Citizens' Climate Lobby

Audio Only: Join Dr. Robin Cooper, CCL San Francisco Leader, Psychiatrist, and Co-Founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, in a webinar focused on the particular vulnerability and emotional challenges that engaged climate advocates face. Dr. Cooper reviews climate change impacts on our mental health as well as challenging emotional responses, problematic and successful coping strategies, and new concepts in the research of eco-anxiety while offering strategies to avoid burn-out while engaging in sustaining emotional well-being and long-term advocacy.

Joan Blades and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded the political action group MoveOn.org in 1997. In 2006, she co-founded MomsRising.org, dedicated to “bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force.” Her latest project, Living Room Conversations, seeks to bridge the political divide in America by encouraging people with differing views to come together for respectful discussions. These conversations increase understanding, reveal common ground, and sometimes even allow us to discuss possible solutions.

Joan Blades and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded the political action group MoveOn.org in 1997. In 2006, she co-founded MomsRising.org, dedicated to “bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force.” Her latest project, Living Room Conversations, seeks to bridge the political divide in America by encouraging people with differing views to come together for respectful discussions. These conversations increase understanding, reveal common ground, and sometimes even allow us to discuss possible solutions.

The Carbon Fee and Dividend Calculator is a easy-to-use online tool to estimate the financial outcome of the policy for an individual household under the first-year carbon dioxide fee of $15 per metric ton. It's a way to take the abstract statistical findings of the Household Impact Study down to the personal level. Join Rick Knight, CCE's Research Coordinator and Ricky Bradley, CCL's IT Director as they walk through this CCL-created powerful new tool for all CCL volunteers. To use the Calculator, you will need to be able to supply seven key pieces of information: number of adults in your household, number of children, annual household income (nearest $1,000), zip code, what type of car you drive, type of dwelling (house, apartment, etc.), and the type of home heating (electricity, natural gas, etc.). That information will allow the Calculator to compute your household dividend and make a "default" estimate of what the carbon fee will cost a typical household with those characteristics.  This tool is a handy way to answer questions from friends, family, interested parties at a tabling event or presentation, or potential supporters who need a clearer idea of how the Carbon Fee and Dividend works. It can be used to create case studies for households in a particular Congressional District or town and can also be used to find out how certain lifestyle change will affect your bottom line under our policy.

Join Meighen Speiser, ecoAmerica’s Chief Engagement Officer, and Paige Fery, Research Manager for “Let’s Talk Communities & Climate,” a webinar that equips local leaders with the tools to effectively engage their communities on climate change and solutions.   This webinar is the second of two segments, covering specific climate communication techniques that resonate with Americans and motivate communities to engage and act on climate.    

Join Meighen Speiser, ecoAmerica’s Chief Engagement Officer, to cover the quick overview of ecoAmerica's American Climate Values, Awareness, Concerns and Attitudes about Climate Change and Leadership. This webinar is the first of two segments, covering ecoAmerica's history and research focuses, ahead of part two covering the specific climate communication techniques that resonate with Americans and motivate communities to engage and act on climate.

Audio Only: Want to learn what other chapters around the country are doing to engage their communities through their online social media and websites?  Jump into building up your chapter’s Facebook page following, begin personalizing your own chapter website with CCL’s tool or beyond and learn the process of setting up for, promoting, and hosting one of your events with Facebook Live. Join CCL group and team leaders Breanna Cooke, Nathan Grey, John Gage, and Claire Kennington in a webinar that will allow you to discover best practices that other groups have found in their online campaigns as well as the tips and tricks they have for generating more engagement and what mistakes to avoid.

Audio Only: This webinar features Mike Lavender, the Senior Washington Representative for the Union of Concerned Scientists. The farming sector has consolidated profoundly over the last several decades, which has had widespread negative consequences on communities across America. Lavender’s talk focuses on how the 2018 farm bill can reverse the downward trend in rural America by investing in all farmers and in local and regional food systems.

