Posted on August 13, 2024
Donations spotlight: Support Earth Guardians as it presses for youth-driven climate action
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This August, Earth Guardians is among three amazing groups that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO community will help Earth Guardians train diverse youth to be influential leaders at the forefront of the climate movement around the globe.
Read this important blog post about Earth Guardians’ critical work, then visit CREDODonations.com and cast your vote to help send funding to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding August grantees.
For nearly three decades, Earth Guardians has been at the forefront of empowering and developing youth and young adults into climate justice leaders. Founded in 1992, Earth Guardians is an international intergenerational organization dedicated to training youth at the intersection of climate, environmental and social justice. Our mission is fueled by a commitment to youth agency, community building and nonviolent direct action, employing art, civic engagement and grassroots projects to address climate change and environmental degradation around the globe.
Our unique strength lies in engaging our network of global Crews in community-driven action while shaping young people into climate justice professionals. With a youth-led team that is predominantly under 30, BIPOC and female, our internal leadership emphasizes diversity and empowerment.
We prioritize underserved communities, providing our network with resources and training to promote a holistic approach to climate justice. Our achievements and ongoing programs reflect our dedication to nurturing the next generation of leaders and protecting Mother Earth for generations to come.
Major impact over the years
Over the past five years, Earth Guardians has made significant strides in initiating youth-led climate solutions and campaigns. We have provided educational resources to 20,000 classrooms across the U.S., equipping educators and students with tools to understand and address climate change. Our global reforestation efforts are monumental, with over 50,000 trees planted across Africa, India and Brazil, restoring ecosystems and combating deforestation. Additionally, we have disbursed $85,000 to support youth-led grassroots projects, significantly benefiting local communities through initiatives such as community gardens, renewable energy projects and environmental education programs.
In 2020, during COVID-19, we distributed $10 million worth of PPE to Native American tribes, safeguarding vulnerable communities. Our voter registration campaign successfully registered 25,000 young voters, ensuring their participation in decisions that impact their future. We have also guided youth across the U.S. in resisting fossil fuel pipelines and supported numerous climate-related lawsuits, empowering youth to take legal action against environmental injustices.
Since 2015, our youth leaders have participated in key events including the Conference of the Parties (COP), the United Nations National Assembly and U.S. Senate hearings, amplifying their voices on critical platforms and advocating for meaningful climate action. During COP27, we initiated our Choose Action Now Campaign with 76 global actions, mostly led by women of color and directly benefiting 40,000 individuals.
Achievements in the past year
In the past year, we’ve achieved significant progress. Our Crew in Togo planted 14,000 trees, restoring a 37-hectare community forest in Tagba and training 250 locals in sustainable agriculture. Our EG Cameroon Crew planted 5,000 trees in community forests and our Crews in India planted 12,000 mangroves. On Sherbro Island, in Sierra Leone, we established 10 mangrove nurseries with 10,000 seedlings each, installed 200 honeybee hives, trained 234 people in beekeeping and are on track to plant 100,000 mangroves to combat climate change.
This spring, we hosted the fourth annual Indigenous Youth Leadership Development Training outside of Washington, D.C., for Native American climate leaders. We also continue to provide virtual live masterclasses and one-on-one mentorship to our Crews throughout the year. Additionally, we’re in the process of allocating $30,000 to support 60 grassroots sustainable-development projects led by EG Crews worldwide.
Our programs at a glance
Central to our efforts is our Crew network made up of youth-led chapters that address local environmental challenges while contributing to the global climate movement. EG Crews are actively engaged in climate and environmental protection projects across six continents, including large-scale restoration projects in Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Togo, Odisha, Mexico City and São Paulo. Our Crews’ work, guided by EG’s leadership team, encompasses sustainable agriculture, ecosystem management, forest restoration, water preservation and wildlife protection.
To support these initiatives, we offer EG Crews Resources like Project Grants. These grants fund our Crews’ projects, providing monetary resources to underserved communities to support those most affected by climate chaos. Additionally, we offer online and in-person training, educational resources, partnerships and global campaigns to support the work of our Crews network. We also provide targeted mentorship to all our Crews through our Regional Crew Council, comprising seven members who offer personal guidance to Crews in their respective global regions.
