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Environmental issues are some of the most pressing threats the world is facing nowadays. In this context, motivating individual pro‐environmental behavior becomes highly relevant. One strategy is to harness people's pro‐environmental dispositions (e.g., biospheric values, pro‐environmental attitudes). Although acknowledging the need to behave pro‐environmentally lies at the core of these dispositions, the extent to which they are reflected in day‐to‐day pro‐environmental practices fluctuates to a great extent. How to bridge this gap between dispositions and behaviors in pro‐environmentalism? This research tests a novel psychological solution, that is, to heighten subjective feelings of power. Power depicts people's control over their own and others’ outcomes. Two studies (total N = 338, with n = 200 in Study 1 and n = 138 in Study 2) manipulated people's situational sense of high versus low power (by recalling …