Day Zero is coming to Cape Town, South Africa. What happens when a city of four million people runs out of water? Our host, Peterson Toscano, chats with two Cape Town residents, Helen Moffett and Judy Abrahams. Together they explore "Day Zero," the day when their city will turn off the water to the taps. Discover the multiple causes of this crisis and the role climate change has played. Hear about the responses, both the ugly and the beautiful. Funny, insightful, and well informed, Helen and Judy talk about many aspects of the crisis that are being overlooked in the media. Puzzler Question and Art House The story of the water crisis is so big we will share the many answers to the popular puzzler question next month when writer Claire Vaye Watkins talks about her cli-fi novel--Gold Fame Citrus. Dig Deeper Helen Moffett's Blog about the Water Crisis and more Industrial Development Corporation, Project Funding Company where Judy Abrahams works Ten Good Things about Cape Town's Drought by Patrick Dowling  Cape Town Water Crisis Wikipedia Page Itzapala, Mexico City Water Crisis Listen, Rate, and Share! You can hear Citizens’ Climate Radio on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, Podbean, Northern Spirit Radio, Google Play, PlayerFM, and TuneIn Radio. Also, feel free to connect with other listeners, suggest program ideas, and respond to programs in the Citizens’ Climate Radio Facebook group or on Twitter at @CitizensCRadio. If you listen on iTunes, please consider rating and reviewing us! All music is royalty free and purchased thorough PremiumBeat.com and AudioBlocks

  Audio Only: This webinar features Keith Alverson, a board member of the South Dakota Farmer and National Corn Growers Association. The presentation shares Keith’s experience with farming practices that have sequestered carbon in his farm’s soils, their relation to soil health and the economics of his farm. The discussion will also cover some of the work the National Corn Growers Association is doing on soil health and climate. Keith also operates a sixth-generation farm near Chester, South Dakota, growing corn and soybeans on 2,700 acres. You can read about his farm at CarbonHarmony.org.

Our February guest was Celia Paris, Assistant Professor in Political Science at Loyola University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores whether Madisonian ideals for deliberative and collaborative political decision-making have lost their appeal. Titled Madison’s ABCs: Why the Public Still Values Accomplishment, Bipartisanship, and Civility in Congress, her book argues that the desire for a more Madisonian approach to politics remains alive and well in the American public and that citizens value accomplishment, bipartisanship, and civility.

Audio Only: Have you ever been in a place where you’ve agreed to do things that you didn’t do? Similarly, have you ever been on the other side of this equation, where someone has agreed to do something to help your group but that doesn’t happen? This webinar provides support, perspective and ideas for responding to these situations in a manner that embodies the CCL values of relationships, personal power, integrity and optimism. Join CCL Pacific Northwest Regional Coordinator and Integral Life Coach Tamara Staton for advice on what to consider before, during and after having these conversations. If we are intentional about our responses and aware of what comes up for us when a miscommunication happens, it’s more than possible to respond in a supportive manner that inspires action.

  Have you ever been in a place where you’ve agreed to do things that you didn’t do? Similarly, have you ever been on the other side of this equation, where someone has agreed to do something to help your group but that doesn’t happen? This webinar provides support, perspective and ideas for responding to these situations in a manner that embodies the CCL values of relationships, personal power, integrity and optimism. Join CCL Pacific Northwest Regional Coordinator and Integral Life Coach Tamara Staton for advice on what to consider before, during and after having these conversations. If we are intentional about our responses and aware of what comes up for us when a miscommunication happens, it’s more than possible to respond in a supportive manner that inspires action.

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, and Joe Robertson, CCL's Global Strategy Director. This session of Citizens’ Climate University covers what is going on around the world in ​CCL's​ network in 2018, what other countries are doing in terms of carbon pricing and citizen engagement, and how CCL is engaging in international civil society meetings.

Audio Only: 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, and Joe Robertson, CCL's Global Strategy Director. This session of Citizens’ Climate University covers what is going on around the world in ​CCL's​ network in 2018, what other countries are doing in terms of carbon pricing and citizen engagement, and how CCL is engaging in international civil society meetings.