Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: Braver Angels Action Team - Opportunities for Mindful Bipartisan Communication

In this webinar, CCL Braver Angels Action Team co-chairs, Beth Malow and Bruce Morlan, along with Leadership Team member Arlene JM Grant, will highlight a national organization, Braver Angels, that is dedicated to healing our political divisions. The training will review how Braver Angels’ techniques and skills can serve our organization’s mission of bipartisan solutions to climate change. A research article summarizing one of the Braver Angels/Citizens' Climate Lobby workshops will be highlighted and participants will be provided with actionable opportunities for their local groups. 

Join Braver Angels here:  https://braverangels.org/ 

Join the CCL Braver Angels Action Team here:  http://cclusa.org/BAactionteam 
 
Register for our next BA/CCL Depolarizing Within Workshop on Sunday afternoon, January 29, 2023 here:  
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/braver-angels-depolarizing-within-communications-workshop-tickets-465366051387 

Read the Research Article on our Bridging the Divide on Climate Solutions workshop here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2022.100177 

Watch the Connecting During Lobbying Meetings Video here: https://vimeo.com/771224806 

CCL Training: CCI’s Recap of COP27

Join CCI Executive Director Joe Robertson and fellow staff for an update on what took place in Egypt and Citizens' Climate International's role in the ongoing negotiations.

CCL Advanced Training on Building Electrification & Efficiency

Join CCL Research Coordinator Jonathan Marshall for an advanced training about Building Electrification & Efficiency (as part of CCL's policy agenda) reviews the need to electrify and weatherize American buildings, why it’s important and answers frequently asked questions on the topic. Please also see our Introductory Training on this topic.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:44) What does “Building Electrification and Efficiency” (BE&E) mean?
(5:22) Why is it important for climate policy?
(13:15) How can it save building owners money?
(20:02) What policies support BE&E?
(25:11) How will CCL engage?

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/advanced-electricity-slides 
CCL's Policy Agenda: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/495 
Introductory Training: http://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/514 

CCL Training: Engaging New and Returning Members of Congress this Spring

Connecting with a member of Congress or their staff in the local district is an essential element to building relationships with Congress. Join CCL Senior Director of Government Affairs Jennifer Tyler and CCL's Legislative & Constituent Engagement Manager Kesten Bozinovic for a training that walks through the process of planning and setting up a successful activity with your member of Congress back home in your community. 

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:14) Legislative Strategy for Spring 
(10:30) Planning the Activity
(16:46) Examples of Activities
(26:27) Scheduling the Activity
(38:54) After the Activity
(42:12) Conclusion

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/spring-activities-2023 
In-District Lobbying Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/267 

CCR 80 Unleashing Our Imaginations for Climate Change Solutions

As climate advocates, we need to articulate what it is we are fighting for. What is the world we want to create? Engaging our imagination is essential to stirring up the kind of hope and excitement that inspires others to action. 

In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, three guests join us to help unleash our imagination potential: Hannah Pickard from the National Network of Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation; Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, a leader in environmental health research and board member of Citizens’ Climate Education and Physicians for Social Responsibility; and Sean Dague, a software engineer by day, a CCL group leader, and an En-ROADS Climate Simulation tool ambassador. 

These three guests conduct a thought experiment: Can you imagine a world without fossil fuels? What will it look, smell, sound, and feel like? 

You will also hear three new voices who have joined the Citizens Climate Radio team. Ruth Abraham, Lila Powell, and Zach Torpie are each recent college graduates. They share their reactions and responses to what Sean and Hannah have to say about engaging our imaginations in our climate change work. 

You can imagine this, too! Share your answers with host Peterson Toscano. Leave a voicemail at 518.595.9414. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.) You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org

Dig Deeper

• Video of Sean Dague’s Thought Exercise: Imagine a World without Fossil Fuels
• Hannah Pickard CCL International Call March 2020
• Peterson Toscano’s Citizens Climate Virtual Conference Breakout Session: Telling a New Kind of Climate Story
• Citizens Climate Radio Ep 39 Envisioning and Communicating Climate Success
• Climate Change and the Imagination by Kathryn Yusoff and Jennifer Garbrys (PDF)
• Imagining a world without fossil fuels | BBC Ideas. Study Guide. 

Resilience Corner

Once we are able to notice, accept and get help where we need it, we are more able to take action in ways that support our well-being.  Which brings us to our focus today on the next step: Practice.

Tamara Staton is the Education and Resilience Coordinator for Citizens Climate Education, and in this installment of the Resilience Corner she helps us to ask for the help we need.  

Get more tips and resources by visiting The Resiliency Hub. 

Women in the Wild

If you are a woman who has spent time alone camping, hiking, or in nature, the Citizens Climate Radio team would  like to hear from you. What was that experience like? What insights and advice do you have for women who want to explore natural places alone? If you have something to say, email us radio @ citizensclimate.org. 

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CCL’s Big Tent Climate Talks - January 2023 w/ Rewiring America

Join us for CCL's Big Tent Climate Talks, an engaging conversation that spotlights leaders in the climate community outside of CCL doing important work in building coalitions around effective climate solutions. 

Our January 2023 event features a conversation with Kyle Kammien, CCL Senior Business Relations Representative and Rewiring America's Senior Advisor Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres

At CCL, we know solving climate change requires a variety of policies and perspectives. That's why we do this work under a big tent that includes folks from the right, the left, and every spot in between. In our Big Tent Climate Talks, we talk to a wide variety of climate leaders outside of CCL to learn more about how we can all work better together.

