October 21, 2019

Ep 47: Mark Reynolds, Executive Director at Citizens' Climate Lobby

54 minutes

Today’s guest is Mark Reynolds, Executive Director at Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

Executive Director Mark Reynolds’ tenure at Citizens’ Climate Lobby has been marked by exceptionally rapid growth, with the organization doubling or tripling in size every year.

During his years as a private sector trainer and consultant, Citizens’ Climate Education Executive Director Mark Reynolds worked to maximize personal and organizational effectiveness in a variety of fields. Today, he uses those skills to empower ordinary citizens to educate influential stakeholders about the benefits of national climate solutions. As a globally-recognized expert on helping disparate interests find common ground on energy, public policy, and the environment, Mark has appeared before the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, AREday, and Power Shift. He oversees a training curriculum that reaches tens of thousands of supporters every year, has been a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, and has written op-eds on climate solutions for 85 print journals, including the Houston Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Des Moines Register, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Salt Lake Tribune. Mark also serves on multiple advisory boards including Climate Advocate Platform and Climate Cost Project.

In today’s episode, we cover:

CCL founding story and their areas of focus

The growth CCL has had under Mark’s leadership, and why Mark feels that is

Polarized government and implications for getting things done

Details of their carbon fee and dividend proposal

Where things stand today and where they need to go

Some headwind with their proposal and carbon pricing in general

The CCL playbook and plan of attack

Discussion on how bills get signed into law and what this bill would need to get signed into law

Learnings from Waxman Markey

How people can help

Parallels Mark draws to cigarette smoking

GND and price on carbon

If Mark could wave magic want to accelerate their efforts, what would he change and why

Links to topics discussed in this episode:

Citizens’ Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

Marshall Saunders: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/citizens-climate-lobbys-founder/

Microcredit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit

Citizens’ Climate International conference: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/2019-conference/

Collective action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action

David Jolly CCL interview: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/a-former-republican-congressmans-take-on-the-midterms/

Theda Skocpol: https://scholar.harvard.edu/thedaskocpol/home

Grover Norquist tax pledge: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-grover-norquist-pledge-signers-list-fiscal-cliff-republicans-tax-2012-11

Climate Leadership Council: https://www.clcouncil.org/

Jonathan Haidt TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind?language=en

EICDA: https://teddeutch.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399493

Frank Luntz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz

Frank Luntz’s call for climate action: https://grist.org/article/the-gops-most-famous-messaging-strategist-calls-for-climate-action/

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