Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: Understanding Conservative Perspectives About The Inflation Reduction Act

Join CCL Conservative Outreach Director Drew Eyerly for a training that will help attendees understand the perspectives of conservatives about the Inflation Reduction Act and how to best engage conservative audiences around the clean energy, local jobs, and American innovation generated within the bill.

CCL Training: Understanding Environmental Justice Perspectives About the IRA

Join CCL's Director of Diversity and Inclusion Karina Ramirez, Student Engagement Manager Steffanie Munguia, and leadership from the Climate & Environmental Justice Action team for a training that will explore important perspectives and experiences from the environmental justice communities regarding some of the policy impacts surrounding the details of the Inflation Reduction Act and its implementation. 

 

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda

(7:30) What does the IRA offer

(22:30) EJ leaders share their views

CCL Training: Help Us Recruit Major Donors

Join members from our Development Team for a free, virtual conversation about how to find the fun in fundraising and how to recruit new major donors for our national work. 

We will be discussing:

• The importance of fundraising for our mission
• How to identify folks in your network who are likely to invest $1,000 or more in our mission
• How to make the “ask” yourself, and/or how to transfer leads of $10,000+ to the Development Team
• The very critical celebratory ritual for each secured donation 

After this 45-minute training, you’ll have all the tools you need to bring people into this work as new donors and actually enjoy the process while doing so!

CCL Training: The Climate Benefits in the Inflation Reduction Act

Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training on the Climate Benefits in the Inflation Reduction Act. Dana will discuss all the energy and climate items in the bill, how much it will reduce US greenhouse gas emissions, and the health benefits of the cleaner air that will result from the bill's provisions. We'll also be sure to review where things stand as of Thursday evening and how you and your community can take action to help ensure its passage. 🎉 

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:34) Background 
(5:30)What’s In the Bill On Climate?
(20:54) How Much Will It Cut Emissions?
(27:09) How Many Lives Will It Save?
(35:11) What Doesn’t It Accomplish?
(36:54) Taking Action

Slides: https://cclusa.org/inflation-reduction-act-slides  
Take Action: https://cclusa.org/action 
Find Out More: https://cclusa.org/nerd-corner 

#InflationReductionAct #ActOnClimate

CCL Training: A Fresh Take To Giving An Introductory Presentation To CCL

Join CCL Presenters and Schedulers Action Team Leaders Dave Cain, Irene Yang and Abe Mazliach for a webinar that will debut a new presentation slide deck that the Presenters Action team has been prototyping to provide a fresh take on giving an introductory presentation to CCL. We'll explore how to use the associated resources to prepare for your own presentation and demonstrate it in action.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:04) Introductory Presentation Approach
(7:58) Breakout Personal Story Elements
(10:45) Live Presentation Example
(21:45) A Studio You Can Use to Build Your Own
(33:38) Supporting You 

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/fresh-approach-presentation 
Download The Presenter’s Action Team “CCL Introductory Presentation Studio”: https://tinyurl.com/CCLIntroPresStudio 
Presenters Action Team: https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/973 

CCL Reconciliation Update: Let’s Pass The Inflation Reduction Act!

Join CCL's Executive Director Madeleine Para, Vice President of Government Affairs Dr. Danny Richter and Vice President of Organizational Strategy Tony Sirna for a briefing on the Inflation Reduction Act -what's in it, why CCL supports, it and how to take action with your chapter to help.

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(0:00) Introduction & Opening Remarks
(2:29) Legislative Landscape Update
(11:06) Q&A on Legislative Updates
(15:23) Taking Action w/ Campaign Details
(18:27) Additional Q&A
(22:50) Closing Thoughts from Madeleine Para
(26:35) A Reminder Of Who We Are

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/final-reconciliation-slides 
Action Campaign For Everyone : https://cclusa.org/action  
For Volunteers w/ Democratic Senators: https://cclusa.org/senate  
For Volunteers w/ Democratic House Representatives: https://cclusa.org/house  
Social Share Link: https://cclusa.org/share  
CCL's Nerd Corner Analysis: https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/discuss/viewtopic/1773/1810/25479 
Phonebanking Instructions For Chapters: http://cclusa.org/phonebanking-volunteers 

CCL Extended Q&A with Nathaniel Stinnett, Executive Director of Environmental Voter Project

Find out more and get involved at: https://cclusa.org/evp 

Wanted more time with CCL's July 2022 National Meeting Speaker? Join us for an extended Q&A with Nathaniel Stinnett from Environmental Voter Project. Nathaniel shares how his organization is changing the voting behavior of people concerned about preserving a livable climate. The Founder and Executive Director of EVP,  Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:23) EVP Background & Results
(19:00) Ways to get involved 2022
(25:43) Q&A: Are there studies showing more environmentally friendly politicians are being elected?
(29:03) Q&A: How does EVP know that specific people are environmental voters that don't vote?
(35:40) Q&A: What's your best elevator pitch to phonebank for a friend?
(37:19) Q&A: Where do you find hope?
(41:45) Q&A: Do you reach out to people on social media?
(42:28) Q&A: What about postcards?
(44:08) Q&A: What's the most effective outreach approach (phonebanking, texting, postcards, canvassing, digital ads?)
(50:00) Q&A: Does EVP have internships and which states do you work in?
(54:40) Q&A: When you founded EVP did you ever dream that it would be this big and important?

#climatevoter #climateaction #priceoncarbon #grassrootsclimate

CCL Training: Trees and Forests as Natural Climate Solutions

Join Dana Nuccitelli, CCL Research Coordinator, for a training reviews the need for approaches to remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, the role trees and forests can play, and the other benefits that those solutions provide. The training will provide a background on the need for carbon sequestration, how much carbon sequestration is needed, how much carbon sequestration can trees and forests provide, and other tree benefits and the importance of tree equity.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda 
(3:12) Why Forests?
(17:57) Forestry Solutions
(25:17) Forestry Opportunities, Challenges
(28:43) Tree Equity & Benefits 

Trees and Forests as Natural Climate Solutions Training Page: https://cclusa.org/forest-training 
Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/forest-slides 

CCL Training: How to Craft Conservative Climate Op-Eds

Are you a conservative or a constituent with a conservative member of Congress? This training, led by Nate Abercrombie, CCL's Conservative Outreach Coordinator, and Charlotte Ward, State and Local Media Coordinator, covers how to write effective op-eds focused on climate change with conservative framing and talking points. 

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:19) Why Write An Op-ed?
(4:14) Planning Your Conservative Angle
(9:30) The Writing Process
(17:01) Ideas & Examples
(22:58) Share Your Success & Writing Circle

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/conserv-op-eds 
CCL Training Page: 
https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/503 

CCL Training: Carbon Pricing and the Oil, Gas and Chemical Industries

Join Bill Bray, former leader of Team O.I.L., for a training on the impact of a rising price on carbon on domestic oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Bill will highlight how carbon pricing policy has the potential to drive massive investments and new job opportunities and provide a manageable transition with opportunities that other industries can also follow.  The training also discusses what the oil industry has expressed on pricing carbon in the past and how to leverage this training's information in your own local strategy outreach with industries in your district/state.

Presentation Slides: https://http://cclusa.org/team-oil-lessons 
CCL Community Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/155