Audience: Low-Income Communities

The United States is one of the largest energy consumers per capita, requiring households to have adequate energy expenditures to keep up with modern demand regardless of financial cost. This paper investigates energy burden, defined as the ratio of household energy expenditures to household income.

This session focuses on preventing doxxing attacks and protecting personal information that could be used to target climate advocates.

Winning climate campaigns requires understanding the public to make strategic, data-driven decisions and capture the public narrative. This training is for advocates who understand the basics of public opinion research but want more concrete guidance on how to work with polling researchers to inform your campaigns and communications.

As the Trump administration targets climate advocacy and the clean energy economy, waves of federal layoffs and funding restrictions continue, and nonprofits are hit by the looming recession, many people in The Lab’s community are looking for new jobs. We’re here to support you!

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.

This training will equip you with tools to navigate collective grief, channel climate emotions into action, and nurture healthier, more connected communities.

Young people are not just the future of the climate movement—they are leading it today. This session is designed to equip youth activists with the skills and confidence to step into leadership roles and drive meaningful change.

Up your impact this session and learn advanced techniques for educating policymakers, drawn from a comprehensive review of research. This training builds on our “101”-level content (https://www.climateadvocacylab.org/policymaker-contact), and we recommend reviewing that material prior to participating.

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.

Join us for an hour as we dive into best practices of recruitment strategies and how to foster entry points for new people in your organization.

A campaign playbook: “How Richmond Made Polluters Pay” — documenting the Richmond coalition’s lessons learned and recommendations for other communities near extractive industries to build a ballot measure campaign. We hope that some of the lessons learned from our campaign will be helpful to other refinery communities.