Citizens' Climate Lobby

Citizens' Climate University: Congressional Education Day Meeting Preparations

Join CCL’s Executive Director Mark Reynolds and Madeleine Para, VP of Programs, to walk through the final details and process of preparing for your Congressional Education Day meetings with your member(s) of Congress.

The webinar highlights a powerful outline for your own meetings as well as Mark and Madeleine’s recommendations on best practices and how to conduct effective communication during your meeting.

Join in to listen to Mark and Madeleine’s own reflections on their role as citizen advocates along with time at the end to practice discussing key skills and messages.

CCL Agriculture Series: Connecting with Farmers on Climate (Audio)

Audio Only: Join Tom Driscoll (National Farmers’ Union) in a discussion that highlights salient points that farmers may respond especially well to, or are particularly important to their operations, regarding climate change. It will also identify opportunities to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and the advantages to be achieved by doing so. Tom Driscoll is the Director of the NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy. He works to mobilize farmers for beneficial climate action and to inform policymakers of how best to work with farmers to secure the food system as the climate changes.

Citizens Climate Radio Ep 17 Resilient Power Puerto Rico

 

 

Show host, Peterson Toscano traveled to the island of Manhattan and met with someone engaged in hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. Ofelia Mangen, an Educational Designer and Technologist  at New York University, talks about climate change and Resilient Power Puerto Rico. This NY-based project has brought emergency solar power to the Puerto Rico. In addition, they are engaged in a project to provide long-term solar production. Ofelia talks about her own experiences in Rockaway, NY during Superstorm Sandy, and useful lessons she learned about resiliency. 

Art House

Peterson shares three books that look back at Hurricane Katrina. Learn about a graphic novel, a work of non-fiction, and a book of poetry

• A.D New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

Puzzler Question

We hear your voicemail answers to last month's puzzler question regarding Larry, who thinks windmills are downright ugly.  

This month's puzzler

You are chatting with a neighbor. Let's call her Joan. Joan has family in Florida who were affected by Hurricane Irma. You start talking about climate change and the connections you see to these current weather events. Joan interrupts you, "No you are wrong. Climate change has nothing to do with these hurricanes. They have always had hurricanes. Scientists make it clear that there is no way you can say climate change has anything to do with these storms."

So, is Joan right? How can you effectively and accurately talk about these weather events and climate change?

 Get back to Peterson by November, 15, 2017. You can also email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org or leave a voicemail of 3 minutes or less at 570.483.8194. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.)

Dig Deeper

• A More Climate Resilient Puerto Rico? Yale Climate Connections
• Love for Puerto Rico: fundraising album by Nickodemus and Friends
• The Disturbing Numbers on Puerto Rico A Month After Maria Time Magazine 

You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Podbean, Northern Spirit Radio, Google Play, 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.

Barbara Love | Citizens' Climate Lobby | October 2017 Monthly Speaker

As CCL looks to build relationships across race and culture, our October guest is Barbara Love, Professor Emeritus of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She taught graduate classes on foundations of social justice education, design development and facilitation skills, and on self-awareness for social justice educators and liberation workers.

She is recognized globally for her work on organizational and societal transformation and on issues of diversity, inclusion, and liberation. She directs the Black Liberation and Community Development Project of the International ReEvaluation Counseling Communities. Her publications appear in a variety of journals and anthologies and focus on personal, organizational, and societal transformation and strategies for liberation.

Citizens' Climate University: Preparing for Radio & TV Interviews

Join media consultant and trainer Aaron Huertas, former Communications Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists in a skills-building webinar preparing volunteers to be interviewed on radio and television.

Learn how to prepare​ for and respond to interview​ questions,​ ​keep the interview on track, and learn effective dialogue skill​s with journalists.

Joining Aaron, CCL’s Action Coordinator Todd Elvins and CCL’s Communications Coordinator, Flannery Winchester, introduce the new CCL Broadcast Media Action Team,​ which is focused on preparing CCL volunteers ​to be interviewed on radio and TV.

Citizens' Climate University: Preparing for Radio & TV Interviews (Audio)

Audio Only: Join media consultant and trainer Aaron Huertas, former Communications Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists in a skills-building webinar preparing volunteers to be interviewed on radio and television.

Learn how to prepare​ for and respond to interview​ questions,​ ​keep the interview on track, and learn effective dialogue skill​s with journalists.

Joining Aaron, CCL’s Action Coordinator Todd Elvins and CCL’s Communications Coordinator, Flannery Winchester, introduce the new CCL Broadcast Media Action Team,​ which is focused on preparing CCL volunteers ​to be interviewed on radio and TV.

CCL Agriculture Series: Opportunities for Climate Change Solutions in 2018 Farm Bill (Audio)

Audio Only: Join Alyssa Charney, policy specialist at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) in Washington D.C for the second installment in CCL's Agriculture Action Team's series. Alyssa’s talk covers the basics of the farm bill, opportunities to address climate change in the next farm bill, and relevant proposals that NSAC is advocating for in the 2018 Farm Bill.

Citizens' Climate University: Boosting Your Chapter's Social Media Game

Join Ashley Hunt-Martorano, CCL's Director of Marketing and Events, in a webinar geared at enhancing your chapter's use of Facebook and Twitter. This webinar will help you learn how to recruit new members, inform and engage the public, motivate action and connect with other organizations—both online and in real life.

Citizens' Climate University: Boosting Your Chapter's Social Media Game (Audio)

Audio Only: Join Ashley Hunt-Martorano, CCL's Director of Marketing and Events, in a webinar geared at enhancing your chapter's use of Facebook and Twitter. This webinar will help you learn how to recruit new members, inform and engage the public, motivate action and connect with other organizations—both online and in real life.

CCL Agricultural Series on Carbon Farming: Regenerative Agriculture for Climate Stabilization

Join guest speaker Connor Stedman of AppleSeed Permaculture, an ecological designer and educator, specializing in applying carbon practices to grow resilience and profitability on working land.

In this new six-week webinar series, learn how farmers can implement these practices, what policies they need to scale up the process, and how you can help. These online presentations are hosted by the CCL Agriculture Action Team, for a six-part series called “Agriculture at the Table: Land Use Practices that Extract and Store Carbon.”