Citizens Climate Radio Ep 1 Beginnings and Transformations
Welcome to the first episode of Citizens Climate Radio. In this podcast we highlight people’s stories,
we celebrate your successes, and together we share strategies for talking about climate change.
Our theme this month is Beginnings and Transformations. We bring you an intimate, moving, and at times hilarious conversation with Marshall Saunders, founder of Citizens Climate Lobby, and Mark Reynolds, the executive director. They reveal their origin stories. Highly ambitions and successful businessmen, they seemed unlikely candidates to head up an organization that puts relationship-building and climate advocacy at its heart.
You are at a party, perhaps a graduation party or something for work or it really doesn’t matter. You are chit-chatting, and you let drop that you are concerned about climate change. You say you are involved in a group that is pursuing solutions. The person you are chatting with, let’s call her Claire, smiles and says, “Well, I too am concerned about climate change, but really I think there are much more pressing issues that we need to address.”
How might you respond in a way that opens up the conversation? See if you can offer an answer that affirms Claire while moving her closer to climate change advocacy.
Get back to Peterson by July 15, 2016. You can email your answers to radio@citizensclimate.org or call and leave a voicemail at 570.483.8194. Peterson will read/listen and respond to all of your messages. He will then share the best answers in our next episode which airs July 25, 2016.
