Audience: Environmental 'Base'

Finding “bright spots”, or models of success, can inspire and inform change. Today we’re sharing highlights from a Lab case study about how funders and local organizers and advocates built an inclusive and powerful climate movement in Minnesota that resulted in wins such as the state’s 2023 100% clean energy law.

Through stories and reflections from the Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle, we’ll explore how health leaders are building power, reshaping narratives, and advancing climate solutions through a health equity lens.

In this session, hear directly from health professionals leading climate action across the country. Through stories and reflections from the Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle, we’ll explore how health leaders are building power, reshaping narratives, and advancing climate solutions through a health equity lens.

Over the last few months we have been hosting trainings on cybersecurity, and a lot of folks have asked about cloud storage and how to navigate the options in a secure way. We’ll walk you through the pitfalls to watch out for and options you have for securing your assets.

Over the last four years, the Potential Energy Coalition has gathered a significant amount of data on how Americans are engaging with climate issues—what’s on their minds, what does and does not motivate them to act, whom we can move and how. In this pivotal moment, this data can offer crucial insights to inform and strengthen our collective work. During this session hosted by the Lab, Potential Energy will share their recent findings, and discuss where they see the biggest opportunities to advance climate action.

This session prepares climate advocates to respond effectively to security incidents while creating lasting organizational security practices.

This session prepares climate advocates to respond effectively to security incidents while creating lasting organizational security practices.

In these times, I’ve found myself called back to the words of Dean Spade in his 2020 book, Mutual Aid. The book opens with Spade’s reflections on mutual aid where he shares:
“Mutual Aid has been a part of all large, powerful social movements, and it has a particularly important role to play right now, as we face unprecedented dangers and opportunities for mobilization. Mutual aid gives people a way to plug into movements based on their immediate concerns, and it produces social spaces where people grow new solidarities. At its best, mutual aid actually produces new ways of living where people get to create systems of care and generality that address harms and foster well-being.”

What lies beneath concerns about offshore wind projects and whale endangerment? How can organizing programs build empathy and persuade? And could it be that civic engagement is the answer to ALL of our ills? Recently we published a report that attempts to address some of these questions.

Communities of color have long been at the forefront of environmental and climate justice movements—yet their voices are too often marginalized within larger advocacy spaces. This session is designed to center and uplift BIPOC advocates by exploring strategies to amplify their leadership, create inclusive organizing structures, and build durable, supportive networks within the climate movement.