Citizens' Climate Lobby

Are you curious about what CCL chapters in Africa and Europe are doing? Wondering how CCL is represented at some of the global talks? Join ​Cathy Orlando, CCL’s International Outreach Manager for a CCL training to answer those questions!

This Citizens' Climate University session will cover what is going on around the world in ​CCL’s​ network in 2019, what other countries are doing in terms of carbon pricing and citizen engagement, and how CCL is engaging in international civil society meetings.

Skip ahead to the following sections:Important Maps & Resources (2:35)Canada's Policy Updates (7:18)CCL Group Stories Around the World (15:21)CCL's International Participation (25:55)

Training slides: http://cclusa.org/around-the-worldTraining webpage: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/157Follow us on FB: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Are you curious about how to improve your writing skills for climate-focused opinion-editorials?

Join ​Steve Valk, CCL’s Communications Director for a CCL training to answer those questions!

This training session covers the process for writing a new op-ed, how to successfully submit it, as well as the editorial process.

Skip ahead to the following sections:The Writing Process (3:10)Submitting Your Op-Ed & What To Do If Published (11:52)The Exended Metaphor (16:20)The Personal Narrative (19:37)The Local Angle (23:11)Recurring Events & Holidays (26:23)

Training slides: http://cclusa.org/ccu-op-edsTraining webpage: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/113Follow us on FB: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

This training highlights recommendations on communicating with progressive groups about the Energy Innovation Act, reviews the organizational statements made on behalf of the recent legislation, and walks through CCL’s ongoing plan for outreach to progressive, environmental, and climate justice organizations at the national and local level.

Skip ahead to the following sections:National Group Support (2:15)CCL National Outreach (6:05)Communications Considerations (9:40)Four Roles of Social Activism (17:57)Responding To Criticism (21:53)Local Actions & Wrap-up (33:03)

Training slides: http://cclusa.org/progressive-outreach-billTraining webpage: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/122Follow us on FB: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Join CCL's President and Founder Marshall Saunders for a special training focusing on the transformative power of storytelling.

Marshall shares his own experience starting CCL, complete with setbacks and early victories

The training opens up to all volunteer stories on the line reflecting on moment they are most proud of as a CCL volunteer and what experiences helped expand comfort zones, leading to unknown places.

Core Volunteer Training is a series specifically created to support you in becoming more active with CCL and answering any questions you might have across a wide range of topics.

Skip ahead to the following sections:The Power of Stories (2:05)The Purpose of Stories (4:54)Marshall's Story of CCL's Beginning (8:06)Stories of Empowerment & Transformation (19:20)Closing Reflection & Wrap-up (29:31)

Training slides: http://cclusa.org/ccl-storytellingTraining webpage: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/65Follow us on FB: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Are you interested in finding out more about what recent climate change research is finding out behind specific local impacts?

Join CCL Science Policy Network Leader Dana Nuccitelli for a training that provides an overview of the findings from the recent 4th National Climate Assessment Report and related research in what to anticipate in terms of impacts to sea level rise, flooding, wildfire, heat waves, drought, snowpack, ice, and biodiversity loss as well as how to frame these local impacts in your own communications.

Skip ahead to the following sections:4th National Climate Assessment Report Background (2:39)The Southeast: Sea Level Rise & Hurricanes (7:26)The Midwest & Great Plains: Flooding & Heat Waves (14:51)The Southwest: Wildfires & Drought (19:24)Alaska: Arctic Ice Loss (31:49)The Northwest: Shrinking Snowpack (33:09)The Northeast: Biodiversity (35:56)Communicating Impacts: Tools To Help Make it Local (39:04)

Training slides: cclusa.org/local-impacts-trainingTraining webpage: community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/52Follow us on FB: facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Rebels are organizing. We are witnessing a growing global student protest movement around climate change. In episode nine our host, Peterson Toscano, chatted with Quaker author, speaker, and activist, Eileen Flanagan. She described the four different roles change agents take—Helper, Organizer, Advocate, and Rebel. This month we dig deeper into the role of the rebels—groups and individuals who disrupt business as usual in order to bring about systems change. 

In addition to capturing voices of protesters from the recent student walk-out in Honolulu, Hawaii, which was part of similar actions around the world, Peterson chats with Robin Boardman, from the British group Extinction Rebellion. Robin and his friends are planning major disruptive actions in London and other parts of the UK in mid-April. What are their goals, values, and methods? Join us for this insightful and moving conversation. 