Our Indigenous Youth Leadership Initiative supports Native youth in North and Central America through leadership training focused on environmental justice and Indigenous rights. Like Crews, this program provides education, mentorship and a robust support network, helping Indigenous youth build sovereignty and tackle climate and environmental injustices affecting their communities.
Lastly, our Speakers’ Bureau program amplifies the voices of inspiring Earth Guardians youth speakers at major events, conferences and educational institutions, driving urgent climate action. This year, through our Speakers’ Bureau, we launched Earth Voices: Inspiring Shift to target underserved youth in U.S. inner cities and engage them in climate justice efforts. This initiative features EG public speakers who address the climate crisis by involving students in direct-action activities and supporting the creation of school-based Crews to combat the adverse physical and mental health impacts of climate change on youth.
Your vote matters
Join us in our mission to empower youth and protect our planet by voting for Earth Guardians and supporting our transformative climate justice programs—your vote makes a difference for future generations. Thank you.
To learn more about Earth Guardians, go to EarthGuardians.org.
Posted on August 9, 2024
CREDO funding supports the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to ensure equitable disaster recovery for marginalized communities
When marginalized people most need help, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy makes sure they get it. That’s why CREDO Mobile supports CDP.
CDP mobilizes philanthropy to enable all communities to withstand disasters and recover equitably when they happen. It allows donors to give with the knowledge that their gift will empower marginalized communities to rebuild and recover stronger. It does this by ensuring that the communities are engaged in recovery as agents rather than objects of assistance.
With the climate crisis causing more frequent and more severe natural disasters, CDP’s mission is more urgent than ever. No longer are devastating hurricanes, wildfires and floods once-a-generation events, they now strike often, wiping out lives and entire communities with frightening regularity.
Take tornadoes. From January to April 2024, there were 547 tornadoes in the U.S., almost double the average from 1991 to 2020. Tornado alley is growing and putting millions more people in harm’s way. And “tornado clusters” are now a thing, with multiple twisters at once tearing through regions. A series of powerful storms in the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day weekend killed at least 26 people.
CDP’s Tornado Recovery Fund helps communities hit by tornadoes. Donors contribute to the fund knowing that their gift will be targeted to long-term, equitable recovery. The fund prioritizes:
- Assistance for Black-led and women-led organizations that have or can build trust networks with survivors.
- New housing that’s affordable, as well as housing repair and utility support, especially for low-income people in communities of color
- Improved response capacity and infrastructure to minimize future impacts to marginalized communities.
- Investment in equitable and holistic programs to equip communities that have limited resources and low organizational capacity with the means for future disaster recovery.
CDP doesn’t do airdrops and photo ops. It puts in time, and taps the knowledge and experience that resides in communities affected by disasters. It relies on local populations, particularly marginalized people, for guidance, because they’re best-positioned to recognize the path toward equitable recovery.
CREDO support of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Our donation has helped the recent growth of CDP’s relief operations. With CREDO support, CDP has been able to expand its efforts through improved education programs and through its own grantmaking.
Since February, CDP has made 19 grants to disaster-recovery efforts around the world, with a focus on low-attention crises, underfunded disasters and marginalized populations. CDP has also produced and promoted seven webinars and published 35 blog posts.
Together, CREDO and CDP are making a difference
When disasters strike, it’s marginalized people who suffer most. Wherever they are, CDP reaches them and delivers the long-term, equitable recovery they need. And it does so with support from CREDO funding.
If you’re a CREDO customer, thank you for helping CDP minimize the human impact of disasters worldwide. If you’re not a customer, please consider joining now. You’ll get all you want from a phone company: the nation’s top-rated network, competitive plans and great deals on new devices.
And you’ll get much more. You’ll get an easy, effective way to make a difference in the world by generating much-needed donations for progressive nonprofits dedicated to the causes you believe in, like the environment, human rights and economic equality.
To learn more about the critical work CDP does, go to DisasterPhilanthropy.org.
Posted on August 9, 2024
You’re Invited: August Events
Black Voters Matter | Texting Tuesday with Black Voters Matter | Tuesdays starting 8/13 6pm ET | Virtual
Join us at 6pm ET every week as we gather to drive change through digital organizing. Our texting campaigns will give you the opportunity to engage residents across the U.S. while empowering them to make a positive impact in their communities. Register here.
