Audience: Environmental 'Base'

 
Join the Climate Advocacy Lab for a Peer Learning Exchange on how leaders across the climate movement are relating to Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

A Climate Advocacy Lab training focused on the latest climate justice messaging research, our recommendations, and how to apply them to your work, including:

An overview of what polling research reveals about what Americans across communities understand (and don’t) about the connection between climate change and social justice;
What message testing tells us about the most engaging ways to talk about climate justice, such as by leveraging “moral emotions;” and
How to avoid triggering backfire, and the situations in which focusing on climate injustice may—or may not—increase support for addressing it.

 By blending elements of science fiction, fantasy, technology, and ancestral traditions, Afrofuturism challenges and reshapes narratives of Black identity and liberation. Today, we explore how Afrofuturism intersects with Juneteenth, inspiring us to reimagine our relationship with nature and forge a path towards environmental harmony. 

Like many of you, the Lab team has been exploring how we can best support the climate movement at this critical moment, with nearly a trillion dollars on the table to reshape the climate and energy landscape following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),  Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and CHIPS & Science Act. Simultaneously, we know communities across the country continue to suffer from the impacts and fight build-out of the extractive, polluting fossil fuel industry – including many of my neighbors across the Southeast, calling on President Biden to oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

When the Training Team was given the task of building out our Training for Impact Spring 2023 cohort, my wheels immediately started turning; my thoughts kept bringing me to my own experience as a brand new organizer in the climate justice space. Thinking about my own experience and how trainings, peer-to-peer learning, and relationship opportunities supported me in my journey as an organizer and an advocate, I was so excited to build out a program that encapsulated those key aspects with the Lab’s Training Team. Read on to learn how we built out the 2023 Training For Impact cohort!