Citizens' Climate Lobby

December 2022 Lobby Training #1: Legislative Plan (By Member of Congress Segments)

Join CCL's Government Affairs team to participate in strategizing for the upcoming December lobby meetings and  get more information on the meeting asks. Today's training will segment strategy breakouts by (1) House Democrats, (2) House Republicans, (3) Senate Democrats, and (4) Senate Republicans. 

This is the first of two recommended trainings for any CCL volunteer planning on being a part of their group's December 2022 Lobby Meeting (as well as the next month's - Lobby Training #2 - CCL's 2022 Primary & Supporting Asks).

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:43) Legislative Update
(8:38) Senate Democrats
(16:27) Senate Republicans
(27:48) House Democrats
(37:27) House Republicans

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/dec-22-lobby-training 

Stephen Perkins & Quill Robinson | Citizens’ Climate Lobby | October 2022 Monthly Meeting

As we work to bring more Republican members of Congress to the table on climate solutions, enrolling more conservative constituents will be key in our advocacy efforts. For guidance on outreach to conservatives on the climate issue, we turn this month to Stephen Perkins and Quill Robinson from the American Conservation Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing young people around environmental action through common-sense, market-based, and limited-government ideals. Stephen is ACC's Vice President of Grassroots Strategy. Before joining ACC, he was a partner in a conservative digital marketing agency. Quill is Vice President of Government Affairs, developing ACC's policy priorities and leading advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill. He has been published in The Hill and The Washington Examiner.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

(0:00) Intro & Agenda

(1:31) Quill & Stephen's Presentation

(15:48) Q&A Discussion

(27:59) October Actions & Updates

October's Pre-Call video: https://vimeo.com/758113393

The Climate Commitment: https://www.theclimatecommitment.com/

American Conservation Coalition: https://www.acc.eco/

Quill & Stephen's Presentation Slides: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFG-vj88AI/T5uEJemxS9_80Tki06wbRw/view?utm_content=DAFG-vj88AI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

CCL Hosts Bipartisan Debate in Utah: https://vimeo.com/758090509

October Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet

CCL Training: Understanding the IRA’s Methane Charge (Fee)

Join CCL Research Coordinator Rick Knight, for an updated training that explores the various ways that a methane charge (fee) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act will be designed and implemented as well as the predicted impact it will have on emission reductions and future carbon pricing policy.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:56) Methane’s role in climate change
(6:51) Where it comes from 
(10:35) U.S. methane regulations
(23:24) The IRA methane fee
(32:11) How it fits in our advocacy

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/methane-fee-slides  

CCL Community training page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/530 

CCL’s Big Tent Climate Talk Episode w/ Bill McKibben (Sept. 2022)

Our September event features a conversation with Bill McKibben, Founder Th!rd Act, well-known author, educator, and environmental leader and CCL's Kyle Kammien,  Senior Business Relations Representative.

Join us for 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. 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.

Join CCL: https://citizensclimatelobby.org  
Join Th!rd Act: https://thirdact.org  
Bill’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/billmckibben 
Bill's Substack - The Crucial Years: https://billmckibben.substack.com
Register For Next Quarter’s Episode: https://cclusa.org/bigtent 

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Inro & Agenda
(2:40) Bill's Backstory
(9:20) How Did Th!rd Act Start?
(20:12) How CCL and Th!rd Act can be in movement together?
(24:57) What are Some of the Next Climate Priorities
(34:07) Audience Questions

CCL’s Climate Science Ask Me Anything (AMA) w/ Dr. Deepti Singh

Have a question about climate science in general? Join Dr. Deepti Singh, Assistant Professor, School of the Environment, Washington State University Vancouver, and Dana Nuccitelli, CCL Research Coordinator and leader of Science Policy Network for CCL's quarterly Ask Me Anything with some of the most well-respected climate scientists in the country!

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(1:33) Dr. Singh's Presentation
(32:54) AMA Questions

Dr. Singh's Website: https://deeptis47.github.io/ 
CCL's Nerd Corner: https://cclusa.org/nerd-corner 
CCL Community Climate Science Basics Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/climate-change-science/basics 

CCL Training: Creative & Engaging Tabling Ideas

Join CCL Education & Resilience Coordinator and Greater Pacific Northwest Regional Co-Coordinator Tamara Staton for a training designed to help you engage people at the events you attend - to attract them to your table and heighten their interest, attention and ability to focus on what you have to share.

CCR 76 Building Personal Resilience in Your Climate Work

In today’s show we will talk about resiliency for you and me as individuals doing climate work. You will learn about ways you can prepare yourself for a variety of emotional, psychological, interpersonal, and even physical impacts you may experience as a climate worker. 

Laureline Simon is the founder and executive director of One Resilient Earth, an international non-profit organization that designs transdisciplinary educational projects for communities impacted by climate change, youth and sustainability professionals, to respond to the climate and biodiversity crises through resilience, regeneration and transformation.To help meet the emotional needs of fellow climate workers, Laureline now hosts a weekly on-line gathering. The hour-long Climate Workers Circle takes place every Tuesday at 2:00 pm Eastern Time. 