Super Majority | Majority Leaders Speaker Series Lineup | 8/14 8pm ET | Virtual
https://www.mobilize.us/supermajorityef/event/633823/
Close out the 2024 Majority Leaders Speaker Series with a session about the young people getting themselves on the ballot and into elected office, the struggles they’ve faced as they’ve worked to get a seat at the table, and the efforts they’re making to ensure that progress continues.
Black Voters Matter | Postcard Party | 8/22 6-7pm ET | Virtual
https://www.mobilize.us/blackvotersmatter/event/601254/
Join our virtual postcard parties on Zoom! With other volunteers, you will create personalized messages to remind individuals of the POWER that they hold in their communities. We will provide training and the platform for you to submit your message.
Fair Fight Action | Volunteer for Democracy | Various | Various
https://www.fairfight.com/lfgv
As our democracy faces unprecedented challenges, Fair Fight is proud to launch the LFG (Volunteer) campaign. We’re empowering everyday Americans to support voters and protect our democratic process from election deniers and conspiracy theorists trying to tear our country apart. With the stakes higher than ever, we need your help to ensure fair and free elections in 2024, so LFG(V)!!!
Rainforest Action Network | Summer of Heat – Feminists Fight Fossil Fuels | 8/25 2PM New York, NY
https://www.summerofheat.org/week11
This week we honor the women, femmes, and non-binary people of all genders who are at the forefront of fighting against fossil fuels and for a livable future. There is no feminism without climate justice!
Black Voters Matter | Voicing Our Power: A Conversation Series with Volunteers, 3 event series on Wednesdays starting 8/28 | 6-7pm ET | Virtual
https://www.mobilize.us/blackvotersmatter/event/638454/
Through this conversation series, we are bringing real discussions from our volunteer community! From August – October we will discuss issues that matter to us like economic justice, anti-DEI, and affordable housing while being honest about how we feel about voting.
Animal Legal Defense Fund 32nd annual Animal Law Conference | 10/18-10/24 | Portland, OR and Online
Attend the 32nd annual Animal Law Conference, taking place October 18–20, 2024, in Portland, OR, USA, and online. The Animal Law Conference, co-presented by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School, is the country’s premier animal law conference, convening experts from around the world to explore current and emerging topics in animal law. Learn more about the conference and register now!
Women’s March | National Women’s March | November 2 | Washington DC and Everywhere. 3pm ET (for the Washington DC March)
https://act.womensmarch.com/survey/Action_November2_MarchPledge/ This November, we must deliver a clear message to those who threaten our rights, freedoms, and futures. Pledge to join us in Washington, DC, host a GOTV event or a local march in your city.
350.org | Don’t Burn Our Future: Clean Power Now! | Saturday 8/10 11AM | Burlington, VT
https://actionnetwork.org/events/dont-burn-our-future-clean-power-now
On August 10th from 11 to noon, Vermonters will call on utilities and elected officials to urgently move away from outdated and dirty energy infrastructure in favor of a clean and affordable energy future.
350.org | Own Your Power – say NO to another utility rate increase! | Monday 8/12 9AM | Carson City, NV
https://actionnetwork.org/events/own-your-power-say-no-to-another-utility-rate-increase
We need YOU to help us make a big impact at the upcoming Public Utilities Commission’s hearing because they are proposing to raise the utility rates of Northern Nevada residents.
350.org | PUCO: Stop Shutting Off Our Power! | Tuesday 8/13 12 PM | Cincinnati, OH
https://actionnetwork.org/events/puco-stop-shutting-off-our-power
Join Communities United For Action (CUFA) as we rally to demand the the Public Utility Commission of Ohio do its job and ensure Power For the People by taking action to end shut offs!
350.org | Energy for Everyone: Affordable, Clean and Safe Energy in Chicagoland | 8/14 – 8/16 10:30 AM | Chicago, IL
https://actionnetwork.org/events/energy-for-everyone-affordable-clean-safe-energy-in-chicagoland
We will be holding a rally/press conference to hold utilities, especially Investor Owned Utilities (IOU’s) accountable for their actions.
350.org | Energy for Everyone: People over Profits | 8/14 11:00 AM | Oakland, CA
https://actionnetwork.org/events/energy-for-everyone-people-over-profits
Join us in taking action and telling PG&E that everyone deserves access to affordable, safe, reliable, renewable energy!
Posted on August 8, 2024
Donations spotlight: Help Health Care Voices make U.S. health care work better for all
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This August, Health Care Voices is among three amazing groups that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO community will support Health Care Voices to advocate for affordable comprehensive health care and make our health care system work better for all Americans.
Read this important blog post about Health Care Voices’ critical work, then visit CREDODonations.com and cast your vote to help send funding to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding August grantees.
In 2017, Laura Packard, a stage 4 cancer patient, stood up at a town hall held by Dean Heller, Nevada’s conservative U.S. senator, and challenged him on his support for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “Why do you not care about the lives of thousands of Nevadans and millions of Americans?” she asked. “Why are you voting for me to lose my health coverage? Without it, I will die.”
Packard was kicked out of the event after asking the question but she went on to form Health Care Voices to help other health care activists and people living with serious medical conditions make their voices heard in health policy debates. This is a huge population:
- One in four adults in the U.S. has some type of disability and more than 135 million Americans have preexisting conditions.
- In 2022, 26 million Americans were uninsured. That’s 7.9% of the population. Many struggle with disabilities and serious medical conditions.
- More than 40 million Americans are underinsured and their high out-of-pocket costs mean they can’t afford the health care they may need.
The tens of millions of us with disabilities and preexisting conditions should have a voice in health care policy debates. But you know what always happens. Industry groups with huge lobbying budgets prevail and ordinary people have to struggle to be heard. Many disease-specific and condition-specific advocacy groups are funded by Big Pharma, which restrains their advocacy on affordable drugs, or by Big Insurance, which restrains their advocacy on insurance reform.
Health Care Voices gives patients and activists a voice in health care reform. We train and lift up grassroots advocates to get maximum impact with their own health care stories, becoming trusted media sources, reaching people in their own communities and influencing policymakers. Too often, decisions are made on our care without involving people who will be directly affected. Our free media trainings help diversify that public debate.
Our large-scale online media trainings are available for anyone to watch, an evergreen resource for people across the progressive movement. The resources we offer for free would cost tens of thousands of dollars as a paid media training and that’s out of reach for most small nonprofits or individuals. See our past public media trainings, including topics like how to write a letter to the editor, testify to your legislature and talk to a reporter, here.
Health Care Voices has also organized around state-level and federal-level bills, urging lawmakers to make new laws that strengthen patient rights and the health care system.
This year, our successes include working with the Protect Our Care Illinois coalition to rein in insurance companies by passing the Healthcare Protection Act. The Healthcare Protection Act puts Illinois patients first by ending junk insurance, banning step therapy—a process by insurers override your doctor’s choice of medications and force you to try other medications first—banning prior authorization for crisis mental health care—so you can get help right away, rather than fight with your insurance company first—improving network adequacy—no more provider lists of doctors who don’t take your insurance or don’t even exist—and ending unchecked rate increases for large group insurance companies.
We’re currently working with Pennsylvania Health Access Network on two bills to stop large hospital systems in Pennsylvania from driving up health care costs. HB 2344 will create a process for monitoring hospital acquisitions and closures that takes community members’ voices into account and protects local communities’ access to care. HB 2339 will give Pennsylvanians more information when they seek medical care by requiring hospitals to publish their prices and notify patients in advance of facility fees.
That’s not all we do. Care Talk, our call-in streaming show and podcast, offers expert advice to educate viewers on how to personally navigate the U.S. health care and health insurance system and deepen their understanding of the structural forces at work that keep Americans from getting care. We plan to relaunch Care Talk this fall to keep our audience up to date on threats to health care access and opportunities to improve it.
By training and informing people who are already navigating the U.S. health care system through serious medical conditions, we help build a movement of grassroots advocates ready to respond to threats to existing health care protections and to lobby for improvements to the system.
Together we’re making health care more affordable and more accessible to Americans than ever before and working toward health care for all.
This month, you can vote to help CREDO Mobile distribute a portion of its monthly grant to Health Care Voices and help our work with health care activists around the country.
Learn more about the vital work of HCV at HealthCareVoices.org.
Posted on August 1, 2024
Donations spotlight: Support VoteRiders in its work to ensure that all citizens can exercise their right to vote
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This August, VoteRiders is among three amazing groups that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO community will support VoteRiders in its work to help citizens secure their voter ID and ensure that no eligible voter is prevented from casting a ballot due to voter ID laws.
Read this important blog post about VoteRiders’ critical work, then visit CREDODonations.com and cast your vote to help send funding to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding August grantees.
As Americans prepare to head to the polls this November, they’ll face new and stricter voting laws that have been ushered in by an unprecedented wave of legislation since the last presidential election. Voter ID laws have been front and center in this wave, making it harder, more confusing and more costly for people to cast a ballot. 38 states have voter ID laws in place for the 2024 election—more than ever before—and a whopping 18 states have passed new or stricter ID laws since 2020.
VoteRiders is the country’s leading organization focused exclusively on helping citizens overcome the confusing, time-consuming and expensive barriers created by voter ID laws. Since 2012, we’ve helped millions of voters cast a ballot that counts.
We know firsthand the impact that these laws can have—and who they most harm. Voter ID laws particularly impact young voters, communities of color, people with disabilities and low-income individuals. Women who change their name upon marriage or divorce, as well as transgender and nonbinary voters, also face powerful challenges related to voter ID laws. These communities are disproportionately represented among the estimated 34.5 million Americans who don’t have an ID or don’t have one that reflects their current name, address or gender.
Voter confusion around ID laws is also at an all-time high. Our recent research found that over half of voters residing in states with strict photo ID laws aren’t sure what they need to bring to the polls. We also know that confused voters, who are unsure about ID requirements in their state, may stay home even though they have what they need to cast a ballot.
As litigation efforts play out in court and advocacy efforts continue over time, VoteRiders and our allies are in a race against time. Our staff, which consists of more than 1,600 historical partner organizations and over 10,000 volunteers, is working across the country and around the clock to ensure that the millions of voters who don’t have the ID information or documents they need to cast a ballot get everything they need in time for upcoming elections.
Our goals this election cycle are ambitious. We’re committed to a bigger-than-ever outreach campaign that will directly reach at least 10 million voters with ID information and free help before Election Day.
Our voter ID assistance programs provide free help to eligible voters to obtain state-issued IDs and any necessary underlying documents like a birth certificate. We cover all costs along the way and offer free transportation to and from ID-issuing offices. Our staff organizes Voter ID clinics at places like shelters, food banks and community resource fairs, meeting voters where they are. We operate a year-round Voter ID helpline and chatbot and recently established a network of Voter ID assistance hubs, which support local partner organizations to independently offer ID help to the communities they serve.
When we help people secure an ID, we support them to unlock not just their freedom to vote but also to live and thrive. An ID is often the key to employment, housing, healthcare and more.
In parallel, our voter ID education programs help voters understand ID requirements and empower them to cast a ballot with confidence. We distribute millions of state-specific Voter ID information cards and maintain a comprehensive website offering up-to-date voter ID information and tailored guidance. Our staff leads webinars and presentations on voter ID laws, we engage in community outreach and tabling, and we mobilize volunteers year-round to text and write letters to millions of at-risk voters.
With the stakes for this coming election at an all-time high, it’s more urgent than ever that all of us step up now and do all we can. VoteRiders is ready to scale our work even further but we can’t do it without you. As a nimble and highly effective nonprofit organization, we rely on our supporters to help us expand our reach. VoteRiders has gained recognition for its impact and professionalism, achieving the support of major institutions and receiving perfect marks from the nonprofit rating groups: Charity Navigator, Candid (formerly GuideStar) and the Better Business Bureau.
This August, you can vote to tell CREDO Mobile to distribute a portion of its monthly grant to VoteRiders. Together, we can make a difference and ensure that no eligible voter is left behind.
Learn more about VoteRiders at VoteRiders.org or via social media. Follow us @VoteRiders on all platforms.