These talks will take place quarterly for 40-45 minutes on the last Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm PT.
Register For Next Quarter’s Episode: https://cclusa.org/bigtent 

Join CCL: https://citizensclimatelobby.org 
More about Rewiring America: https://rewiringamerica.org/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewiringamerica  + https://twitter.com/citizensclimate 

Andrew Jones | Citizens’ Climate Lobby | January 2023 Monthly Meeting

What will it take to keep global warming below dangerous thresholds? Thanks to Andrew Jones and his team at Climate Interactive, we have answers to that question. They developed the climate simulators, C-ROADS and En-ROADS, that make it easy for users to see how combinations of various solutions will affect global temperatures. As Citizens' Climate Lobby explores legislation to address climate change, these simulators can show us how to get the biggest bang for our buck. (Spoiler alert: Pricing carbon has the greatest impact.)

In addition to being the director and co-founder of Climate Interactive, Andrew has worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute and Sustainability Institute. He currently teaches system dynamics at MIT Sloan and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

CCR 79 How to Tell a Climate Change Success Story

In this episode we look at climate stories that reveal the impacts of climate solutions. This is a harder story to tell because many of the best solutions are still on the table. In fact, you are working hard to get lawmakers and community leaders to take these solutions seriously and put them into practice. In 25 or 50 years we will be able to tell many stories about the beneficial impacts these solutions will have. But we need to tell these stories today. 

There are three different types of Climate Solution Impact stories you can tell.

1. The Current Solution Success Story
2. The Future Solution Success Story
3. The Solution Motivation Story

For examples of Current Climate Change Solution Success Stories, we hear from Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz and Yale Climate Connections. 

• A new solar-powered car designed to travel up to 40 miles on sunshine alone: That’s enough to cover many people’s daily commutes.
• Eight states, 30 cities team up to reduce flooding threat along the Mississippi: They’ve partnered with Ducks Unlimited to restore more than 60 wetlands that will hold floodwaters during storms.

To hear and read more of these stories visit Yale Climate Connections. 

 

The Future Climate Change Solution Success Story

This type of story relies on our efforts to envision and imagine the world filled with the solutions we advocate. We want to paint a picture of a future worth pursuing. When we succeed, we create a yearning in others for this better world. For examples of these, head over to the Clifi Imaginarium. Allison Whitaker tells us about the ways they take seemingly dry information about solutions, and turn them into compelling stories. Check out With Many Roots to read these Cli-fi solution stories and to learn about the free monthly Introduction to Climate Fiction on-line workshops. 

The Climate Change Solution Motivation Story

This story reveals why I am motivated to do the climate work I am doing. The story itself may not seem to have anything to do with climate change. Still this story goes right to the heart of my work. I will tell you one of my climate solution motivation stories. 

Citizens Climate Radio host, Peterson Toscano, shares one of his motivation stories, and shows us how to then pivot to climate change solutions and specific meaningful action. 

What you will learn in this episode

We can tell effective climate stories. There are two types of climate change stories. 

1. The climate change impact story--A story that reveals the dangers climate-changed induced extreme weather and other impacts have on our lives and the world. 
2. The second are the climate solution stories. We covered three different climate solutions stories. 
   1. The Current Climate Change Solution Success Story. This might be a story about a breakthrough in technology, a new important person or group who is on board in pursuing climate change solutions, or it can be about a solution that has been put into action.
   2. The Future Climate Change Success Story. This one requires your imagination to envision what the future will look like with solutions in place. This is a form of clifi, or climate fiction. 
   3. And finally the Climate Change Solution Motivation Story. This story reveals why you are so passionate about a particular climate change solution. 

Once you tell a compelling story about your motivation, the future, or climate impact, you can then do the Climate Change Pivot. Connect your story to the solution you are pursuing.  

But don’t leave them with just a pivot. Provide your listener with a specific, meaningful, and achievable next step. It might be as simple as asking, “Do you want to get together over coffee sometime next week to talk more about this?”

Do you want to learn more about climate storytelling and get some experience in a group? 

Join Peterson for a free on-line storytelling workshop January 17th 2023 8:00 PM Eastern. He will share activities and insights, and he will give feedback to participants about their stories. You will walk away with fresh inspiration in telling your compelling climate stories. It will be fun and informative. Click here to register for the training.

The Art House

Alan Gratz has written nearly 20 books for young adults including PRISONER B-3087, about  World War Two holocaust survivor and Refugee, which weaves togethers stories of three children from three countries escaping their countries in search of a new home.  In his latest book, Two Degrees, Alan takes on climate change.

He tells us about the challenges he had to overcome in writing about climate change, and how this book was much harder to write than his previous ones. He also gives us a reading from the book. 

13-year-old Juno gives a review of Two Degrees. 

Resilience Corner

Tamara Staton is the Education and Resilience Coordinator for Citizens Climate Education, and in this installment of the Resilience Corner she helps us to ask for the help we need.  

Get more tips and resources by visiting The Resiliency Hub. 

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CCL Training: An Introduction to Building Electrification and Efficiency

Join CCL's Vice President for Organizational Strategy Tony Sirna for a training  that provides an overview of Building Electrification and Efficiency, one part of CCL's policy agenda, why this is an important policy area for addressing climate change and what types of policies CCL supports.

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/building-electrification-slides  
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/building-electrification 

CCL Training: An Introduction To Carbon Pricing

Join CCL Research Coordinator Jonathan Marshall for a training that explores what carbon pricing - the flagship element of CCL’s policy agenda - is, why it's an important policy area for addressing climate change and what types of policies CCL supports.

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/intro-carbon-pricing  
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/carbon-pricing