Citizens' Climate Lobby

Core Volunteer Training: Community Influencers & Our Action Teams

Join Todd Elvins with CCL's Endorsers Program Lead in highlighting successful examples of building support from local faith, business, and community leaders and elected officials in the support of leader's letters as well as how to navigate our Grasstops Engagement Tracker and Action Teams network.

Demonstrating to Congress that business and community leaders support our policy is critical. In the words of CCL's Senior Liaison Jay Butera, "Bringing in endorsers with me was a game changer in our relationship with Congressman Curbelo’s office, and played a big role in gaining his signature on the Republican Climate Resolution.”

Core Volunteer Training is created to help connect new volunteers with each other from across the world and empower them to achieve their larger goals for climate advocacy.

Core Volunteer Training: Improving Our Communications

Led by​ CCL Effective Communication Action Lead Dave Folland, this webinar draws upon the tools and techniques of motivational interviewing and walks through best practices in how to engage in reflective listening, open-ended questions, and the art of engaging in discussions that are effective collaborations. CCL's Volunteer Education Coordinator Brett Cease also highlights key takeaways from climate communications research groups like ecoAmerica, the IPCC, and Yale Project on Climate Communications in finding common ground along with helping walk through some communications exercises for small groups.

Core Volunteer Training is created to help connect new volunteers with each other from across the world and empower them to achieve their larger goals for climate advocacy.
 

Core Volunteer Training: Explaining the Science of Climate Change

Explaining the Science of Climate Change features Citizens' Climate Education board member and climate scientist Dr. Sandra Kirtland Turner.

The training features explanations by Dr. Kirtland Turner on the concepts behind climate change: CO2 traps heat, the concentration of CO2 is rising, and human contributions are driving this rise as well as discussing how to communicate the science behind climate change and where to find additional resources.

Aimee Sison | Citizens' Climate Lobby | August 2018 Monthly Speaker

How do we leverage our messaging on social media? Aimee Sison, Digital Director with Climate Nexus, works to further the climate change and clean energy narrative across digital and social media platforms. She also works with partners to amplify messages in new, creative ways to online audiences.

Originally from the Philippines, Aimee’s passion for climate change is fueled by seeing her homeland suffer the negative impacts of global warming.

La sesión informativa de CCL

Esta sesión le enseñará la información básica sobre Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible. Aprenderá cómo puede marcar la diferencia creando la voluntad política para legislación elegante, eficaz, y justa que nos ayudará a desengancharnos de las fuentes de energía que están afectando a nuestra salud y calentando nuestro planeta.

CCL Training: Working With Other Organizations & Allies Training

Join Taylor Krause, National Outreach & Partnership Coordinator, for a training that explores how to engage and partner with other organizations in a respectful, understanding and productive way. This training also features examples of what CCL leaders throughout the country are doing to build these essential connections as well as understanding how to best interface with local groups of national organizations.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
What Steps Should We Take? (2:36)
How Should We Reach Out To? (4:49)
What Should We Talk About? (9:11)
Why Does Working Together Matter? (15:00)
How To Work With Other Groups (22:08)
Local Stories & Examples (27:50)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/working-with-orgs
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/168

CCL Training: Celebrating Storytelling

Join Peterson Toscano, Citzens' Climate Radio Host, for a training that focuses on the value of storytelling and how to harness and tell our own compelling climate story.

For this workshop, it will be helpful to have a notebook handy in order to capture details of what you might include in your personal story and come prepared to dive into working on your own story in small groups.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):

(0:00) Intro & Agenda

(3:23) Initial Tips for Creating Climate Stories

(11:44) Peterson's Example Story

(16:57) Additional Thoughts on What Makes A Good Climate Story

More about Peterson: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/?team=peterson-toscano 

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/ccl-storytelling 

CCL Community Training: https://community.citizensclimate.org/topics/climate-communications/telling-compelling-stories 

Citizens' Climate University: The Power of Storytelling (Audio)

Audio Only: Want to be more impactful as an advocate with how you share your own stories?

Join Climate Journalist Sara Peach and CCL's Marketing Director Lesley Beatty for a webinar that highlights compelling examples of personal climate advocacy stories and provides tools and recommendations for CCL supporters to improve their own storytelling, including the Yale Climate Communications Formula:

1. Something in my life or our community is changing.

2. It’s related to climate change.  

3. It matters. (Hint: people are affected.)

4. What solutions/personal actions I'm taking.

After tuning in, begin framing your own climate stories based on this sequence connecting with your audience.  What everyone brings to their own story of climate advocacy are the things that make them unique and give them power.

Citizens' Climate University: Dividend Delivery Study (Audio)

 

Audio Only: The following webinar represents the key findings of a study commissioned by CCL and written by Allen H. Lerman. Lerman served for 42 years as an economist with the United States Treasury Department and conducted this research to determine how a dividend return to American households could work.

Join Dr. Danny Richter, CCL's Vice President of Government Affairs in exploring the detailed how's and why's of CCL's dividend return. The webinar addresses questions about the carbon fund, distribution framework, and the dividend's taxability. It also tackles distribution challenges like handling changing eligibility and getting dividends to as many American residents as possible with maximum transparency and minimum cost.

Looking for the study? Visit CCL's main page for the full report here.

Citizens' Climate University: Dividend Delivery Study

 

The following webinar represents the key findings of a study commissioned by CCL and written by Allen H. Lerman. Lerman served for 42 years as an economist with the United States Treasury Department and conducted this research to determine how a dividend return to American households could work.

Join Dr. Danny Richter, CCL's Vice President of Government Affairs in exploring the detailed how's and why's of CCL's dividend return. The webinar addresses questions about the carbon fund, distribution framework, and the dividend's taxability. It also tackles distribution challenges like handling changing eligibility and getting dividends to as many American residents as possible with maximum transparency and minimum cost.

Looking for the study? Visit CCL's main page for the full report here.