Environmental/Climate Justice

Join us for Winning Jobs Narrative Deep Dive Workshop – From Valuing Work to Advancing Change to build practical skills in applying the narrative while connecting with advocates across the progressive movement. In this three-hour virtual workshop, led by progressive leaders driving change across diverse issues, geographies, and audiences, you’ll explore how the narrative applies to your priorities and learn evidence-based messaging strategies to make progress on your goals.

Join us for Winning Jobs Narrative Deep Dive Workshop – From Valuing Work to Advancing Change to build practical skills in applying the narrative while connecting with advocates across the progressive movement. In this three-hour virtual workshop, led by progressive leaders driving change across diverse issues, geographies, and audiences, you’ll explore how the narrative applies to your priorities and learn evidence-based messaging strategies to make progress on your goals.

Join us for Winning Jobs Narrative Deep Dive Workshop – From Valuing Work to Advancing Change to build practical skills in applying the narrative while connecting with advocates across the progressive movement. In this three-hour virtual workshop, led by progressive leaders driving change across diverse issues, geographies, and audiences, you’ll explore how the narrative applies to your priorities and learn evidence-based messaging strategies to make progress on your goals.

Join us for Winning Jobs Narrative Deep Dive Workshop – From Valuing Work to Advancing Change to build practical skills in applying the narrative while connecting with advocates across the progressive movement. In this three-hour virtual workshop, led by progressive leaders driving change across diverse issues, geographies, and audiences, you’ll explore how the narrative applies to your priorities and learn evidence-based messaging strategies to make progress on your goals.

We Make the Future’s Climate Cohort is laying the foundation for sustained movement-building, rooted in a multi-state, multiracial coalition of organizers and activists. Together, they are pushing forward on climate justice. Their climate narrative work seeks to expand how people understand the impact of climate disaster on everyday people and push back on those fossil fuel backed leaders who stand in the way. Together, they are creating an America where to protect air and water, share in economic prosperity, and build bridges across differences. Good jobs in clean industries, protecting our families’ and children’s health is something that unites all members. This page of resources includes videos and advocacy guides on topics such as post-disaster climate migration messaging, climate justice messaging, climate justice digital toolkits, and more.

Explore the strategies the Climate & Clean Energy Equity Fund is deploying across states and community-based organizations. These policy resources are designed to help simplify climate and clean energy issues. Issue categories include: Building Decarbonization; Clean Energy Transition; Climate Resilience, Recovery, and Response; Environmental Justice; Federal Implementation Projects and Campaigns; Fossil Fuel Transition, Pipelines, and Mining; Just Transition for Workers; Public Service Commissions & Utility Accountability; Transportation & Transit Access and Affordability.

Real inclusive organizing should include incorporating disability into values or action statements, having disabled people on the organizing committee or board, making accessibility a priority from day one, and listening to feedback from disabled people. Here’s a starter checklist for accessibility, from your website to the day of the event. Make your website accessible: e.g., use high contrast and consider using a tool to allow users to switch from dark-on-light to light-on-dark. Create an access plan: e.g., vet your facilities. Make your event policies disability-friendly: e.g., include disabled people in your leadership, organization, scheduled speakers and panelists, imagery, and documentation.

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.

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.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls - including a new edition of Yale and GMU’s long-running “Climate Change in the American Mind” study, new polling about Trump’s early actions on energy and the environment, and new polling about clean energy incentives and federal environmental programs.