Citizens' Climate Lobby

Whether lobbying a member of Congress or doing grassroots outreach to enroll volunteers, the ability to really listen is a valuable asset. Our guest this month, Pamela Benson Owens, will coach us on constructive listening. Pam is the President and CEO of Edge of Your Seat Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm that is dedicated to helping for-profit, non-profit and faith-based organizations. Pam leverages humor and honest storytelling to create memorable and applicable strategies that organizations can employ to achieve their goals.

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(0:00) Welcome
(2:58) Pamela Benson Owens
(13:36) Q&A Discussion
(30:24) August Updates & Actions

CCL's August Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet 
August Pre-Call Video: https://vimeo.com/602731724 
More about Pam: https://www.pamelabensonowens.com/ 

Join CCL's Media Manager Ashley Hunt-Martorano for a training that will introduce you to TikTok and CCL's active channel on it (https://www.tiktok.com/@citizensclimate) as well as enhancing you and your group’s use of the newer social media platform to support your social media goals and interact with the millions of users online.

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• (0:00) Intro & Agenda
• (2:57) Why TikTok?
• (6:05) What is TikTok?
• (12:00) Getting Started!
• (26:03) CCL's TikTok Strategy
• (32:30) CCL Tiktok Video Examples
• (44:40) How You Can Help!

Follow Us: https://www.tiktok.com/@citizensclimate 
Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/tiktok-slides 
TikTok Forum in the Social Media Action Team on CCL Community:
https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/discuss/975/3102 

Join CCL Executive Director Mark Reynolds, President Madeleine Para and Vice President of Government Affairs Danny Richter for a special CCL webinar for all-leaders because now is the time for a big push in the U.S. House of Representatives.  

Review the legislative landscape as context for this campaign, understand how CCL will amplify our asks to both Democrat and Republican House offices, and take action to help ensure a price on carbon is included in the reconciliation package.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(1:11) Opening Remarks
(3:11) Legislative Landscape
(12:26) Campaign Actions To Take
(16:15) Conversation Practice Activity
(21:37) Q&A Discussion
(35:30) August Monthly Actions & Speaker
(36:38) Sen. Whitehouse's Video

Take Action on A Price on Carbon in the House: https://cclusa.org/house
Budge Reconciliation CCL Community Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/reconciliation-actions
Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/price-carbon-house-slides
Questions? Ask on CCL Community’s Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/forums

#climatechange #climate #reconciliation #priceoncarbon #carbontax

Geraldo Cadava is the author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of An American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump published by Ecco. He chatted with Citizens Climate Radio about the long history of Hispanics and the Republican party. He reveals what is often misunderstood about the political diversity of Latinos in America. The most asked question he gets is why any Latino voted for Donald Trump. He talks about this and a lot more. He also considers the question about Hispanic Republicans and climate change.

Geraldo Cadava is a professor of History and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2008, and he received a B.A., also in History, from Dartmouth College in 2000. His areas of expertise are Latino History, the United States-Mexico Borderlands, Latin American immigration to the United States, and American politics. 

The Art House

Over 10 years ago Elli Sparks was struggling to make sense of climate change. She said “…that summer in Virginia  was insanely hot. I remember being in the community pool and when I popped my head out of the water, the water evaporated so quickly I felt downright cold!  I also remember walking with coworkers to the cafeteria and thinking, ‘Why in the world are none of these people alarmed about climate change??!!’”

She was really struggling, so she wrote a story for herself. Tell Me A Story is a conversation between a parent and a child, a story within a story. Elli, who is now Citizens Climate Lobby’s Director of Field Development, has shared the story with friends, fellow climate advocates, and at public gatherings. She gave Citizens Climate Radio permission to turn the story into a short radio play. Tell Me a Story is performed by Zeke and Anna Loomis-Weber. 

Anna Weber-Loomis (she/her) just finished her first year at Sterling College in Vermont. She is studying outdoor education and sustainable agriculture. Zeke Weber-Loomis (she/her) just finished her first year of high school. She spends her free time drawing, playing ukulele, and running cross-country and track.

You can hear standalone versions of The Art House at Artists and Climate Change

Good News Report

Hunter Thomas, a Latino and a Conservative Outreach Fellow for Citizens Climate Radio shares good news about productive meetings he is having with CCL’s Latino Action Team. He is excited about reaching out to Latino Conservatives, especially in promoting carbon fee and divided as a bold and effective solution that appeals to the Right and Left.

If you have good news to share, email us radio @ citizensclimate.org

Dig Deeper     

• Politico: Trump Didn’t Win the Latino Vote in Texas. He Won the Tejano Vote.
• Environmental Defense Fund Fact Sheet (pdf): Latinos and Climate Change 
• Psychiatric Times: The Effects of Climate Change on Hispanic and Latinx Communities

We always welcome your thoughts, questions, suggestions, and recommendations for the show. Leave a voice mail at 518.595.9414. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.) You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org  

You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, Podbean, Northern Spirit Radio, Google Play, PlayerFM, and TuneIn Radio. Also, feel free to connect with other listeners, suggest program ideas, and respond to programs in the Citizens’ Climate Radio Facebook group or on Twitter at @CitizensCRadio.

