Citizens' Climate Lobby

Leading large chapters Q&A

In this question and answer period, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para, Portland chapter leader Tamara Staton, and Salt Lake City chapter leader Dave Folland answer questions from leaders of large chapters.

Leading large CCL chapters

In this lesson, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para, Portland chapter leader Tamara Staton, and Salt Lake City chapter leader Dave Folland share ideas and tips on leading large volunteer chapters.

Hahrie Han | Citizens' Climate Lobby | January 2016 Monthly Speaker

Our guest speaker at our January meeting is Hahrie Han. Han is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the politics of environmental and social policy, focusing particularly on the role that civic associations play in mobilizing participation in politics and policy advocacy.

Leading Tiny CCL Chapters

In this lesson, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para and leaders of small chapters share ideas and tips on leading small chapters.  

Making the Dividend Work

The #1 topic Congressional Offices in June 2015 was the dividend part of Carbon Fee and Dividend. Mostly, these were questions, and most urgently, staffers and MOCs wanted to know how would the dividend work? To answer such issues, CCL commissioned Allen Lerman, who worked for over 40 years at the US Treasury department. Lerman coordinated and supervised the implementation of the 2003 and 2008 tax rebate programs for individual taxpayers on behalf of Treasury, and designed the withholding changes used to pay the 2009-­2010 Making Work Pay credit on a current basis. In short, he is probably the most qualified person in the country for figuring out how to get a dividend to as many Americans as possible. 

David Titley | Citizens' Climate Lobby | December 2015 Monthly Speaker

Our guest for the December call is Dr. David Titley, a professor of practice in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of their Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He was also NOAA’s chief operating officer from 2012-2013. Before assuming these positions, he was a rear admiral and the chief oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, in which he served for 32 years.

 

While serving in the Pentagon, Dr. Titley initiated and led the US Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change.

Rob Williams | Citizens' Climate Lobby | November 2015 Monthly Speaker

Our guest for the November call is Rob Williams, Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs at Resources for the Future (RFF). He’ll discuss results from two recent papers RFF published that examine the different impacts a revenue-neutral carbon fee would have across U.S. states and across income quintiles if the revenue was recycled to reduce corporate taxes, to reduce payroll taxes, or returned as a dividend.

Climate Advocate Training Lesson 1

The first of two Climate Advocate Training podcasts offered by Citizens’ Climate University. Lesson one reviews the structure of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, building relationships with elected representatives, creating political will, appealing to the best in others and practicing laser talks.

Citizens’ Climate University is an initiative of Citizen’s Climate Education.

Move Over Misconception

In this lesson CCL's Elli Sparks challenges us to consider the possibility of outcomes to a conversation when a CCL volunteer asks questions instead of lecturing? Can we build political will by focusing on others? How can we train ourselves to “seek first to understand, rather than be understood”?

Planning for and running an effective group meeting

The following is a discussion from CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para regarding how to prepare for and how to lead a CCL monthly meeting. 

People will stick with CCL when they feel included at the meetings and when the meetings leave them with a sense of hope and progress. You don’t want them to feel unwelcome or like they are wasting their time. The goal is to have as many people as possible engaged in productive actions that are meaningful to them.