Citizens' Climate Lobby

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.

Citizens' Climate University: Harnessing Broadcast Media Outreach (Audio)

Audio Only: Join CCL Leader and AP Photojournalist Eve Simmons in a webinar geared at understanding the role of the media within the larger frame of climate change communication.

Learn how to engage your local and national media outlets to highlight stories of climate impacts and concisely articulate the importance of framing them in terms of time and place.

Citizens' Climate University: Harnessing Broadcast Media Outreach

Join CCL Leader and AP Photojournalist Eve Simmons in a webinar geared at understanding the role of the media within the larger frame of climate change communication.

Learn how to engage your local and national media outlets to highlight stories of climate impacts and concisely articulate the importance of framing them in terms of time and place.

Citizens' Climate University: Weather Attribution & Climate Change (Audio)

Audio Only: Join CCL Leader & Chemical Engineer Rick Knight in a webinar geared at helping you understand what the science of weather attribution is and who is doing it. The lessons helps describe the process for how connecting climate change with extreme weather events is done and what it has found as well as how we as CCL volunteers can employ effective communication in using its research and findings.

Citizens' Climate University: Weather Attribution & Climate Change

Join CCL Leader & Chemical Engineer Rick Knight in a webinar geared at helping you understand what the science of weather attribution is and who is doing it.

The lessons helps describe the process for how connecting climate change with extreme weather events is done and what it has found as well as how we as CCL volunteers can employ effective communication in using its research and findings.

CCR Ep 18 Aaron Telitz Race Driver Climate Advocate

Today on the show you are going to meet an unlikely climate advocate, Aaron Telitz--an Indy car racer. Originally from Birchwood, WI, Aaron grew up at a fishing resort and could filet a bluegill fish in 25 seconds. Wanting to experience the thrill of more speed, Aaron turned to amateur car racing which led to professional racing. This past season he did something radical--he charged himself a carbon fee for all of the oil, gas, and tires he used. Host, Peterson Toscano interviews Aaron about this incredibly fast car yet surprisingly effiecient car, carbon pricing, Aaron's favorite foods, and much more. 

Art House

Hope Clark is the director of Wheebarrow Productions. A trained dancer from the USA, Hope began doing community art in Northern Africa. Now based in Kent County Maryland, USA, Hope has turned her attention towards climate change. She is working on a community art piece called Make a Movement. This is a work in progress. Learn how she is attempting to use movement and a very large parachute to help community members young and old to explore climate change. 

Puzzler

Hear an answer to last month's puzzler question: Are these recent extreme weather events in the USA and beyond caused by climate change? 

New Puzzler Question

It is actually not a puzzler, just a question. Do you like this puzzler question segement? Is it helpful? Should we continue with it? Do you have puzzler question suggestions. 

Get back to Peterson by December 20, 2017. Write him: info @ citizensclimate .org

Dig Deeper

• CCL Blog Post about Aaron Telitz pricing carbon and donating the fee
• Learn how a Quaker meeting in New England is experimenting with self-imposed carbon fees. 
• Artists and Climate Change. Discover many more artists reaching out to the public

Next months episode will explore mental health issues and climate change (drops 25 December 2017)

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