Endorsements
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
“Tipper and I love the Center for a New American Dream and applaud the work you’re doing.”
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
“The Center for a New American Dream is a bold and gutsy group. Through a combination of public outreach and well-targeted advocacy, the Center is forging the way toward a more equitable and sustainable future.”
Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
“I am proud to have written an open letter of endorsement for the Center for a New American Dream’s Turn the Tide program. I know this program can make a real difference.”
Danny Glover, actor
“The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans understand that the current model of overconsuming not only affects our quality of life and the environment, but is also an issue of social and economic justice. I strongly support this very valuable work.”
Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator
“The Center for a New American Dream shows the connection between protecting our environment and achieving social justice. Both are essential for the shrinking world of the 21st Century and both will be enhanced by the work of the Center.”
Meryl Streep, actor
“The Center for a New American Dream is an environmental group with vision, common sense, and best of all, a sense of humor. By challenging and inspiring people across the country to make simple but extremely important changes in their consumer behavior, the Center is helping to restore balance to both the planet and our lives.”
Barbara Kingsolver, author
“I believe with all my heart there is still time, and still hope, for Americans to reorder our lives around the ideals of kindness, community, and a sustainable life on our wondrous planet. The Center for a New American Dream offers a doorway through which any of us may enter, today, and live that better life.”
Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, Congresswoman - NY 12th District
“The Center for a New American Dream is one of the few groups that truly understands the links between improving quality of life, protecting the environment and promoting social justice. Keep up the great work.”
Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors
“The Center for a New American Dream is helping our common dreams come true -- the dream we won’t mindlessly consume all that is best about our world.”
Ed Begley Jr., actor
“The Center for a New American Dream is the perfect immunization against the ‘affluenza’ that is afflicting us all. An antidote to the orgy of consumerism that escalates unabated, year after year. They can help us find a way to live simply, so that others may simply live.”
Bill McKibben, author
"The Center for a New American Dream has hit on just the right mission and just the right tone: we can live happier lives, and when we do our communities, human and natural, will prosper as a result. If there's any more essential work underway, I don't know of it."
David Pittenger, executive director of the National Aquarium in Baltimore
"The National Aquarium in Baltimore believes that by connecting people to aquatic life we can make a better world for both. This is at the core of what we emphasize to our more than 1.6 million visitors each year. Turn the Tide's simple and measurable ways to conserve complement the lessons we emphasize with our visitors, empowering people to carry the spirit of the Aquarium into their daily lives and act on their connection with the natural world. We salute Turn the Tide as a partner in protecting our fragile blue planet."
Dr. Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall Institute
"Throughout my work in Africa and around the world, I have seen first-hand how people acting together also have the power to create positive environmental impact. Based on these experiences, I believe that informed and compassionate people must lead the way to improve the environment for all living things. Turn the Tide is a program of nine simple actions you can take that will have a positive, measurable, and effective impact on the earth. These are actions you can trust to make a real difference. They were gathered by the Center for a New American Dream - a respected national non-profit - in consultation with scientists and leaders in the field of conservation."
Worldwatch Institute
"We were drawn to Turn the Tide, which helps people to get started in doing their part to heal the earth and then to track their own progress and the whole "tide" of individuals working for change. While, through publications like State of the World and Vital Signs, Worldwatch is known for identifying the problems confronting our world, we are also very much interested in practical solutions. Turn the Tide offers that. This approach complements the Worldwatch mission of creating a sustainable future."
Sierra Club Sustainable Consumption Committee
"The American public often associates environmental harm with the practices of producers rather than consumers, but consumption plays a large role in environmental degradation. While the Sierra Club works to change environmentally harmful policies, the SCC is an agent for education on personal consumption choices that contribute to environmental sustainability, whether choices about how we get to work or the food we put on the table. Turn the Tide provides an effective and manageable guide to sustainable consumption choices that the SCC wanted to share with the Sierra Club members and activists."
EarthSave International
"EarthSave International inspired more than 80 Turn the Tide participants in their first month of partnership. Together, these individuals have already cut annual CO2 emissions by more than 40,000 pounds and saved more than 150,000 gallons of water. Why is Turn the Tide so effective? The nine steps are straight forward and easy to do. While the steps are simple, they are effective in making a positive difference on the environment."