Citizens' Climate Lobby

Lobbying 401 - Advanced Lobbying Skills

In this lesson, Citizens' Climate Education's Executive Director Mark Reynolds and Strategic Partnerships Coordinator Andy Beahrs discuss handling stressful lobby situations, listening for values, and how to move people past their misconceptions.

Lobbying 301 - The Lobby Meeting

The third of our four-part lobbying series focuses on the actual lobby meeting. Using role play, we demonstrate two meetings scenarios before reviewing other important meeting elements like supporting asks and listening for and connecting on shared values. 

Dr. James Hansen | Citizens' Climate Lobby | May 2016 Monthly Speaker

Dr. James Hansen was our guest for the May 2016 monthly call. Dr. Hansen is the American adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Recognized by many as America’s leading climate scientist, Dr. Hansen is a member of CCL’s Advisory Board and is a strong advocate for CCL’s Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal. He is the author of Storms of My Grandchildren, and he recently spoke at the Berkshire-Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha to urge support for a revenue-neutral fee on carbon.

Lobbying 201 - Preparing for a lobby meeting

This Citizens' Climate University audio lesson covers how to prepare for a meeting with a member of Congress, including researching your member of Congress, assigning meeting roles and the power of practice.

Lobbying 101

This is the first in a series of four lobby training podcasts. In Lobbying 101, we review the basics of the U.S. Congress, discuss what it’s like to be a citizen lobbyist and demonstrate how citizens can build meaningful, long-term relationships with a congressional office. 

The Household Impacts Study Update

In this update to the original Household Impacts Study lesson, CCL's Science and Legislative Director Danny Richter discusses the datasets used to fine tune the results and the resulting updated charts. The Household Impacts study estimates the impact our policy would have zip code by zip code, congressional district by congressional district, state by state, and for the nation as a whole. It breaks down what % of constituents in each geographic unit end up ahead by economic quintile, by race, and by various other useful distinctions.

High-performing teams

In this lesson, we introduce the concept of total motivation and adaptive performance and discuss how to work them into your CCL team culture locally. Additionally, you'll hear from folks several CCL folks about what they are doing locally to create the conditions within which teams can motivate themselves.

The concepts and framework discussed in this lesson are based on the research of Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi (not CCL volunteers) in their book Primed to Perform: How to build the highest performing cultures through the science of total motivation.

 

Tabling 301: Effective Communication Skills

Tabling 301 provides examples of best practices in connecting with people, listening, and effective communication skills while tabling.

CCL Training: Tabling At An Event

Join Tamara Staton, CCL Education & Resilience Coordinator for a training all about tabling and how to get started. Tabling is one of the best ways to educate and encourage people to take action, or you might be able to find some folks interested in joining CCL. Additionally, tabling is a low-risk, non-threatening way for newer volunteers to develop quickly their listening skills and practice their storytelling about CCL and climate solutions.

Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/cvt-grassroots 
CCL Community Training Page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/290 

To skip ahead to a specific section go to the time indicated in parenthesis.

Intro and Grassroots Outreach Review
(from the beginning)

Tabling Basics: What, Where, When
(3:35)

Preparing to Table
(8:35)

Connecting With Attendees
(13:20)

Renee Lertzman | Citizens' Climate Lobby | April 2016 Monthly Speaker

Author, teacher, consultant and public speaker Renee Lertzman was the guest for CCL’s April 2016 call. She teaches Psychology of Environmental Education and Communication in the MA program at Royal Roads University in British Columbia. Ms. Lertzman’s work focuses on the intersection of psychology, environment and culture to help organizations, governments and businesses devise communication and engagement strategies for the uniquely challenging nature of environmental work. Her latest book is Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement.