Citizens' Climate Lobby

CCL 2018: Saturday Seminar on Communication Skills for Advocates

Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers a set of communication tools anyone can use in their advocacy work. These tools sidestep resistance, promote collaboration and lead others to make the case for change. MI has 30 years of research and over 1200 published studies supporting its effectiveness across a wide variety of situations.

This 3-hour workshop provides participants with an introduction and hands-on experience with MI’s unique approach to collaboration for change. During the last hour we will demonstrate how to use MI in lobby meetings, coaching conversations with volunteers, new member interviews, handling conflicts in a group, climate change conversations in social situations and related topics suggested by the audience.

Speaker: David Christian, PhD, Psychologist

CCL 2018: Saturday Seminar Working Together: Building Relationships Across Race and Culture

CCL seeks to create the conditions for climate legislation by building relationships with people from all backgrounds and beliefs. In this session we will consider some essential questions to expand our outreach and alliances: Who aren't we talking to? What gets in the way of talking to them? What gets in the way of listening?

How do we deepen our connections with people and organizations that come from different traditions, cultures or ethnic heritages than our own? Our participants will have the opportunity to explore their experiences building relationships with people from different traditions, cultures or ethnic heritages and to increase their capacity to develop those relationships through practice in small groups.

Speaker:
Barbara Love, EdD
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Professor Emeritus

CCL 2018: Saturday Seminar - Everything You Wanted To Know About Carbon Fee & Dividend

CCL is built around advocacy for a carbon pricing plan we call the Carbon Fee & Dividend. We all know that, and we all know that the relative simplicity of the proposal is one of its greatest attractions.

However, the word relative is important because nothing in the world of Federal policy is truly as simple as we would like to believe. This is often revealed when volunteers ask questions about the CFD that are not so easy to answer.

In this three-hour session, we will take the time to examine your questions about the CFD and may be raised by other stakeholders such as members of Congress, their aides, affected business entities, state and local governments, community organizations, and American families.

The session will begin with a one-hour review of the CFD policy framework as it has also been informed by the REMI, Dividend Delivery, and Household Impact studies. In the second hour, we'll form breakout teams to develop key questions on specific topic areas. The third hour will consist of an open forum to discuss questions developed by the breakout teams and from individual participants. The results will be consolidated into a report following the conference.

Speakers are: Rick Knight, Citizens' Climate Lobby/Citizens' Climate Education, Research Coordinator Allen Lerman, Former Department of Treasury Economist Danny Richter, PhD, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Legislative & Science Director

Jessie Diggins Endorsement Video - Citizens Climate Lobby

USA Gold Medal Winter Olympian Jessie Diggins gives a shoutout for Citizens' Climate Lobby and its flagship policy Carbon Fee & Dividend:

"You can look at different solutions for the economy, but you only get one earth to live on, and you have to breathe the air that is on this earth. We have to do it in a way that doesn’t hurt families economically, which is why I’m supporting the carbon fee and dividend solution, because it puts a fee on carbon and returns the revenue to households."

CCL‘s Informational Session

Facilitated by CCL’s Elli Sparks, Dalton Jackson and Sophia Garcia, this session will help you learn more about Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Learn how you can make a difference by bringing Americans together around climate solutions with respect, integrity, and love.

Updated 7/5/2024

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
(0:00) Introduction & CCL's Background
(2:55) Five Levers of Political Will
(11:09) Our Policy Goals
(18:36) Our Core Values
(27:11) Connect With Your Chapter
(28:59) Take Action Now - Writing Congress
(34:38) Next Steps & Getting Involved 

Helpful links:
Join CCL: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/join-citizens-climate-lobby/   
New Volunteer Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/new-volunteer   
Share your interests with us: https://cclusa.org/info-connect   
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobby/ 

Core Volunteer Training: Communicating Across The Aisle

This training features Jim Tolbert, CCL Conservative Director and Stephanie Doyle, National Outreach and Partnership Coordinator.

Communication is critically important in engaging with conversations that advance support for solutions like Carbon Fee and Dividend that manage climate change risks.

As advocates for climate change policy, CCL volunteers may need to overcome preconceptions of who we are, how we operate, and what we’re about.

Jim and Stephanie will show how solutions-focused climate change communicators can convey their message more effectively to both conservative and progressive audiences.

 

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

Core Volunteer Training: Lobby Training & Practice Scenarios

In Lobby Training & Practice Scenario, join Amy Bennett, CCL's Director of Liaisons and Lobby Days, in a training that will review how to prepare for meeting your member of Congress and practice in a live role-play scenario by demonstrating what these meetings look like in action.

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.

Nathaniel Stinnett | Citizens' Climate Lobby | June 2018 Monthly Speaker

If political will is the key to enacting effective climate policies, there’s a big obstacle that needs to be overcome: Many environmentalists are not showing up to vote. Joining our June call is Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of Environmental Voter Project. Their mission is to identify citizens concerned about environmental issues who are staying home on election day and turn them into active voters. Stinnett has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns. He was named one of America’s 50 environmental visionaries and is a frequent speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques at top universities and campaign management trainings.

Citizens' Climate University: Final Conference/Lobby Day Logistics

Are you curious about what to expect about the conference and lobby day?

Join hosts ​Taylor ​Krause, CCL's Executive Assistant to the Executive Director and Adeline DeYoung, CCL's Project Specialist, for a final walk-through of the who, what, when, where, how and why of the 2018 International Conference & Lobby Day in Washington, DC.

If you’re attending for the first time​ this is ​a highly valuable webinar in preparing for what to expect with the schedule, logistics, and final details.

CCL Training: Building More Diverse and Inclusive Chapters

Join CCL Diversity Outreach Coordinator & Development Associate Princella Talley for a training that helps provide CCL volunteers with suggestions and actions to build inclusive chapters that promote equity with diverse representation.

Skip ahead to the following section(s):
Climate & Culture Action Team (2:25)
Case Study: Third Coast Regional Conference (5:05)
Learning From Other Sectors (9:14)
Local Impacts to Environmental Quality  (11:03)
Learn What You Can Do For Your Community (13:28)
When Entering New Spaces (14:13)
Evaluate & Act (16:30)
More Support (21:24)

Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/building-inclusive-chapters

CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/458