Citizens' Climate Lobby

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

Lobby Training: Leading A Lobby Meeting

This lesson is for those who wish to learn more about leading a lobby meeting with a member of Congress or staff.

In this lesson, Sabrina Fu, CCL's Mid-Atlantic Regional Co-Coordinator and Brett Cease, CCL’s Volunteer Education and Engagement Coordinator, review the role of a lobby leader, how they assign team roles, coordinating practice times and how to handle other special situations.

Lobby Training: Leading A Lobby Meeting (Audio)

Audio Only: This lesson is for those who wish to learn more about leading a lobby meeting with a member of Congress or staff.

In this lesson, Sabrina Fu, CCL's Mid-Atlantic Regional Co-Coordinator and Brett Cease, CCL’s Volunteer Education and Engagement Coordinator, review the role of a lobby leader, how they assign team roles, coordinating practice times and how to handle other special situations.

CC Radio Ep 24 Climate Comedy

Conversations about climate change can get downright dire and dreary. But isn't there room for comedy? Brian Ettling is a comic who is not ashamed to pull out a rubber chicken for a gag. He joins show host, Peterson Toscano for a lively conversation about climate comedy.

Art House

Playwright Chantal Bilodeau returns to the Art House. This time she tells us about two visual artists whose work helps make the invisible worlds of pollution and climate change visual in very visceral ways. Learn about American artist, Eve Mosher with her flood lines, and Chinese artist, Brother Nut and his pollution bricks.

Puzzler

Should we just wait for a technical fix to climate change? We hear what you have to say to Samantha who believes geo-engineering will solve all of our climate woes.

New Puzzler Question

You are on a break with a co-worker, let's call him Murphy. You tell Murphy about a climate change conference you attended hoping to engage him in conversation. Murphy blurts out, "Seriously. I never pegged you as one of those save the whales and the polar bears kinda person. The way I see it, humans are the most adaptable beings on earth. Whatever is coming our way, we will be able to handle it. Sucks for other creatures, but humans will be just fine."

Murphy has put just you in a certain environmental box. It may or may not be a fit for you. But how can you respond to Murphy to help crack open the conversation?

Send Peterson your answers. Leave your name, contact info, and where you are from.

Get back to him by July, 15, 2018. You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org or better yet leave a voicemail of 3 minutes or less at 570.483.8194. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.)

Dig Deeper

• Brian Ettling's YouTube Channel
• Tosh.O featuring Brian Ettling
• The Arctic Cycle
• Eve Mosher, visual artist
• Brother Nut's Pollution Bricks (New York Times)

You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, 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.

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Lobby Training 401: Handling Difficult Scenarios

Curveballs sometimes stress us out more than they should.

However, equipping yourself to overcome these situations will lead to more informed discussions about the benefits of Carbon Fee and Dividend and empower others to become partners in building the political will for the climate solutions we need.

Join CCL's Southeast Director Don Addu & Northeast Regional Coordinator Iona Lutey in the final lesson of our four-part lobbying series as they discuss how to handle difficult situations and hot-button issues to help you feel prepared to keep your meetings from getting sidetracked and stay on topic.

Lobby Training 401: Handling Difficult Scenarios (Audio)

Audio Only: Curveballs sometimes stress us out more than they should.

However, equipping yourself to overcome these situations will lead to more informed discussions about the benefits of Carbon Fee and Dividend and empower others to become partners in building the political will for the climate solutions we need.

Join CCL's Southeast Director Don Addu & Northeast Regional Coordinator Iona Lutey in the final lesson of our four-part lobbying series as they discuss how to handle difficult situations and hot-button issues to help you feel prepared to keep your meetings from getting sidetracked and stay on topic.