Posted on July 31, 2024
Vote for Earth Guardians, Health Care Voices and VoteRiders in August
Every vote makes a difference. This month CREDO Mobile is supporting 3 amazing progressive nonprofits. How the donation is allocated is up to you and your vote.
Earth Guardians
Earth Guardians is an international trailblazer in youth development for climate justice solutions, especially among marginalized groups and those most affected. We utilize education, training, community building, and direct action – shifting power into the hands of the next generation. Your vote will help us train diverse youth to be influential leaders at the forefront of the global climate movement, using art-vism, civic engagement, non-violent direct action, and community-led regenerative solutions. Support grassroots climate justice solutions today!
Health Care Voices
We’re a grassroots group of health care advocates for affordable comprehensive health care, fighting the high cost of care in America, and making our health care system work better for all. We stay independent by never taking money from Big Pharma. Funding from CREDO will help bring back our weekly streaming show, CareTalk, answering your questions about navigating the U.S. health care system, and help us offer more free online media trainings for activists like you to make your voices heard.
VoteRiders
VoteRiders seeks to ensure that no eligible voter is prevented from casting a ballot that counts due to voter ID laws, either directly from lack of acceptable ID or indirectly because of voter confusion. Funding from CREDO members will help ensure that millions of voters in the 38 states with voter ID laws have what it takes to cast a ballot. Your support will also help these individuals use their new IDs to gain access to employment, housing & more!
Voting is quick, easy and free. Be sure to vote by the end of the month.
CREDO Mobile customers who use our service everyday are the reason we are able to make these donations each month. Learn more about CREDO Mobile and help make progressive change every time you use your phone.
Posted on July 31, 2024
July’s Grantees thank you for your support
In July, CREDO members voted to distribute our monthly donation among Planet Reimagined, Slow Food USA and Supermajority. Three great nonprofits all working for a better world. We are proud to partner with them. We are so thankful for our CREDO Mobile customers. When our customers use their CREDO Mobile service, they generate funds for our donations program.
Planet Reimagined
Thank you for joining the climate justice movement! Donations from CREDO members reinforce the much-needed resources to unite and mobilize climate experts, policymakers, businesses, young climate leaders, and broad audiences for measurable impact. – Adam Met, PhD; Planet Reimagined Founder & Executive Director; 8X Platinum Artist as the A in AJR
Learn more about Planet Reimagined and their mission to fight the climate crisis and deliver fair solutions for people and the planet here: https://www.planetreimagined.com/
Slow Food USA
Thank you to the CREDO community for supporting our work to make food more local, sustainable, worker-centered and delicious. Your advocacy for Slow Food USA empowers our network of fierce volunteer leaders and talented food producers! – Bilal Sarwari, Interim Executive Director
Learn more about Slow Food USA and their work to create a food system that prioritizes the preservation and promotion of good, clean, and fair food here: https://slowfoodusa.org/
Supermajority
Thank you for voting for Supermajority! CREDO members are helping us reach and inspire young women to get civically engaged. Building our collective power would not be possible without the support of partners like CREDO’s donation program! – Taylor Salditch, Executive Director
You can learn more about Supermajority and their work to mobilize young women here: https://supermajority.com/
Now check out the three groups we are funding in August, and cast your vote to help distribute our donations.
CREDO Mobile customers who use our products are the reason why we are able to make these donations each month. Learn more about CREDO Mobile, the phone company that is better for all people and the planet. If you are not a customer, please consider switching your service to CREDO Mobile. If you are already a customer, thank you and do tell your friends. No other company has a community centered donations program like this.
Posted on July 29, 2024
Solve this puzzle and change the world
Here’s a puzzle: What phone company is best for you?
The answer is easy: CREDO Mobile.
We’re the only phone company that has donated over $95 million to the progressive causes you care about, like women’s rights, climate action, LGBTQ+ equality and many more.
Like the sound of that? Talk to us at 1-866-996-4341.
Join CREDO today and you can get a $100 prepaid card, when you bring your phone to CREDO Mobile. It is as easy to switch as when your first Wordle guess is 4 greens.
You’ll also get a great rate on the plan you want, the nation’s most reliable network and fast, friendly customer service.
