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Films about climate change and clean energy provide a powerful platform to deepen our understanding and emotional connection to the issue, and also bring people together in community and conversation. (Check out recent Lab alerts on the importance of visuals* and narrative* for additional context!)
Last week, Lab members came together for a Peer Learning Exchange on using film to engage new audiences on climate change* to share what they are learning about how to tell the story of climate change in a way that motivates viewers to take meaningful action.

For climate advocates to produce the wins we need in the long run and take advantage of the surge of enthusiasm we have at the moment, we need to move beyond single-click, transactional models of building power. While distributed and relational organizing that fosters sustained engagement from supporters may well be the oldest and most effective form of activism, new technologies and techniques never hurt. Today’s alert is the second part of the Lab’s readout from last month’s Campaign and Advocacy Tech conferences (see our overview of new tools and tech* from the events).

Following last week’s devastating news that more than 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died as a result of Hurricane Maria, this week’s Lab alert shares the latest on what we know about how Americans’ climate opinions are affected by extreme weather events. The below can help campaigners as you plan responses to the inevitable extreme weather events to come this year, and we also flag potential new approaches worth exploring in the field.