Laureline has worked on climate change mitigation and adaptation at the international level since 2006. She first supported women-led post-disaster reconstruction projects in rural India with the Indian NGO SEWA. She then worked on the identification and financing of large-scale climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation projects in South Asia with the French Development Agency, before leading a multi-year research program on adaptation to climate change in cities of sub-Saharan Africa. 

At the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, she coordinated activities related to knowledge management and stakeholder engagement on adaptation to climate change, helped set up the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ platform, supported a task force on population displacements related to climate change, and coordinated Resilience Frontiers, a pioneering collective intelligence process on long-term resilience. Laureline studied international relations and development at Sciences Po, as well as Indian languages at INALCO in Paris. 

The Art House

In the Art House American photographer and poet, Susan Currie tells us about a new book she wrote for fellow artists, especially when we feel stuck. In Super Flow she provides insights, practices, and practical advice on how to maintain a fresh, creative, sustainable artistic flow. 

Susan Currie is a West Palm Beach-based poet with a camera. Her words and images have been widely exhibited and published. She met her muse some time ago when she discovered the ancient eight-limbed practice of yoga. Its way of life continues to inform and imprint the art she makes.Her new works of visual art are on exhibit in a number of private collections, and at Chase Edwards Contemporary in Bridgehampton, NY.

NEW Resilience Corner

Tamara Staton premieres the first in series designed to help us stay strong and focused in our climate work. Tamara is the Education and Resilience Coordinator for Citizens Climate Education, and in this first installment of the Resilience Corner, she outlines for us the Five Steps to Resilience Building. 

1. Notice what you're needing, feeling or experiencing right now. 
2. Accept that what you need is what you need.  Allow yourself to be free from judgment about what that means about you or your upbringing or your surroundings.
3. Seek Help with those needs that you struggle to meet yourself. 
4. Practice meeting your needs. It will naturally look different for everyone. And, It may take some trial and error to see what will meet your needs and how. 
5. Repeat these five steps regularly.  

Next month we’ll take a closer look at Noticing and Accepting what we're needing, feeling, and experiencing in any particular moment. Get more tips and resources by visiting The Resiliency Hub. 

If you are interested in a regular on-going discussion about local, regional, and national adaptations, and the ways we use infrastructure, policy, and government to prepare for the impacts of climate change, listen to Doug Parson’s America Adapts.

Good News Report

Flannery Winchester, communications director at Climates Climate explains that while the Inflation Reduction Act will not solve all of our climate change problems, it is a significant step with benefits for all American citizens on the Right, Left, and Center.  

If you have Good News to share, email radio @ citizensclimate.org 

We always welcome your thoughts, questions, suggestions, and recommendations for the show. Leave a message on our listener voicemail line: (619) 512-9646. +1 if calling from outside the USA that number again. (619) 512-9646.

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CCL Training: Giving Inflation Reduction Act Presentations In Your Community

Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will feature a presentation slideshow deck that you can customize and use for your local community to make presentations about the climate benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Presentation Slides: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/508

Zahra Biabani | The Root of Climate Nihilism and Steps to Overcome It | 2022 Inclusion Conference

Zahra Biabani is a climate activist, influencer, CEO, and writer. Her content focuses on climate hope, optimism, humor, and action items. After unexpectedly establishing a career as an online sustainability educator and influencer in her junior year at Vanderbilt University, Zahra decided to jump head first into the waters of entrepreneurship and authorship.

Her startup, In the Loop, is the first rental clothing company for vetted sustainable and ethical fashion brands. 

 

Her upcoming book, signed by Mango Publishing, Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World, unpacks the cognitive biases that make optimism difficult to cultivate, along with the encouraging environmental trends of the last decade and examples of communities in the Global South pioneering unique solutions to the climate crisis.

 

https://zahrabiabani.com/

Twitter: @zahranurbiabani

 

Zahra’s Upcoming Book: Climate Optimism: Climate Wins and Creating Systemic Change Around the World https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Optimism-Creating-Systemic-Change/dp/1684811589/

 

Ecocide Law. “Existing Ecocide Laws.” Ecocide Law. Accessed June 30, 2022. https://ecocidelaw.com/existing-ecocide-laws/

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122021/ecuador-rights-of-nature/

https://www.wired.com/story/climate-anxiety-whiteness-problem/

Arlene JM Grant, Esq | In Stillness, Rise Together | 2022 Inclusion Conference

Arlene, a CCL member, serves to engage the wellbeing of others through multisensory techniques as a certified nutritionist and relaxation coach.  Arlene helps activists to recover from chronic conditions related to anxiety, stress, and trauma.  Her mission, which has touched every continent, is to encourage climate advocates to remember they are part of the environment deserving of care and regeneration.

 

Twitter: @iamarliespeaks

 

Arlene’s slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pweFYGuwXM3OBBEwmH49lB-RLuVoKhyZqJF4JsnqWTA/edit?usp=sharing

 

28 Day Weekly Self Care Planner: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OuoKzVT3Kjha963arsWlNKmExlnGdzQ-/view?usp=sharing

ONGO Series: https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/972