Audience: African Americans

Learn how to address eco-anxiety using evidence-based psychological frameworks, empowering yourself and your networks to build resilience, foster hope, and sustain long-term engagement in the fight for climate justice.

Following our training “Recruitment and Retention: Building Your Base and Keeping Folks Around,” this tip sheet offers practical guidance on how to bring new people into your work and keep them engaged over time.

The Climate Advocacy Lab seeks to provide a comprehensive archive of research and insights for the movement. By keeping our ear to the ground, receiving submissions from you all, and scouring over 69 academic journals, we have added 459 polls, case studies, social science papers and other resources published in 2024 to our Resource Library. To help you make sense of them all, we’ve highlighted some of the most notable trends and individual resources below. Read the whole roundup on our site, with additional sections covering the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy, public opinion, and perceptions of activism.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new findings about the 2024 electorate’s views on climate change and clean energy.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on polluter accountability and new polls of Black voters and young Americans.

Earlier this month, I traveled to Lumberton, NC for the North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC)’s quarterly convening of Resiliency Organizing Hub leaders. The Lumberton area was hit by devastating floods from back-to-back hurricanes in 2017 and 2018, displacing thousands and prompting critical conversations about how to build both more resilient infrastructure and more resilient communities.
In the face of worsening, climate-fueled extreme weather and the ongoing threat of extractive industries, local organizations like the Robeson County Cooperative for Sustainable Development (RCCSD) are providing direct relief, pushing for a more “just recovery,” and organizing people to “fight the bad” and “build the good.” (Bonus content: Check out RCCSD’s climate justice microgrant project, detailing lessons learned from the successful campaign to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline*!)
NCCJC is one of the Lab’s newest strategic partners, and we’ve had the privilege of working closely together over the past year in support of their place-based organizing work! In this week’s newsletter, we’re excited to share more information about NCCJC’s Resiliency Organizing Hub and anchor organizations, as well as some reflections and early learnings from our partnership work so far.