Citizens' Climate Lobby

Citizens' Climate Lobby episodes:

• 04.26.2024

  Antarctic Awakenings: Unveiling Climate Change at the Ends of the Earth with Elizabeth Rush and Brett Cease

  We feature two eyewitnesses to the wonder and weirdness of Antarctica. PLUS puppies!

  
• 04.19.2024

  CCL Training: Bringing Policy Support from Trusted Messengers to Congress

  The CCL Government Affairs team is recommending that all chapters secure at least one letter from a trusted messenger to their member of Congress (MOC) and deliver the letter in a June lobby meeting. Folks in your chapter likely know...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Ernesto Alcantar, Potential Energy Coalition | April 2024 Monthly Speakers | Citizens' Climate Lobby

  Join CCL for our April monthly meeting to hear more from our campaign partners Potential Energy about our focus for Earth Month on talking about climate change. For such a big challenge, we don’t talk much about climate change. All...

  
• 04.12.2024

  CCL Training: Managing Your Money In Your Group

  Especially with big tabling events for Earth Day and our annual conference coming up, many chapters may be in need of support in figuring out how to manage their local funds. This training will walk through various ways to raise...

  
• 04.05.2024

  CCL Training: Climate Conversations Campaign For Earth Month

  Find out more: https://cclusa.org/conversations  For such a big challenge, we don’t talk much about climate change. All that silence means that climate change can feel less important to pay attention to than it really is. After all, if we’re not talking...

  
• 03.29.2024

  CCL Training: Diversity & Inclusion Updates (2024)

  Join CCL's Diversity & Inclusion Director Karina Ramirez for a training that will provide an update on all of the Diversity and Inclusion initiatives CCL has been up to in the past year of our programming.   Skip ahead to the following...

  
• 03.22.2024

  CCL Training: 2024 Conservative Climate Leadership Conference Highlights

  Join us for a half hour recap of some of the best parts of CCL's 2024 Conservative Conference presentations and keynotes. We'll plan on watching shorter segments that sample highlights from through the conference's line-up of speakers. Skip ahead to the...

  
• 03.22.2024

  CCL Podcast: What is Your Climate Change Role?

  What is your Role on this rapidly changing planet? Hear a lively and informative conversation about the roles of Rebel, Advocate, Helper, and Organizer.

  
• 03.15.2024

  CCL Training: Empowering Your Requesting Workshop

  The strength of CCL's chapters runs on volunteer leaders feeling empowered to make requests, especially requesting volunteers to participate.  This session, lead by Jean Ritok, former Group Co-Leader of the Raleigh Durham Chapter, takes you from your existing skill level in asking, to...

  
• 03.09.2024

  CCL Training: Planning Your March Drop-off Member Of Congress's Local Office

  Your members of Congress (MOCs) will be working in their district/state offices during the last week of March and first week of April. Join this training to learn more recommendations to help your MOCs keep the policies in CCL’s policy...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Karina Ramirez and Drew Eyerly | March 2024 Monthly Speakers | Citizens' Climate Lobby

  Citizens' Climate Lobby's Karina Ramirez and Drew Eyerly will present on "Understanding What You Don't Understand," which outlines the importance of working together while embracing differences. Andrew (Drew) Eyerly serves as CCL’s Conservative Outreach Director, where he lends a conservative...

  
• 03.01.2024

  CCL Training: New Research on the Benefits from the BIG WIRES Act

  Researchers from MIT recently published a paper detailing all of the great benefits that would come from passing the BIG WIRES Act, and researchers from Vanderbilt published a study about the big role household electrification and efficiency will play in...

  
• 02.23.2024

  CCL Training: Crafting Impactful Conservative Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor

  Learn how to get your conservative-friendly Op-Eds and LTEs in your local publications and how to craft impactful messages for conservative areas in this panel moderated by CCL’s State and Local Media Coordinator, Charlotte Ward! Hear from our expert panelists: Mary Anna...

  
• 02.23.2024

  There's Something Funny About Climate Change

  Join us as we follow Brian Etling, the Climate Change Comedian, on his quest to make a difference with a dash of humor. Take a virtual tour of a groundbreaking package-free store and hear how youth claim their place at...

  
• 02.10.2024

  Sam Daley-Harris | February 2024 Monthly Meeting | Citizens' Climate Lobby

  In July 2007, CCL founder Marshall Saunders asked Sam Daley-Harris to coach him on starting the first CCL chapters. Sam continued to coach CCL leaders over the next 7 years. Sam founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, co-founded the...

  
• 02.09.2024

  CCL Training: What Happened At COP28?

  Join Citizens' Climate International Executive Director Joseph Robertson for training that will provide a summary of the main impacts, takeaways and results of this past December's gathering of the UN Conference of the Parties in Dubai.  Skip ahead to the following...