The Art House

Returning to the Art House is Hope Clark. She is a dancer concerned about climate change. In episode 18 she told us how she decided to engage her community in the Washington DC area through a public art project. To do so, she used giant parachutes. 

Creating an art piece can help us process our thoughts and feelings about a topic as large and challenging as climate change. No surprise then, once she completed the Make a Movement Parachute Community Project, Hope began to go deeper into her own feelings. She found herself returning to an old comfort—an addiction to cigarette smoking. Hope is making powerful connections between her own addictions and society's addiction to fossil fuels. Through spoken word and dance, she is exploring the comforts we seek that have failed us. 

Puzzler Question

We have been getting excellent answers to our puzzler question. We want to hold this one out for another month. We look forward to hearing from you. 

Puzzler Question

You are at a family dinner when you mention your excitement about more and more people becoming concerned about climate change. Your Uncle Ralph interrupts, “Global warming? Seriously? What about all this record cold weather we have had? It doesn’t seem its warming at all?”

 

So what do you say? How can you open up a conversation about climate change that doesn’t just turn into a debate?

Send Peterson your answers by April 15, 2019, along with your name, contact info, and where you are from. You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org or leave a voicemail of three minutes or less at 518.595.9414 (+1 if calling from outside the USA).

 

Dig Deeper

Extinction Rebellion on Twitter @ExtinctionR

Erica Chenoweth, author of Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence, inspiration to Extinction Rebellion

Gandhi's Civil Disobedience 

Environmental Organizations Outreach Training

Addiction as a Metaphor for Climate Change: An Interview with Charles Eisenstein(The Fix)

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(Photo from the Extinction Rebellion newsletter #16.)

Join Dr. Sandra Kirtland Turner, CCE Board Member and Assistant Professor of Paleoclimate at UC - Riverside for a deeper discussion about: 

Understanding the natural carbon cycle as well as the basic concepts behind climate change (4:11)

Exploring how humans factor in (11:28)

The importance behind the scientific method and peer review process (18:33)

Responding to common questions (21:31)

A Success Story: The Ozone Hole (30:24)

Final Takeaways about communicating the science of climate change (36:18)

How to take action to find out more information and connect with climate scientists local to your group (40:26)

Core Volunteer Training is specifically created to engage and support new CCL volunteers in becoming more active and answering any questions you might have across a wide range of topics.

Training Slides:  cclusa.org/cvtclimatescience

Training on CCL Community:https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/51

Facebook: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobby

Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

For those who can’t attend our Climate Advocate Training live, we provide a pre-recorded version here. After attending CCL's informational session (http://cclusa.org/intro) join Amy Bennett, CCL’s Director of Congressional Liaisons & Lobby Days, and Brett Cease, CCL’s Volunteer Education and Engagement Coordinator as they welcome you to CCL!

In this training you will:-Learn the basics of becoming an effective climate advocate (throughout)-Review the structure, mission, and values of CCL (from beginning)-Practice how to appeal to the best in others and build common ground (11:09)-Review CCL’s methodology of creating political will (20:57)-Learn how to conduct constructive meetings with elected representatives (42:42)-Review the details and further resources to understand the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act (49:24)

Slides & Notes/Transcript: http://cclusa.org/climate-advocate-training

Connect with your local chapter and explore CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/chaptersFollow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobby and Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Join Dr. Ross Astoria, CCL Board Chairman and Chair of Politics, Philosophy, and Law Department at University of Wisconsin at Parkside for a webinar exploring the important history of the Clean Air Act and how key EPA regulations would interact with federal carbon pricing like the Energy Innovation Act.

Webinar slides: http://cclusa.org/clean-air-regs

Skip ahead to the following sections:

Administrative Law Review (2:19)

Clean Air Act History & Framework (5:27)

EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations (14:07)

The Energy Innovation Act’s Pause (18:13)

Evaluation Framework For Carbon Pricing & Regulations (26:50)

Final Takeaways (39:10)

Training on CCL Community:https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/261

Facebook: http://facebook.com/citizensclimatelobby

Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizensclimate/

Additional Q&A available: https://youtu.be/v-hfah9OYJo

Enrolling support from the business community is essential to getting effective climate policies enacted by Congress. Anne Kelly, Senior Director of Policy and the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) Network at Ceres, joined our March national call to talk about making the business case for acting on climate change. Anne is an environmental lawyer with twenty-five years of combined experience in the private and public sectors.

CCL Monthly Action Sheet: https://cclusa.org/actionsheetCCL Monthly Donor Program: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/donate/In-District Meeting Asks: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/237South Florida Supports HR 763: https://energyinnovationact.org/supporters-overview/