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CONNECTICUT GREEN AMENDMENT

Resources

Resources To Help You Lead in Connecticut

The Connecticut Environmental Rights Amendment (CTERA) is Connecticut’s version of a Green Amendment.  To help you get up to speed and engage others, here are a few Connecticut specific resources:

More of a watch and listen learner? View the CT ERA-Green Amendment training series posted on the Green Amendment Action Platform.

  • Training 1 is titled: Connecticut Basics & FAQs.
  • Training 2 is title: How to Communicate About the Connecticut Amendment

Not on the Action Platform yet? You can join the platform via web link on your computer or via an app on your mobile phone:


2024 Connecticut Green Amendment Press Conference – March 22, 2024


Other helpful videos include:


Green Amendments For Climate & Clean Energy

Green Amendments are a powerful tool for helping to address the climate crisis, including by advancing good quality clean energy projects.

A special forum of experts was held to dive in on how and why.

You can watch the forum and learn from the panel of experts here (scroll down past the agenda and speaker bios until you find the video), on the Green Amendment Action Platform.  Not already on the platform? You can sign up for the Action Platform here.


An Emmy Nominated Show

 the Green Amendment bookHere’s The Story, an Emmy nominated show that premiered in 2011 and is produced by acclaimed journalist Steve Rogers, is now featuring a two part show featuring the Green Amendment movement. The show joins Maya as she explores the history of the Green Amendment movement and meets with environmental, political and legal leaders key to the movements past, present and future. Among those interviewed is NJ Governor Phil Murphy, PA Senator Franklin Kury who originally conceived of the idea for PA, and the chief justice who wrote the iconic opinion that helped launch the movement.

You can watch the show, see Facebook live chats with some of the key players, and see the full interviews that were conducted as part of the show here: Here’s the Story: The Green Amendment.


Help Us Secure Green Amendment Protections in Connecticut & Nationwide

Your donation today will help us do the work, provide the expertise, inspire supporters and take on the challengers so that every person and community in Connecticut and nationwide can have a true RIGHT, that is enforceable, to a clean, safe & healthy environment.


Factsheets and Materials

The Green Amendment Concept

Environmental Justice Values of a Green Amendment

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