Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL Training: Getting Started With Local Partnership Ideas

As CCL expands our policy agenda, it opens up the possibilities for our chapters to do more work with local and state-level climate groups and policymakers. For instance chapters might work to promote urban forests by planting trees with a local community organization or might support building electrification and efficiency by lobbying the city council to electrify municipal buildings.  Join CCL's Solemi Hernandez (Southeast Regional Coordinator) and Steffanie Munguía (Student Engagement Manager) for a discussion around how you can jump into getting started with local partnership ideas.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:26) The Importance of Service
(5:54) Doing Your Research
(12:54) Local Examples & Ideas
(23:35) Five Phases For Tree Planting Planning
(30:22) Next Step Ideas

Presentation Slides:
https://cclusa.org/local-partnership-slides 
CCL's Policy Agenda Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/discuss/viewcategory/1952 
CCL Training Event page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/11412 

Marcelo Mena | Citizens’ Climate Lobby | December 2022 Monthly Meeting

Reducing methane emissions will be one of the keys to staying within the 1.5 C warming threshold. To learn what steps are being taken to lower those emissions, this month's speaker is Marcelo Mena, CEO of Global Methane Hub, a philanthropic alliance to support methane emissions reduction efforts around the world. Mena previously served as Minister of the Environment of Chile and has extensive experience as a scientist, activist, former professor and policymaker. In his role as Minister of Environment, he spearheaded multiple international environmental initiatives including helping craft a landmark agreement to phase out coal power generation. On this month's call, he will offer his perspective on the recently convened COP27 climate conference.

 

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(0:00) Celebrations & Opening

(6:42) Marcelo Mena with Q&A

(23:20) Legislative Update 

(32:24) December Updates & Actions

(46:29) Highlight from December Conference

 

December’s Pre-Call video: https://vimeo.com/779751639 

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

December’s Monthly Meeting Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dWZEfqQoGQv741hxmjTCga-FHGCGMNRs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107460872575332149550&rtpof=true&sd=true 

Global Methane Hub: https://globalmethanehub.org/ 

Ask your House Rep to co-sponsor the RISEE ACT: https://cclusa.org/write-risee

Make a charitable donation to our work: https://cclusa.org/donate

CCL Training: Help Your Chapter Take Action With CCL’s Policy Agenda

At CCL's December Conference, we unveiled CCL's Policy Agenda and now it’s time to select the policies that your chapter will focus on (we don’t expect you to work on all of the policies) and decide how you will take action. Join CCL's National Action Director Todd Elvins for a training on how to take action with your chapter using CCL's Take Action worksheet to guide a chapter discussion to determine which policies are most relevant to your team and then use the ”Take Action Worksheet” to plan your next steps. Then, CCL Director of Membership Field Development Elli Sparks will help you find roles for new leadership in your chapter by reviewing the new Volunteer Opportunities Role Descriptions resource as well as the Volunteer Opportunities Email Templates 

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:23) CCL's Policy Agenda
(3:50)Using CCL's Take Action Worksheet
(11:24) Using Volunteer Opportunities Role Descriptions & Email Templates

Presentation Slides: Presentation Slides:
http://cclusa.org/chapter-action-slides 

Training Page: 
https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/384 

Resource Pages: 
https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/387 
https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/524 

CCL Training: Leading Your Lobby Team (Lobbying 401)

Join Susan Adams, CCL Regional Coordinator for a training designed for those who wish to learn more about leading a lobby meeting with a member of Congress or staff. In this training, we'll review the role of a lobby team leader, how they assign team roles, coordinate practice times and how to handle other special situations. This training is Part IV in the “Working With Congress” training series, designed to help our more experienced volunteers and citizen lobbyists get ready for our December lobbying meetings.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:30) The Importance of Leads
(11:25) Advance Planning
(22:21) Meeting Planning Suggestions
(29:41) Additional Leadership Considerations
(39:45) Final Considerations

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/lobbylead 
CCL Training Page:
https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/working-with-congress/lobbying-401 

CCR 78 What is an Effective Climate Change Story?

In this episode of Citizens Climate Radio we will consider stories that focus on the impacts of climate change. These include incidents of extreme weather, and stories of changes you have witnessed over time and the ways these changes affect you and everything and everyone you love. Plus you will hear one climate solution story from the future. 

Most importantly, you will hear an example of “the climate story pivot.” The pivot happens when you jump off of your story into the climate solution you are proposing.

An extreme weather story by Dr. Natasha DeJarnett

Dr. DeJarnett is an assistant professor in the Christina Lee Brown Environment Institute at the University of Louisville Division of Environmental Medicine. She researches the health impacts of extreme heat exposure and environmental health disparities. If you ever heard one of Dr. DeJarnett’s presentations, you know she is excellent at sharing data and highlighting the many ways we can protect our loved ones and communities. She is also a powerful storyteller. For this episode she tells us a dramatic story from when she was 12 years old.  

Poems about parenting and climate change by Lilace Mellin Guinard. 

As a parent, Lilace Mellin Guinard weaves in emotions that may be familiar to some listeners.  For The BTS Center in Portland, Maine, Lilace led a poetry workshop for climate change leaders. She recorded readings of her poetry, and Citizens Climate Radio host Peterson Toscano  added music and sound effects. You will hear Lilace read two poems, “After the Magi Depart'' and “Evergreen.” For people in North America who enjoy winter weather and feel a pang about the warming of warming winters, Lilace expresses both grief and determination. Each poem is a mini story of moments in the life of a parent and children. More importantly Lilace tells the deeper emotional stories many of us quietly experience.  

A story from the future by Allison Whitaker

Peterson collaborated with Allison Whitaker, one of the facilitators of the Intro to Climate Fiction Workshop offered by With Many Roots. She wrote a story immersed in a solution. Together they created a radio drama version of her story Forest at the End of the Lane. This story was inspired by a climate solution known as tree intercropping. According to Project Drawdown, tree intercropping is “a suite of agroforestry systems that deliberately grow trees together with annual crops in a given area at the same time. This solution replaces conventional annual crop production on degraded cropland.” Special Thanks to The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit for the awesome badger sounds. You can read more future solution stories like Allisons’ over at the Cli-Fi Imaginarium.

What you will learn in this episode: We can tell effective climate stories. 

1. The most common story is  the climate change impact story--A story that reveals the dangers of climate change induced extreme weather and other impacts on our lives and the world. Make your story compelling with specific details and emotions.
2. Once you tell your story, switch to the climate change pivot. This is when you connect your story to the climate work you are doing or a particular solution you are pursuing.
3. Finally, give them something to do. Suggest a meaningful and achievable next step. 

Next month we will do a deep dive into another type of climate change story--a story that reveals the impacts of climate change solutions. 

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.

Resilience Corner

Tamara Staton is the Education and Resilience Coordinator for Citizens Climate Education, and in this installment of the Resilience Corner she has us accepting what we need. 

There are two aspects of acceptance that can help us deepen our resilience. 

• The first one involves making space and allowing for our thoughts, feelings and needs. Because, when it comes right down to it, what you need is what you need. 
• The second part of acceptance involves a willingness to see our surroundings and circumstances exactly as they are in the moment. Acceptance in this way, free from judgment, allows us to focus our energy and attention on what matters most

Next month Tamara will take a closer look at asking for help.  Get more tips and resources by visiting The Resiliency Hub. 

Good News Report

Our good news story comes from Brad Johnson and John Price Kepner from Hill Heat. In addition to voting candidates in and out of office, during the US midterm elections, voters weighed in on climate change related ballot measures. While not all of these ballot measures passed, there were many successes. Learn more at Hill Heat. 

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. 

If you are a woman who has spent time alone camping, hiking, or in nature, I’d 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? Leave a message on the voicemail line or email Peterson. 

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CCL Training: Why Clean Energy Permitting Reform Is An Important Climate Priority

This advanced training reviews the need to ease bureaucratic barriers that slow down new clean energy infrastructure such as electric transmission lines, wind and solar farms, energy storage and other renewables.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:18) Why is this important and what is permitting?
(6:01) What’s the challenge?
(9:31) Potential environmental benefits from fixing it
(20:05) What solutions does CCL support?
Q&A Discussion (https://vimeo.com/772672127)

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/permitting-reform-slides   
CCL Community Training Page:  https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/512 

CCL Training: An Introduction To Clean Energy Permitting Reform

This training covers one part of CCL’s policy agenda, Clean Energy Permitting Reform. It provides an overview why this is an important policy area for addressing climate change, and what types of policies CCL supports.

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(0:00) Intro & agenda
(1:42) Why is this important?
(2:58) Addressing concerns
(4:44) How CCL will engage

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/permitting-reform-intro 
CCL Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/513 

Sam Daley-Harris | Citizens’ Climate Lobby | November 2022 Monthly Meeting

How do you empower citizens to effectively engage with their government to solve big problems? We talk this month to the person who literally wrote the book on this topic, Sam Daley-Harris. He's the founder and CEO of Civic Courage, and he'll share some of the successes he's seen with the organizations he's coached. One of those is Citizens' Climate Lobby. In 1980, Sam founded RESULTS, a grassroots advocacy organization working to end hunger and poverty. He is the author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, which tells the stories of life-changing moments people had in discovering their power to make a difference. In the aftermath of the midterm elections, Sam will also explore the lessons we can apply to our climate advocacy.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:33) Sam's Presentation
(15:42) Q&A Discussion
(27:12) Government Affairs Update w/ Jenn Tyler
(20:44) November Actions & Updates

November Pre-Call video: https://vimeo.com/770063939 
Civic Courage: https://civiccourage.org/ 
Register for December Conference: https://cclusa.org/fallconference 
Sam's Slides: http://cclusa.org/sam-daley-harris-slides 
November Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet 

CCL’s Fall 2022 Lobby Training #2: Primary & Supporting Asks

Join CCL's Vice President for Government Affairs Ben Pendergrass and Senior Director of Government Affairs Jennifer Tyler for a training that will review the updates and context for CCL's Fall 2022 Primary and Supporting Asks, as well as guidance for lobby teams as they plan their online meetings. This is a recommended training for any CCL volunteer planning on being a part of their group's December 2022 Lobby Meeting (as well as the previous month's- Lobby Training #1 - CCL's Legislative Plan: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/459 )

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:05) Where We’ve Been (Since June)
(5:17) The Election
(10:44) What About A Carbon Price?
(12:55) Opportunity for the Lame Duck
(18:35) Recommended Primary Asks
(26:08) More Information On Supporting Asks
(39:15) Communications Practice Video & Wrap-up
Additional Q&A Video: https://vimeo.com/769949731/83c2915702 

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/fall-ask-slides 
Primary Ask Resource: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/237 
Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/185 

CCL Training: Diverse and Equitable Outreach In Your Chapter

Join Danielle Whyte, CCL National Chapter Development Intern, for a training that reviews the foundations and building blocks for a CCL chapter culture that is healthy and inclusive. Danielle will review how to foster healthy and inclusive chapter environments, cultivate chapter cultures that keep volunteers of all backgrounds engaged, as well as how to conduct equitable outreach during your chapter's events.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:51) What is Outreach, Onboarding, Engagement and DEI?
(10:13) The "You" in Outreach
(16:34) Nurturing Relationships
(25:18) Onboarding & Engagement
(32:20) Chapter Development Resources

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/diverse-equitable-outreach 
Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/458