How to Use environmentalism in a Sentence

environmentalism

noun
  • Aim to keep environmentalism a core part of your brand's story.
    — Shane Barker, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Environmentalism, at its heart, is about both people and places.
    — Jeff Manning, OregonLive.com, 25 June 2017
  • Nichols does not preach environmentalism nor rail against rampant growth in his essays, but the photographs do it for him.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • Francis — who took the name of the patron saint of ecology — stands out among popes in his push to make environmentalism a core part of the faith.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The problem is that some of them, like his environmentalism, have proved both popular and prescient.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • Kick's taste for the extreme was fed by her dad's eccentric environmentalism.
    — Hudson Morgan, Town & Country, 25 Dec. 2012
  • The other, overlapping strand of far-right environmentalism is more focused on land and soil.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Charles has done a lot of philanthropy work over the years, with a special focus on environmentalism and climate change.
    — Women's Health, 3 May 2023
  • However, a new wave of environmentalism has gained traction and may be the answer to this problem.
    — Wanjiku Gatheru, Glamour, 30 July 2020
  • Indeed, environmentalism and the fight against climate change have become a major part of his life story.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2018
  • The ports’ ban was a bid to re-regulate the industry under the guise of environmentalism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The snail darter -- once a flashpoint in the politics of environmentalism -- has been given a status change.
    — Ike Morgan | [email protected], al, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The mention of environmentalism brings to mind the cultish side of modern progressivism.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Let’s show that environmentalism is both global and local, and responding to threats both present and future.
    — Fatima Garcia Elena, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
  • His banjo and voice were now raised in service to the cause of environmentalism and the campaign against nuclear power.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • No, not money, but valuable green nonetheless, as in the green of environmentalism.
    — Editorial From The Aegis, The Aegis, 25 May 2018
  • That sort of forward-thinking environmentalism has been part of our brief since 1863.
    — Megan Amram, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps the most ironic debasement of the idea of conservatism is seen through the prism of environmentalism.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The problem is that misguided environmentalism is wasting the water windfall and failing to store it for a non-rainy day.
    — WSJ, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Ranadive believes the arena raised the bar on technology and environmentalism for sports venues.
    — Joe Freeman, OregonLive.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Her next book project will examine activism, environmentalism, and tourism on and around Red Cliff.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Will an army-less country known for its environmentalism become the next El Salvador?
    — Djenane Villanueva, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Texas is the country’s number one producer and consumer of energy, and environmentalism is not part of its brand.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The constant push-and-pull between California environmentalism and its oil fields came to a public head late last week.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president, claims that environmentalism is a left-wing plot.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
  • As with the queen, palace aides over the years have shared stories about Charles’s frugality, in his case grounded in ardent environmentalism.
    — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Over the past 30 years cap and trade has proved to be both relatively cheap and highly effective; a triumph of smart environmentalism.
    — Andrew McAfee, Wired, 22 Apr. 2020
  • These views might have remained at the fringes of environmentalism if not for the efforts of a British yachtswoman named Ellen MacArthur.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This account of mainstream environmentalism is more than a little reductive, at times even a caricature.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
  • López grew up in San Juan and spent the majority of her life there, so issues of colonialism and environmentalism are often in her thoughts.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024

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