  
• 02.02.2024

  CCL Training: 2024 Media Opportunities

  Join CCL's Communications Team Flannery Winchester and Charlotte Ward for a training that will provide a broad overview of the opportunities chapters have as we begin 2024 to engage with their local news media on climate solutions.  Skip ahead to the...

  
• 01.26.2024

  CCL Training: 2024 Farm Bill Legislative Overview

  Join CCL's Vice President of Government Affairs Ben Pendergrass for a training that will orient CCL volunteers towards what we expect the Farm Bill process to look like for the year, what CCL's priorities will be within the package and...

  
• 01.26.2024

  CCL Podcast Celebrates Climate Change Bipartisan Progress

  Hear about a legislative milestone and what we have in store for you in 2024

  
• 01.24.2024

  Clean Energy Transition AMA w/ Dr. Jesse Jenkins

  As we head into 2024, what questions do you have about the clean energy transition? Join superstar researcher Dr. Jesse Jenkins, lead author of the Net Zero America study and Princeton Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for an...

  
• 01.19.2024

  CCL Training: 2024 Election Engagement- Helping Climate Voters Elect Climate Champions

  In 2024, CCL wants more climate voters to vote, and we want climate to be a key issue for every candidate in every election. Join CCL's Vice President of Organizational Strategy Tony Sirna and CCL group leader Debbie Change for...

  
• 01.17.2024

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference Opening & Welcome Keynote w/ Van Jones

  Keynote speaker Van Jones, author and CNN commentator shares his thoughts on bipartisanship, grassroots advocacy, and building coalitions.   Mark Reynolds Executive Director, CCL/CCE   Van Jones CNN Commentator, Author and Social Entrepreneur

  
• 01.13.2024

  Flannery Winchester + Brett Cease | Jan. 24 Monthly Speakers | CCL Policy Roadmap & Chapter Planning

  To start off 2024, Join Communications Senior Director Flannery Winchester to find out about CCL's Legislative Roadmap and Chapter Planning Action! Flannery trains and supports volunteers to publish written pieces in local media, appear on TV and radio. She also...

  
• 01.12.2024

  CCL Training: Developing Your Chapter’s 2024 Action Plan

  Looking for what actions your chapter can take to help CCL advance climate policy this year? Join Todd Elvins, CCL's National Actions Director for a training that provides a process for developing an effective chapter action plan for your year...

  
• 01.05.2024

  CCL Training: Comparing the new Carbon Border Adjustment and Tariff Bills

  Senate Republicans in November introduced the Foreign Pollution Fee Act to impose a carbon tariff on certain imported goods. Congressional Democrats followed this with a December introduction of the Clean Competition Act to establish a similar carbon border adjustment mechanism....

  
• 12.22.2023

  Climate Change Good News

  In this episode we celebrate some of the good news the CCR Team have found for you Lily Russian, Karina Taylee, Horace Mo, and Peterson will each share with you good news stories about what is happening in the climate...

  
• 12.15.2023

  CCL Training: What’s in the Fifth National Climate Assessment Report?

  Join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will discuss the latest landmark National Climate Assessment report. This is essentially an America-specific version of the IPCC report, outlining climate trends, impacts, and solutions in each region of the...

  
• 12.09.2023

  Amanda Ripley | December 2023 Monthly Speaker | Author and Investigative Journalist

  Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, a Washington Post contributing columnist, an investigative journalist and the co-founder of Good Conflict, LLC. Her books include High Conflict, The Smartest Kids in the World and The Unthinkable. To discuss...

  
• 12.08.2023

  CCL Training: 2023 End of Year Media Opportunities

  Join CCL Communications staff for a training that will provide a review of important end of the year media opportunities including CCL's Letters To The Editor Topics and Op-Ed Templates resources. The training starts by having media managers share their...

  
• 12.01.2023

  CCL Training: Update on State-Level Implementation of Inflation Reduction Act Climate Funds

  Join Nick Burger, Deputy Director of Energy Administration in D.C.'s Department of Energy & Environment, for an overview of how state-level entities are applying for grants related to the Inflation Reduction Act and the important dates in the application process....