 

Join CCL Education & Engagement Director Brett Cease and CCL Michigan Liaisons Coordinator Lisa DelBuono, MD, for a training that will review the background, details, and how to host a simulation event with Climate Interactive's climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, built with MIT Sloan. Lisa demonstrates two sample presentations using the tool to help groups explore the power of a steadily rising price on carbon through policies like the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act as well as other strategies to address climate change to highlight complementary climate goals including the impact of changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(2:25) En-ROADS Background
(8:01) How To Use The Simulator
(12:24) Example Carbon Pricing En-Roads Simulation For Progressive-Leaning Audiences (stand alone version: https://youtu.be/awyp495Ran4)
(27:23) Example Carbon Pricing En-Roads Simulation For Conservative-Leaning Audiences (stand alone version: https://youtu.be/162gInMuJws)
(39:04) Next Steps In Your Outreach
(43:20) En-ROADS Training Updates!

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/enroads-update
En-ROADS Simulator: http://en-roads.org
En-ROADS Training: https://learn.climateinteractive.org/
What's working for you? Share on CCL Community’s Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/forums

Join CCL Executive Director Mark Reynolds, President Madeleine Para and Vice President of Government Affairs Danny Richter for a special CCL webinar for all-leaders because now is the time for a big push on the Senate.

Review the Senate legislative landscape as context for this campaign, understand how CCL will amplify our asks to both Democrat and Republican Senate office, and take action to help ensure a price on carbon is included in the reconciliation package.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(1:28) Opening Remarks
(2:27) Legislative Landscape
(9:29) Campaign Actions To Take
(14:26) Role Play Example
(19:19) Q&A Discussion

Take Action on A Price on Carbon in the Senate: https://cclusa.org/senate
CCL Crunch Time For Climate Policy: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-policy-in-budget-reconciliation/
Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/price-carbon-senate-slides 
Questions? Ask on CCL Community’s Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/forums 

#climatechange #climate #reconciliation #priceoncarbon #carbontax

Newer to CCL and excited to make a difference? Be sure to join us for the beginning of our next cycle of Core Volunteer Training, a series specifically created to support you in becoming more active with CCL and answering any questions you might have across a wide range of topics. This initial training focuses on helping participants navigate our websites and opportunities for harnessing the talents, experience and interests you bring to CCL with Tamara Staton, CCL's Education & Resilience Coordinator.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda 
(2:53) What Is Core Volunteer Training?
(6:22) Reviewing Our Public Facing Website
(13:16) Logging In
(14:40) Your Dashboard & Homepage
(16:28) How to Get Help 
(20:22) Glossary & Terms
(23:11) New Volunteer Page
(24:03) Setting Up Your Profile 
(27:38) Connecting with your Local CCL Chapter
(30:27) Action Teams
(33:35) CCL Community Forums
(35:51) Exploring Resources and Training
 
Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/engaging-with-ccl-community  
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/core-volunteer-training/engaging-with-ccl-community  

Join CCL Program Director Don Addu for a training that will provide volunteers with important updates to how CCL is supporting chapters transitioning back to in-person outreach with the best available recommendations regarding COVID-19 as well as covering an update to how CCL is incorporating the important element of service within its third lever of political will.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(1:42) COVID-19 Update
(5:37) The Importance of Service
(9:45) Service To Rotary Groups (Alan Anderson's Story)
(14:48) Service To Community Groups (Princella Talley's Story)
(20:37) Service To Coal Country (Jim Probst's Story)
(28:08) Final Steps

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/grassroots-service

CCL Community Event Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/7349

One of the virtues of carbon pricing is that it will spur technological innovation. What kind of innovation? For a glimpse of that potential, we turn this month to Allie Kelly, Executive Director of The Ray, a nonprofit that is reimagining our roadways to be greener and safer. The Ray is working on a living highway test bed to develop ways to capture solar energy, charge electric vehicles and provide a drive-through tire safety station. Allie has over 15 years of experience working in public policy, including founding Georgia Watch in Atlanta, Georgia’s only consumer watchdog organization.

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(0:00) Welcome
(2:27) Allie's Presentation
(21:45) Q&A Discussion
(30:59) July Updates & Actions

The Ray: https://www.TheRay.org

Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/LinkedIn: @TheRayHighway

Email: contactus@theray.org

CCL's July Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheet

July Pre Call Video: https://vimeo.com/573156478

Conservative Climate Caucus https://curtis.house.gov/conservative-climate-caucus/

Americans for Action on Climate Fund website at https://afaocf.org 

Carbon Pricing Ad: Let's Get Back to Work America: https://youtu.be/STSb8eo7lHA 

Fareed Zakaria's GPS Segment: https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1406686510259314690 

Join CCL's Marketing Manager Ashley Hunt-Martorano and Designer Breanna Cooke for a training that will walk you through and explore the many branded resources that CCL provides our volunteers to help you with your own local outreach, including Graphic Design Templates in Canva and CCL Brand Guidelines.

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(0:00) Intro & Agenda
(3:03) Why Is This Important?
(7:52) Finding Resources
(17:25) Branding Guidelines
(20:19) Canva Templates
(32:38) CCL Logos
(45:52) CCL Photos
(50:55) Messaging, Values, & Tone
(53:01) In Review

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/using-branded-resources 
CCL Community Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/7348