to-day operations and campaigns, but it also gives us the political power to come through with concrete results.

Your support in past years helped us win the Clean Smokestacks Act, helped us protect the Arctic Refuge and kept the pressure on our elected officials to clean up North Carolina’s waterways.

This year—we hope—your contribution could make it possible for us to protect one million acres of open space (see article, front page), or pass the Clean Cars program (see article, page 3).

So when we knock on your door this summer, remember we’re on your doorstep to be where you need us—in the state house, in the halls of Congress and in the community. We’re fundraising so we can keep providing result-oriented grassroots advocacy for North Carolina.

We couldn’t do it without you. Thanks for your support and enjoy
your summer.

Elizabeth Ouzts
State Director