  
• 11.24.2023

  The Impact of Forests in our Climate Change Fight

  In this episode host Peterson Toscano guides us through an exploration of the role forests play in addressing the causes and impacts of climate change, both in urban and rural settings. Six guests provide personal narratives, expert insights, and actionable...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Improving Lives Through Game-Changing Climate Cooperation

  In 1992, the world agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. In 2023, we are seeing dangerous climate impacts play out everywhere, constantly. Risk, harm, and cost, are all piling up. Lives and livelihoods are at risk,...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Motivational Interviewing For Climate Advocacy: A Deeper Dive

  Transform the way you communicate with members of Congress and folks in your community with motivational interviewing. This workshop led by CCL’s Great Lakes Regional Coordinator John Sabin will review the basics of the technique, including incorporating open-ended questions, affirmations,...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Putting the Inflation Reduction Act’s Climate Credits In Action

  Join Dana Nuccitelli, CCL Research Coordinator, and Kristin Eberhard, Director of State and Local Policy at Rewiring America, to explore the many incentives of the Inflation Reduction Act and how to take advantage of these benefits. Individuals, homeowners, municipalities and...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conf: Resilient Climateering: Staying Strong & Steady in the Face of Climate Change

  Whether it’s the grueling nature of our long-term work or the overwhelm from concerning headlines about climate, it can be hard to have the energy and motivation to keep pushing for solutions. Thankfully, we have CCL’s Education and Resilience Coordinator,...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Make Your Lobby Meetings Memorable

  Who says lobby meetings should be formal? Learn about the fun and inventive ways Western NC, Utah, and Maine CCL chapters have engaged their members of Congress outside of conventional lobby meetings. From farm visits, to ping pong tournaments, and...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Lights Camera Action!

  The winter months are perfect for hosting climate film screenings, motivating members of your community to learn more about climate action. Join volunteers Dan Duffy, Bend, OR CCL Group Leader, and Nicola Philpott, West Suburbs, MN CCL Chapter, to hear...

  
• 11.09.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Online Climate Advocate Training

  Designed for new volunteers to understand CCL's structure, mission, purpose and methodology, and inspire you to find your role so you can hit the ground running. Required training if you plan to participate in lobbying. In this interactive workshop you...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Creative Coalition Building

  Building relationships is core to CCL’s values, and that includes working with other community groups and leaders. This showcase features Chicago, IL, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX and Delaware chapter members who will share their experiences and guidance for working with food...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Informational Session

  Be part of CCL’s biggest Informational Session! Great for folks who are just getting started or want to learn more, join this session to hear about CCL’s methods and mission, and how you can make a difference in creating the...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Good News for Climate Action

  Climate policy has come a long way over the last year! Join Dana Nuccitelli, CCL Research Coordinator, as he shares the latest updates on federal climate legislation and how it is paving the way to lower carbon emissions, record clean...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: A Chat with CCL Government Affairs

  Sit down with Ben and Jenn from CCL’s Government Affairs team to get the scoop on our upcoming virtual lobby week. Our dynamic D.C. duo will cover lobby meeting asks, current political happenings, and legislative strategy as we head into...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: CCL Group Leaders Tell All

  All across the country, CCL Group Leaders are doing the work to build political will for climate solutions. Join Elli Sparks, CCL Senior Director of Programs, as she moderates a panel of CCL chapter leaders. Learn what it’s like to...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Tried & True: CCL’s Tips for Social Media Outreach & Activism

  Join Flannery Winchester, CCL Senior Director of Communications, Nick Huey, CCL Creative Consultant, and Emily O’Keefe, Undergraduate Student at William & Mary and Founder of the Carbon Fee and Dividend Movement, to learn what’s working for CCL’s national social accounts,...

  
• 11.05.2023

  #CCL2023 Fall Conference: Closing Keynote w/ Danny Richter

  We are thrilled to welcome Danny Richter, CCL’s former VP of Government Affairs, for our closing keynote. Danny, the founder of Richter Capitol Hill Strategies, will reflect on his experience at the Pricing Carbon Initiative, a broad network fostering dialogue...

  
• 11.03.2023

  CCL Training: Leading A Lobby Team

  Join CCL staff for a training designed for those who wish to learn more about leading a lobby meeting with a member of Congress or staff. In this training, we review the role of a lobby team leader, how they...

  
• 10.27.2023

  CCL Fall 2023 Lobby Training #2: Legislative Plan, Review, and Q&A

  Join CCL's Vice President for Government Affairs Ben Pendergrass and Senior Director of Government Affairs Jennifer Tyler for a training that will review more details and the context for CCL's Fall 2023 Primary and Secondary Asks, as well as guidance...

  
• 10.27.2023

  The Best New Climate Change Books and Podcasts

  We tell you about the very best new climate change themed books and podcasts. Fiction, nonfiction, plus a good new story and action steps.

  
• 10.24.2023

  CCL Fall 2023 Lobby Training #1: Primary & Secondary Asks

  Join CCL's Vice President for Government Affairs Ben Pendergrass and Senior Director of Government Affairs Jennifer Tyler to participate in strategizing for the upcoming fall lobby meetings, get more information on the meeting asks, and have time to get your...

  
• 10.20.2023

  CCL Training: Overview and Benefits of the BIG WIRES Act

  The BIG WIRES Act has been introduced in the House and Senate. Join CCL's Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli for a training that will discuss how this policy could update and streamline the country’s patchwork energy transmission system. An updated transmission...