Citizens' Climate Lobby

Citizens' Climate University: Developing Your Chapter's Action Plan (Audio)

Audio Only: Join CCL's Action Coordinator Todd Elvins in a webinar geared at helping your chapter personalize your plan for what and how to communicate with media, grassroots, and other stakeholders if 2018 becomes the big year for a bill being introduced!

Citizens' Climate University: Developing Your Chapter's Action Plan

Join CCL's Action Coordinator Todd Elvins in a webinar geared at helping your chapter personalize your plan for what and how to communicate with media, grassroots, and other stakeholders if 2018 becomes the big year for a bill being introduced!

Citizens' Climate University: How To Host a Successful Site Visit (Audio)

Audio Only: One of the big events CCL volunteers prepare for every year is the Spring Lobby Drive and setting up in-district lobby meetings with our members of Congress. Part of that effort might include hosting a site visit for your member of Congress.

Citizens’ Climate University hosts a webinar led by CCL’s Field Director Elli Sparks and featuring in-depth case studies and best practice stories from CCL leaders like Lisa DelBuono (Rep. Bergman) and Tom Moyer (Rep. Love) about how they planned and successfully hosted site visits for their members of Congress.

Citizens' Climate University: How To Host a Successful Site Visit

One of the big events CCL volunteers prepare for every year is the Spring Lobby Drive and setting up in-district lobby meetings with our members of Congress. Part of that effort might include hosting a site visit for your member of Congress.

Citizens’ Climate University hosts a webinar led by CCL’s Field Director Elli Sparks and featuring in-depth case studies and best practice stories from CCL leaders like Lisa DelBuono (Rep. Bergman) and Tom Moyer (Rep. Love) about how they planned and successfully hosted site visits for their members of Congress.

CC Radio Ep 19 Promoting Emotional Health and Bee Populations

Being a climate advocate can be an emotional rollercoaster. This is especially true for millennials. From childhood they heard about the many impending dangers threatening their future happiness. How do these feelings affect each of us? How do we cope? How do we move past paralyzing despair to a place of hope and action?

Podcast host, Peterson Toscano, shares a conversation he had with Marlo Firme, a Canadian CCL volunteer climate lobbyist. Marlo powerfully reveals the many ways climate change has affected him personally and professionally. From his boyhood in the Philippines to living in British Columbia, Canada, Marlo could not ignore climate change. Still he found a beautiful way forward. He shares is insights and wisdom. 

The Art House

Can art save the bees? Sculptor Emily Puthoff is a attempting to do just that through the Hudson Valley Bee Habitat. She along with her fellow artists are engaging their community in a large scale art project that builds bee habitats. Learn about this ambitious project and about the essential roles bees play in our everyday life. 

 

Kingston Bee-Line from Emily Puthoff on Vimeo.

Puzzler Question

Do you find having a puzzler question is a helpful feature in the podcast? Tell us if you want to continue with the puzzler question section or if you think we should try something different. Contact Peterson: radio @ citizensclimate.org 

Dig Deeper

• Climate Change and Mental Health, Psycholgists for Social Responsibility
• NYC is tackling a mental health crisis caused by Hurricaine Sandy, Grist
• Climate Changes Mental Health, American Public Health Association
• Climate Change and Mental Health, Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• Buzzing about Climate Change, NASA article about bees
• A Stinging Report: Climate change a major threat to bumble bees, Science Daily
• Hudson Valley Bee Habitat
• Kingston, NY Greenline
• Artistic Wishes Granted, feature on Emily Puthoff

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Citizens' Climate University: Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, & Human Health Connections (Audio)

Audio Only: One of the most powerful opportunities for common ground we as CCL volunteers can make in our discussions about the impacts of climate change is the many ways it is already negatively impacting human health.

Join CCL Health Action Team co-leads​ Drs. Robert Byron, MD, and Cynthia Mahoney, MD, to learn more about the connections between our changing climate, fossil fuel air pollution and human health, how to communicate about it effectively with the public, and the many major medical organizations already supporting climate action.

Citizens' Climate University: Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, & Human Health Connections

One of the most powerful opportunities for common ground we as CCL volunteers can make in our discussions about the impacts of climate change is the many ways it is already negatively impacting human health.

Join CCL Health Action Team co-leads​ Drs. Robert Byron, MD, and Cynthia Mahoney, MD, to learn more about the connections between our changing climate, fossil fuel air pollution and human health, how to communicate about it effectively with the public, and the many major medical organizations already supporting climate action.

Citizens' Climate University: Effective Listening (Around the Holidays & Beyond) (Audio)

Audio Only: During social gatherings, we often see lots of people who have opinions that are different from our own. To help us prepare for those conversations and practice our listening skills join CCL volunteer Chris Hoffman (M.Ed., M.B.A., L.P.C.) in a webinar geared to helping us understand the phases of the communication process, and learn the seven key skills of effective listening.  Effective listening is a foundational skill for more advanced work in communications, including Motivational Interviewing.

Citizens' Climate University: Effective Listening (Around the Holidays & Beyond)

During social gatherings, we often see lots of people who have opinions that are different from our own. To help us prepare for those conversations and practice our listening skills join CCL volunteer Chris Hoffman (M.Ed., M.B.A., L.P.C.) in a webinar geared to helping us understand the phases of the communication process, and learn the seven key skills of effective listening.  Effective listening is a foundational skill for more advanced work in communications, including Motivational Interviewing.

José Aguto | Citizens' Climate Lobby | December 2017 Monthly Speaker

 

José Aguto is Associate Director of Catholic Climate Covenant, where he raises up the call to care for creation and care for the poor. Prior to joining Catholic Climate Covenant, he was Legislative Secretary for Sustainable Energy and Environment at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Aguto was one of CCL’s earliest allies on Capitol Hill and worked with CCL on the introduction of the Republican Climate Resolution, which eventually led to the formation of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus. Aguto has also worked for the National Congress of American Indians in the service of tribal governments seeking to address climate change.