CREDO Mobile. Not a puzzle. A solution.
Posted on July 23, 2024
Switch today, change tomorrow: Join CREDO Mobile
What do you see here?
We see the future. We see 18 diverse, dynamic nonprofit groups working to make our world what it should be: more free, more fair, more sustainable.
That’s why we funded them. In the first half of the year, we donated to these 18 non-profits. And we’ll donate to 18 more non-profits working for a better world in the second half of the year.
This is what we do: give millions in funding to progressive nonprofits fighting to make our world a better place.
Some of them are old, some new. Some big, some small. They’re fearless, like Advocates for Trans Equality. They’re timely, like Reproductive Freedom for All. They’re urgent, like Black Voters Matter.
They all deserve support, so we give it. Because we’re not only a best-in-class mobile service. We don’t just offer a variety of affordable plans, deals on new devices, and the nation’s top-rated network.
We’re more than that, much more. We’re a community of people who care deeply about our future and are dedicated to making it better.
Join us. Be part of our movement.
Posted on July 23, 2024
Tuna surprise: Eating canned fish is one of the best ways you can fight climate change
If you’re of a certain age, you might remember the days when canned tuna was a regular purchase at the grocery store—and made regular appearances on the dinner table, in dishes like tuna casserole, tuna salad and tuna-stuffed tomatoes.
Those days are gone. Consumption of canned tuna has dropped by almost half over the past three decades.
There are various explanations for the decline. The tuna industry blames millennials. “A lot of millennials don’t even own can openers,” Andy Mecs, VP of marketing and innovation for StarKist, told the Wall Street Journal, adding canned tuna to the long list of foods millennials have killed, from raisins to mayonnaise to American cheese.
A climate ripe for canned fish
Now, though, canned tuna is rising again, along with other canned fish, like anchovies and sardines. The reason is climate change. Canned fish is the lowest-carbon animal protein there is. It doesn’t need energy for refrigeration, doesn’t go bad and is very sustainable compared to other sources of animal protein.
The food we produce and the way we do it is a major contributor to climate warming. It must be grown, processed and shipped to market, and all of these put carbon into the atmosphere. Around one-third of the greenhouse gases that humans emit are connected to our food and the biggest contributor of carbon emissions is meat production.
If you’re concerned about climate change and want to modify your eating habits to help the climate, there are various steps you can take. You can go vegetarian or vegan. If you want to keep eating meat—or a reasonable facsimile—you can buy plant-based “meat.”
Or you can push your cart over to the canned foods aisle and toss in some tinned fish. Wild fish provides you the most protein with the least carbon emissions. And when it’s canned, it’s even better, because it needs no refrigeration and never ends up as food waste because it never spoils.
Wild fish don’t need feed, which is a large source of emissions in the livestock industry. Fish also don’t need any of the energy inputs that cows, pigs and chickens do. Further, fish don’t belch methane. In total, the catching of wild fish produces only 4% of emissions from global food production and the catching of those fish that go into cans produces a scant 2%.
The sustainability question
Of course, if we’re going to rely on fish as a way to address climate change, we must ensure that wild fish populations are not exhausted by overfishing. Currently, just 16% of wild fisheries are certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council.
And then there’s the fact that wild fish are very sensitive to climate change and warming oceans. Which means that, if we want to enjoy wild fish in the future—canned or fresh—we need to take climate action whenever and wherever we can.
The phone company that fights for our climate
To save our climate, we must change. Not only how we eat but how we shop, how we get around, how we live our lives. Always, we must make choices that work for our planet, not against it.
Here’s a choice you can make now: CREDO Mobile. Join us and, just by using your phone, you’ll generate vital support for nonprofit groups fighting for climate action. Groups like 350.org, Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity. To date, we’ve given over $20 million to these climate warriors and many others.
Our donations are automatic—and they cost you nothing extra. But they mean everything the groups that rely on us.
Ready to switch? Ready to take the urgent action our climate needs? It’s easy to do.
Join CREDO Mobile and you’ll get all you want from a phone company: competitive rates, great deals on new devices and nationwide coverage on the top-rated, most reliable network. You’ll also get the good feeling that comes with taking climate action—just by using your phone.
